1. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime - by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/11/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061733635
ISBN-10: 0061733636

Behind the scenes at the 2008 election with Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John and Elizabeth Edwards, John McCain and Sarah Palin.

2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - by Rebecca Skloot

Publisher: Crown Publishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9781400052172
ISBN-10: 1400052173

Race, poverty and science intertwine in the story of the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951 and have supported a mountain of research undertaken since then.

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3. I Am Ozzy - by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres

Publisher: Grand Central
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/25/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446569897
ISBN-10: 0446569895

Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.”

4. The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal that Brought Him Down - by Andrew Young

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/30/2010
ISBN-13: 9780312640651
ISBN-10: 031264065X

A tell-all by John Edwards’s closest aide.

5. Have a Little Faith: A True Story - by Mitch Albom

Publisher: Hyperion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/29/2009
ISBN-13: 9780786868728
ISBN-10: 0786868724

A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.

6. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - by Atul Gawande

Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/22/2009
ISBN-13: 9780805091748
ISBN-10: 0805091742

Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues.

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7. Outliers: The Story of Success - by Malcolm Gladwell

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/18/2008
ISBN-13: 9780316017923
ISBN-10: 0316017922

Why some people succeed, from the author of Blink.

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8. Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend - by James S. Hirsch

Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/09/2010
ISBN-13: 9781416547907
ISBN-10: 1416547908

The life and career of a baseball legend.

9. Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage - by Elizabeth Gilbert

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/05/2010
ISBN-13: 9780670021659
ISBN-10: 0670021652

The author of Eat, Pray, Love wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.

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10. Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan - by Greg Mortenson

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780670021154
ISBN-10: 0670021156

Building schools, many of them for girls, in northeast Afghanistan; takes up where Three Cups of Tea left off.

11. Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat - by David Dosa

Publisher: Hyperion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9781401323233
ISBN-10: 1401323235

A nursing-home cat who comforts patients when death is near.

12. On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System - by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

Publisher: Grand Central
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446561938
ISBN-10: 0446561932

The Treasury secretary during the financial meltdown describes the decisions that were made.

13. Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us - by Daniel H. Pink

Publisher: Riverhead Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/29/2009
ISBN-13: 9781594488849
ISBN-10: 1594488843

What really motivates people is the quest for autonomy, mastery and purpose, not external rewards.

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14. Making Toast: A Family Story - by Roger Rosenblatt

Publisher: Ecco
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/16/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061825934
ISBN-10: 006182593X

The writer and his wife help to raise their grandchildren after the sudden death of their 38-year-old daughter.

15. Staying True - by Jenny Sanford

Publisher: Ballantine Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/05/2010
ISBN-13: 9780345522399
ISBN-10: 0345522397

The ups and downs of life with South Carolina’s Gov. Mark Sanford, by his estranged wife.

These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 14 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending February 27, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.