New York Times Best Seller list for Hardcover Nonfiction for May 11, 2008

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: May 11, 2008

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) Humorous personal essays from the stand-up comedian.		1
2	ESCAPE, by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer. (Broadway, $24.95.) A former member of a fundamentalist polygamous sect describes her forced marriage to a much older man.	5	5
3	HOME, by Julie Andrews. (Hyperion, $26.95.) A memoir of Andrews’s early years from birth to being cast as Mary Poppins.	2	4
4	BEAUTIFUL BOY, by David Sheff. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) A father struggles with his son’s meth addiction.	1	9
5	MISTAKEN IDENTITY, by Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb. (Howard, $21.95.) The families of two girls whose identities were confused after a 2006 accident describe their experience.	3	5
6	LADIES OF LIBERTY, by Cokie Roberts. (Morrow, $26.95.) The influential women of early America, from the ABC and NPR news analyst and the author of “The Founding Mothers.”	4	3
7	THE REVOLUTION, by Ron Paul. (Grand Central, $21.) A libertarian manifesto from the Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate. (†)		1
8	BAD MONEY, by Kevin Phillips. (Viking, $25.95.) How the financial sector has hijacked the American economy, aided by Washington’s ruinous faith in the efficiency of markets.	7	2
9	* ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT, by Kurt Vonnegut. (Putnam, $24.95.) Twelve unpublished writings on war and peace by the novelist, who died in 2007.	8	4
10	THE SOLOIST, by Steve Lopez. (Putnam, $25.95.) A columnist for The Los Angeles Times comes upon a homeless musician on Skid Row and sets out to change his life.		1