New York Times Best Sellers for Hardcover Nonfiction for November 11, 2007

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: November 11, 2007

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1	I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!), by Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello and Allison Silverman. (Grand Central, $26.99.) The wit and wisdom of the mock pundit of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report.”	1	3
2	CLAPTON, by Eric Clapton. (Broadway Books, $26.) The great guitarist looks back on his life and his music.	2	3
3	MY GRANDFATHER’S SON, by Clarence Thomas. (Harper, $26.95.) A memoir from an associate justice of the Supreme Court.	3	4
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.	11	18
5	THE AGE OF TURBULENCE, by Alan Greenspan. (Penguin Press, $35.) A memoir by the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.	4	6
6	FAIR GAME, by Valerie Plame Wilson. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) A former undercover C.I.A. officer who was exposed by the Bush administration describes her experience.		1
7	MUSICOPHILIA, by Oliver Sacks. (Knopf, $26.) The neurologist and author of “Awakenings” examines the interaction between music and the brain.	12	2
8	QUIET STRENGTH, by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker. (Tyndale, $26.99.) A memoir by the first black coach to win a Super Bowl (with the Indianapolis Colts in 2007).	10	16
9	IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS, THEY’D BE REPUBLICANS, by Ann Coulter. (Crown Forum, $24.95.) A collection of the columnist’s provocative quotations.	6	4
10	* THE NINE, by Jeffrey Toobin. (Doubleday, $27.95.) A portrait of the Supreme Court since the Reagan administration focuses on the influence of its moderates.	8	6

New York Times Best Sellers for Hardcover Fiction for November 11, 2007

Hardcover Fiction

Published: November 11, 2007

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1	BOOK OF THE DEAD, by Patricia Cornwell. (Putnam, $26.95.) The forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta opens a private practice in Charleston, S.C.		1
2	A LICK OF FROST, by Laurell K. Hamilton. (Ballantine, $24.95.) In the sixth Meredith Gentry paranormal romance, Meredith’s wicked uncle presses charges against her guards.		1
3	* PLAYING FOR PIZZA, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $21.95.) An American third-string quarterback joins the Italian National Football League’s Parma Panthers.	1	5
4	WORLD WITHOUT END, by Ken Follett. (Dutton, $35.) Love and intrigue in Kingsbridge, the medieval English cathedral town at the center of Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth.”	3	3
5	THE ALMOST MOON, by Alice Sebold. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) A woman murders her mother; from the author of “The Lovely Bones.”	2	2
6	THE CHOICE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $24.99.) How a North Carolina man’s choices play out in his life.	4	5
7	A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.	5	23
8	NOW AND THEN, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $25.95.) What looked like a simple matrimonial case for the Boston P.I. turns out to involve a group that sponsors terrorists.		1
9	DARK OF THE MOON, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $26.95.) Virgil Flowers, a character from “Invisible Prey,” investigates three murders in a small Minnesota town.	6	4
10	YOU’VE BEEN WARNED, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) An aspiring photographer working as a nanny has terrible visions.	7	7