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 | Combined Hardcover & Paperback Nonfiction | Weeks on List |
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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. | ||
2 | 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. | ||
3 | 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. | ||
4 | UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House.) An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. | ||
5 | MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN, by Joshua Foer. (Penguin Group.) A journalist who covered a mnemonics championship tries competing himself. | ||
6 | 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. | ||
7 | JESUS OF NAZARETH, by Joseph Ratzinger. (Ignatius.) Pope Benedict XVI challenges readers to grapple with the meaning of Jesus’ life. | ||
8 | INSIDE OF A DOG, by Alexandra Horowitz. (Simon & Schuster.) What the world is like from a dog’s point of view. | ||
9 | 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. | ||
10 | PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE, by Michio Kaku. (Knopf Doubleday.) An examination of innovative developments in medicine, computers, quantum physics and space travel. | ||
11 | CLEOPATRA, by Stacy Schiff. (Little, Brown.) This biography portrays the Macedonian-Egyptian queen in all her ambition, audacity and formidable intelligence. | ||
12 | THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton.) The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight. | ||
13 | BLOOD, BONES, AND BUTTER, by Gabrielle Hamilton. (Random House.) A memoir by the chef and owner of the Manhattan restaurant Prune. | ||
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. | ||
15 | A SIMPLE GOVERNMENT, by Mike Huckabee. (Penguin Group.) The ex-governor of Arkansas proposes 12 things he says Americans need from the federal government. (†) | ||
16 | THE INFORMATION, by James Gleick. (Knopf Doubleday.) An exploration of information technologies that changed the nature of human consciousness. | ||
17 | THE KING’S SPEECH, by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi. (Sterling.) A therapist helps the man who became King George VI lose his stammer. | ||
18 | BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER, by Amy Chua. (Penguin Group.) A Chinese-American mother makes a case for strict and demanding parenting. | ||
19 | JUST KIDS, by Patti Smith. (HarperCollins.) The godmother of punk recalls her time with Robert Mapplethorpe and their yearnings for a life in art. | ||
20 | TOWNIE, by Andre Dubus III. (Norton.) In this memoir, Dubus explores his attachment to violence and his relationship with his famous father. | ||
21 | RAWHIDE DOWN, by Del Quentin Wilber. (Holt.) An account of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. | ||
22 | OPERATION FAMILY SECRETS, by Frank Calabrese Jr. with Kieth & Kent Zimmerman and Paul Pompian. (Crown.) The story of Chicago’s Calabrese crime family, told by an insider who cooperated with the F.B.I. | ||
23 | LIFE, by Keith Richards with James Fox. (Little, Brown.) The Rolling Stones guitarist’s revealing autobiography is also a portrait of the era when rock ‘n’ roll came of age, with the music itself at the book’s core. | ||
24 | 56 (JOE DIMAGGIO AND THE LAST MAGIC NUMBER IN SPORTS), by Kostya Kennedy. (Time.) | ||
25 | ENDGAME, by John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper. (Wiley.) How the "debt supercycle" is adversely affecting developing countries around the world, including the United States. | ||
26 | KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, by Donald Rumsfeld. (Penguin Group.) The former defense secretary’s memoir discusses his role in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. | ||
27 | OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown.) Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent; from the author of “Blink” and “The Tipping Point.” | ||
28 | THE THE DRESSMAKER OF KHAIR KHANA, by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. (HarperCollins.) Aan unlikely Afghan entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban. | ||
29 | THE BOY WHO CAME BACK FROM HEAVEN, by Kevin Malarkey and Alex Malarkey. (Tyndale House.) A boy who awoke from a coma two months after a car accident had an incredible story to share. | ||
30 | 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. (Baker.) A minister on the otherworldly experience he had after an accident. | ||
31 | REVOLT!, by Dick Morris. (HarperCollins.) A "patriot’s guide” for opposing the policies of Obama. | ||
32 | _____ FINISH FIRST, by Tucker Max. (Simon & Schuster.) Stories of bad decisions, debauchery and sexual recklessness. | ||
33 | I BEAT THE ODDS, by Michael Oher with Don Yaeger. (Penguin Group.) The Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle describes how he broke out of the tough streets of Memphis. | ||
34 | AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN, VOL. 1, by Mark Twain. (University of California.) Twain is pointedly political and willing to play the angry prophet. | ||
35 | WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown.) A decade of Gladwell’s New Yorker essays. | ||