1. Spoken from the Heart - by Laura Bush

Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/04/2010
ISBN-13: 9781439155202
ISBN-10: 1439155208

A memoir from the former first lady.

First Chapter

2. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - by Michael Lewis

Publisher: W.W. Norton
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/15/2010
ISBN-13: 9780393072235
ISBN-10: 0393072231

The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight.

3. This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection - by Carol Burnett

Publisher: Harmony Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/06/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307461186
ISBN-10: 0307461181

The comedian describes her rise in show business and the people she’s met along the way.

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4. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang - by Chelsea Handler

Publisher: Grand Central
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/09/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446552448
ISBN-10: 0446552445

More humorous personal essays from the comedian.

5. Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps - edited by Dave Isay

Publisher: Penguin Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/15/2010
ISBN-13: 9781594202612
ISBN-10: 1594202613

A collection of interviews from NPR’s StoryCorps.

6. Oprah: A Biography - by Kitty Kelley

Publisher: Crown Publishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/13/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307394866
ISBN-10: 0307394867

The biography, from the author of Nancy Reagan and His Way.

7. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - by Nathaniel Philbrick

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/04/2010
ISBN-13: 9780670021727
ISBN-10: 0670021725

Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

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8. ---- My Dad Says - by Justin Halpern

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

A coming-of-age memoir organized around the musings, purveyed on Twitter, of the author’s father.

9. My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover if Not Being a Dumb Ass is the New Black, or A Culture-Up Manifesto - by Jen Lancaster

Publisher: New American Library
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/04/2010
ISBN-13: 9780451229861
ISBN-10: 045122986X

The author of Pretty in Plaid makes a humorous attempt to broaden her cultural horizons.

10. Lift - by Kelly Corrigan

Publisher: Voice
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.

11. 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.

12. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee - by Sarah Silverman

Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/20/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061856433
ISBN-10: 0061856436

A humorous, yet sometimes serious, memoir from the comedian.

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13. 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 the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951.

First Chapter

14. Outliers - 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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15. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates - by Wes Moore

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/27/2010
ISBN-13: 9780385528191
ISBN-10: 0385528191

A tale of two Wes Moores living in Baltimore: one, the author, a Rhodes scholar, combat veteran and former White House fellow; the other, a man serving a life sentence in prison.

First Chapter Table of Contents

These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the May 23 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending May 8, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.