Inside the List
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
Sammy Hagar may have lost his job fronting Van Halen, but he zooms to the top of the hardcover nonfiction list this week with “Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock.”
April 03, 2011
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Sammy Hagar may have lost his job fronting Van Halen, but he zooms to the top of the hardcover nonfiction list this week with “Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock.”
This Week | Last Week | Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction | Weeks on List |
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1 | 1 | HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson.) A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an emergency appendectomy. | 8 | |
2 | 2 | UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House.) An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. | 8 | |
3 | 3 | THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. (Crown.) The story of a woman whose cancer cells were extensively cultured without her permission in 1951. | 8 | |
4 | RED, by Sammy Hagar. (HarperCollins.) Hagar tells of his tear through rock, from his first break with Montrose to his role as the front man of Van Halen. | 1 | ||
5 | 5 | MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN, by Joshua Foer. (Penguin Group.) A journalist who covered a mnemonics championship tries competing himself. | 2 | |
6 | 4 | THE SOCIAL ANIMAL, by David Brooks. (Random House.) Brooks creates two imaginary people, Harold and Erica, to illustrate his understanding of the human mind, the wellsprings of action and the causes of success and failure. | 2 | |
7 | 6 | DECISION POINTS, by George W. Bush. (Crown.) The former president’s memoir discusses his Christianity and the end of his drinking; his relationships with members of his family; and critical White House decisions on 9/11, Iraq and Katrina. | 8 | |
8 | JESUS OF NAZARETH, by Joseph Ratzinger. (Ignatius Press.) Pope Benedict XVI challenges readers to grapple with the meaning of Jesus’ life. | 1 | ||
9 | PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE, by Michio Kaku. (Knopf Doubleday.) An examination of innovative developments in medicine, computers, quantum physics and space travel. | 1 | ||
10 | 8 | CLEOPATRA, by Stacy Schiff. (Little, Brown.) This biography portrays the Macedonian-Egyptian queen in all her ambition, audacity and formidable intelligence. | 8 | |
11 | 13 | INSIDE OF A DOG, by Alexandra Horowitz. (Simon & Schuster.) What the world is like from a dog’s point of view. | 8 | |
12 | 14 | THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Simon & Schuster.) The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved from place to place. | 8 | |
13 | 10 | BLOOD, BONES, AND BUTTER, by Gabrielle Hamilton. (Random House.) A memoir by the chef and owner of the Manhattan restaurant Prune. | 3 | |
14 | 9 | THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton.) The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight. | 8 | |
15 | THE THE DRESSMAKER OF KHAIR KHANA, by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. (HarperCollins.) Aan unlikely Afghan entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban. | 1 | ||