1. No Apology: The Case for American Greatness - by Mitt Romney

Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9780312609801
ISBN-10: 0312609809

The former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate calls for economic and civic revitalization.

2. Lift: Children, Turbulence, Life - by Kelly Corrigan

Publisher: Voice/Hyperion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9781401341244
ISBN-10: 1401341241

Stories about parenting, written as a letter to the author’s daughters.

3. 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.

4. Not Without Hope - by Nick Schuyler and Jeré Longman

Publisher: William Morrow
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061993992
ISBN-10: 0061993999

A man survives a deep-sea fishing trip gone terribly wrong.

5. 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.

First Chapter

6. No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller - by Harry Markopolos with others

Publisher: Wiley
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/22/2010
ISBN-13: 9780470553732
ISBN-10: 0470553731

The man who blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff and was ignored.

First Chapter Table of Contents

7. The Pacific - by Hugh Ambrose

Publisher: NAL Caliber
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9780451230232
ISBN-10: 045123023X

Stories of Marines and a Navy pilot during World War II; companion volume for an HBO mini-series.

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. 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.

10. 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.

First Chapter Table of Contents

11. Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices - by Mosab Hassan Yousef with Ron Brackin

Publisher: SaltRiver
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9781414333076
ISBN-10: 1414333072

The son of a Hamas founder converts to Christianity and emigrates to the United States.

12. 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.”

13. 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.

First Chapter

14. 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.

15. 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.

These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 21 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending March 5, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.