1. Unbroken: A World War II Airman's Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - by Laura Hillenbrand

Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/16/2010
ISBN-13: 9781400064168
ISBN-10: 1400064163

An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

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2. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - by Amy Chua

Publisher: Penguin Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/11/2011
ISBN-13: 9781594202841
ISBN-10: 1594202842

A Chinese-American mother makes a case for strict and demanding parenting.

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3. The Next Decade: Where We've Been...and Where We're Going - by George Friedman

Publisher: Doubleday
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/25/2011
ISBN-13: 9780385532945
ISBN-10: 0385532946

The geopolitical forecaster who wrote The Next 100 Years details the enormous transition he expects over the coming ten.

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4. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos - by Brian Greene

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/25/2011
ISBN-13: 9780307265630
ISBN-10: 0307265633

A physicist explains various theories involving the existence of parallel universes.

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5. Cleopatra: A Life - by Stacy Schiff

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780316001922
ISBN-10: 0316001929

The last queen of ancient Egypt was ambitious, audacious and formidably intelligent.

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6. Decision Points - by George W. Bush

Publisher: Crown Publishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/09/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307590619
ISBN-10: 0307590615

The former president’s memoir discusses his Christianity and the end of his drinking; his relationships with members of his family; and his decisions on 9/11, Iraq and Katrina.

7. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 - by Mark Twain; edited by Harriet Elinor Smith

Publisher: University of California Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/15/2010
ISBN-13: 9780520267190
ISBN-10: 0520267192

In his autobiography, published unexpurgated for the first time, Twain is pointedly political and willing to play the angry prophet.

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8. 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

The story of a woman whose cancer cells were extensively cultured without her permission in 1951.

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9. Life - by Keith Richards with James Fox

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/26/2010
ISBN-13: 9780316034388
ISBN-10: 031603438X

The Rolling Stones guitarist's revealing autobiography is also a portrait of the era when rock 'n' roll came of age.

10. Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal - by James D. Hornfischer

Publisher: Bantam Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/25/2011
ISBN-13: 9780553806700
ISBN-10: 055380670X

A history of the U.S.-Japanese naval battles during the Guadalcanal campaign of 1942, a turning point in the Pacific war, featuring portraits of men in extremis.

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11. Decoded - by Jay-Z

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/16/2010
ISBN-13: 9781400068920
ISBN-10: 1400068924

The hip-hop star leads a narrative journey through his lyrics and his life.

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12. 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--it has to do with luck and opportunity--from the author of Blink.

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13. Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture - by Peggy Orenstein

Publisher: HarperCollins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/25/2011
ISBN-13: 9780061711527
ISBN-10: 0061711527

An open-ended critique of the multibillion-dollar "princess industrial complex."

14. ____ My Dad Says - by Justin Halpern

Publisher: It Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/04/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061992704
ISBN-10: 0061992704

A memoir organized around the musings, purveyed on Twitter, of the author's father.

15. ________ Finish First - by Tucker Max

Publisher: Gallery Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/28/2010
ISBN-13: 9781416938743
ISBN-10: 1416938745

Stories of bad decisions, debauchery and sexual recklessness.

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These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the February 13, 2011 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending January 30, 2011, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.