New York Times Best Seller List for July 15, 2007 Hardcover Nonfiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: July 15, 2007

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	THE DIANA CHRONICLES, by Tina Brown. (Doubleday, $27.50.) The Princess of Wales’s romance with the media.	1	3
2	THE DIANA CHRONICLES, by Christopher Hitchens. (Twelve, $24.99.) Religion as a malignant force in the world.	4	9
3	THE ASSAULT ON REASON, by Al Gore. (Penguin Press, $25.95.) How the Bush administration has degraded the political environment through secrecy, fear and the rejection of fact-based reasoning.	3	6
4	LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) The only survivor of a Navy Seal operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle, his comrades and his courageous escape.	6	3
5	THE REAGAN DIARIES, by Ronald Reagan. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. (HarperCollins, $35.) Selections from the 40th president’s daily White House diaries.	2	6
6	A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.	8	20
7	OUTRAGE, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (HC/ HarperCollins, $26.95.) An attack on illegal immigration, United Nations profiteers, lazy congressmen and high drug prices.	5	3
8	EINSTEIN, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster, $32.) A biography based on newly released personal letters.	7	12
9	ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE, by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. (HarperCollins, $26.95.) The novelist and her family spend a year eating homegrown or local food.	10	9
10	THE BLACK SWAN, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. (Random House, $26.95.) The role of the unexpected.		8