Top 10 Non fiction Books, November 2nd, 2008
In this week’s top 10 list, Warren Buffet’s bio has been relegated to the second place. Let’s check the list:
1 AGAINST MEDICAL ADVISE, by James Patterson and Hal Friedman. (Little, Brown, $26.99.) A family’s struggle to get treatment for their son’s Tourette’s syndrome.
2 THE SNOWBALL, by Alice Schroeder. (Bantam, $35.) The life of Warren Buffett.
3 DEWEY, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter. (Grand Central, $19.99.) The kitten left freezing in the returned-book slot of an Iowa public library and his rise to fame.
4 MY STROKE OF INSIGHT
, by Jill Bolte Taylor. (Viking, $24.95.) A brain scientist shares what she learned from her 1996 stroke.
5 A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. (Broadway, $26.) The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.
6 HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.95.) How a green revolution can renew America, by the New York Times columnist.
7 HERE’S THE STORY
, by Maureen McCormick. (Morrow, $25.95.) The life of the actress who played Marcia Brady.
8 MULTIPLE BLESSINGS
, by Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin and Beth Carson. (Zondervan, $19.) A couple with twins has sextuplets.
9 THE LONGEST TRIP HOME
, by John Grogan. (Morrow, $25.95.) A memoir of growing up Catholic, by the author of “Marley & Me.”
10 LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER, by Maya Angelou. (Random House, $25.) Reminiscences, appreciations and poems from the author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
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