1. ---- 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.

2. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook - by Anthony Bourdain

Publisher: Ecco
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/08/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061718946
ISBN-10: 0061718947

The author of Kitchen Confidential looks critically both at the changes in the food and restaurant culture in the past ten years and at the people responsible for them.

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3. 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.

4. 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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5. 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.

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6. War - by Sebastian Junger

Publisher: Twelve
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/11/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446556248
ISBN-10: 0446556246

The intense lives of American soldiers in a lethal corner of Afghanistan, by the author of The Perfect Storm.

7. 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.

8. Uncharted TerriTORI - by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin

Publisher: Gallery Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/15/2010
ISBN-13: 9781439187715
ISBN-10: 1439187711

Humorous stories about juggling Hollywood work, marriage and motherhood, from the author of Mommywood and star of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.

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9. 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.

10. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted: Boost Your Brain to Improve Your Weight, Skin, Heart, Energy, and Focus - by Daniel G. Amen

Publisher: Harmony Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/16/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307463579
ISBN-10: 0307463575

Using the brain-body connection to lose weight and avoid depression.

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11. Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball - by Bill Madden

Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/11/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061690310
ISBN-10: 0061690317

A biography of the New York Yankees owner.

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12. 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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13. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory - by Ben Macintyre

Publisher: Harmony Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/04/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307453273
ISBN-10: 0307453278

The British ruse that employed a corpse to fool the Nazis about the invasion of Sicily.

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14. Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century - by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger

Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/15/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061562846
ISBN-10: 006156284X

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton: the affair, the marriage, the divorce, the remarriage.

15. Hitch-22: A Memoir - by Christopher Hitchens

Publisher: Twelve
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446540339
ISBN-10: 0446540331

The trans-Atlantic journalist’s memoir.

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These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 4 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending June 19, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.