1. 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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2. 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.

3. 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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4. Going Rogue: An American Life - by Sarah Palin

Publisher: HarperCollins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/17/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061939891
ISBN-10: 0061939897

A memoir by the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate.

5. 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.

6. 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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7. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance - by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Publisher: William Morrow
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9780060889579
ISBN-10: 0060889578

A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel.

8. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures - by Malcolm Gladwell

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316075848
ISBN-10: 0316075841

A decade of New Yorker essays.

9. 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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10. Open: An Autobiography - by Andre Agassi

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/09/2009
ISBN-13: 9780307268198
ISBN-10: 0307268195

The tennis champion’s autobiography.

11. Anticancer: A New Way of Life - by David Servan-Schreiber

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/31/2009
ISBN-13: 9780670021642
ISBN-10: 0670021644

A doctor who survived brain cancer discusses his experience and reviews research about diet and mind-body balance.

12. Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government - written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, and others

Publisher: Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/22/2009
ISBN-13: 9781416595014
ISBN-10: 1416595015

The case against big government.

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13. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves - by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9780670021253
ISBN-10: 0670021253

The 2008 financial implosion on Wall Street and in Washington, by a New York Times reporter and columnist.

14. All Things at Once - by Mika Brzezinski

Publisher: Weinstein Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/05/2010
ISBN-13: 9781602861114
ISBN-10: 1602861110

How the MSNBC newswoman combines being a wife, mother and journalist.

15. True Compass: A Memoir - by Edward M. Kennedy

Publisher: Twelve
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/14/2009
ISBN-13: 9780446539258
ISBN-10: 0446539252

The late senator's autobiography.

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These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the January 24 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending January 9, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.