The Indie History Bestseller List

Posted Thursday, Jan 28, 2010

For the eight-week period ending January 26, 2010, and based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide.

1.

The Big Burn
Timothy Egan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780618968411

2.

The Imperial Cruise
James Bradley, Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316008952

3.

The National Parks
Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan, Knopf, $50, 9780307268969

4.

The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell, Riverhead, $16, 9781594484001

5.

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Robert M. Edsel, Center Street, $26.99, 9781599951492

6.

Invictus
John Carlin, Penguin, $16, 9780143117155

7.

A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper, $18.95, 9780060838652

8.

The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan, Mariner, $14.95, 9780618773473

9.

The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, Vintage, $15, 9780375725609

10.

The Good Soldiers
David Finkel, Sarah Crichton Books, $26, 9780374165734

11.

The River of Doubt
Candice Millard, Broadway, $15, 9780767913737

12.

The Zookeeper's Wife
Diane Ackerman, Norton, $14.95, 9780393333060

13.

The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
Jack Nisbet, Sasquatch, $23.95, 9781570616136

14.

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
Antony Beevor, Viking, $32.95, 9780670021192

15.

The Fourth Part of the World
Toby Lester, Free Press, $30, 9781416535317

16.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham, Random House, $18, 9780812973464

17.

Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond, Norton, $17.95, 9780393317558

18.

The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $6.99, 9780553577129

19.

The Age of Wonder
Richard Holmes, Pantheon, $40, 9780375422225

20.

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Gordon S. Wood, Oxford Univ. Press, $35, 9780195039146

21.

Night
Elie Wiesel, FSG, $9.95, 9780374500016

22.

Horse Soldiers
Doug Stanton, Scribner, $28, 9781416580515

23.

A Little History of the World
E.H. Gombrich, Yale Univ. Press, $14.95, 9780300143324

24.

The Forever War
Dexter Filkins, Vintage, $15, 9780307279446

25.

Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson, Penguin, $17, 9780143116141