New York Times Best Seller Hardcover NonFiction for July 20 2008

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: July 20, 2008

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This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES, by David Sedaris. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) The humorist’s latest essays.	1	5
2	FLEECED, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (Harper, $26.95.) Americans are fleeced by government, business, labor unions and lobbyists. (†)	2	2
3	WHAT HAPPENED, by Scott McClellan. (PublicAffairs, $27.95.) A former White House press secretary regrets that “I allowed myself to be deceived” by top officials.	3	6
4	ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) Humorous personal essays from the stand-up comedian.	4	11
5	THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE, by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi. (Grand Central, $25.99.) An American writer in Florence and an Italian journalist work to discover the identity of a local serial killer.	5	4
6	MY STROKE OF INSIGHT, by Jill Bolte Taylor. (Viking, $24.95.) A brain scientist shares what she learned from her 1996 stroke.	7	5
7	AUDITION, by Barbara Walters. (Knopf, $29.95.) A personal and professional memoir.	6	9
8	THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD, by Fareed Zakaria. (Norton, $25.95.) The rise of China and India and the global distribution of power.	8	10
9	STORI TELLING, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin. (Simon Spotlight, $24.95.) The actress’s memoir, from her Hollywood childhood through “Beverly Hills, 90210,” to her son’s birth.	11	6
10	THE BILLIONAIRE’S VINEGAR, by Benjamin Wallace. (Crown, $24.95.) An investigation into the world of rare wines, focused on a bottle that was supposedly owned by Jefferson. PCPL Card Catalog MeLCat		1