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New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
September 28, 2014
1. What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe

Scientific (but often humorous) answers to hypothetical questions, based in part on the author's website, xkcd.com.
2. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi
by Mitchell Zuckoff with Members of the Annex Security Team

Six C.I.A. contract employees discuss their experience during the attack on the State Department compound and the nearby C.I.A. station called the "annex" in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.
3. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
by Sam Harris

This exploration of consciousness by the author of The End of Faith proposes that spirituality can and should be divorced from religion.
4. World Order
by Henry Kissinger

The elder statesman offers a view of how to build an international order in today's world.
5. Diary of a Mad Diva
by Joan Rivers

Humorous reflections about life, pop culture and celebrities.
6. UnPHILtered: The Way I See It
by Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach

What the Duck Commander (from the A&E show Duck Dynasty) really thinks about various topics.
7. One Nation: What We Can Do to Save America's Future
by Ben Carson with Candy Carson

Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems.
8. Off The Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World
by Kirsten Gillibrand

The New York senator tells her personal story and urges women to become more involved in politics.
9. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
by Hampton Sides

An 1879 polar voyage gone terribly wrong.
10. The Roosevelts:  An Intimate History
by Geoffrey C. Ward qnd Ken Burns

A companion volume to the PBS series examines the lives of Theodore, Eleanor and Franklin.
11. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
by Daniel J. Levitin

A professor draws on research in neuroscience to explain how organization can help us manage information in our lives.
12. America: Imagine a World Without Her
by Dinesh D'Souza

A defense of America against the view that its power in the world should be diminished; also a documentary film.
13. I'll Drink to That: A Life in Fashion, Straight, No Chaser
by Betty Halbreich with Rebecca Paley

iA memoir of life in sophisticated New York by Bergdorf Goodman's legendary personal shopper.
14. Elvis and Ginger: Elvis Presley's Fiancée and Last Love Finally Tells Her Story
by Ginger Alden

Elvis Presley's last love describes their relationship.
15. Dataclysm: Our Life in Numbers
by Christian Rudder

What data from social media reveal about human nature.
16. Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
by Charles Krauthammer

Three decades' worth of essays from the conservative columnist.
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A version of this list appears in the September 28, 2014 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 13, 2014.


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