New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers 2008 Complete List Page 3

There are 144 books in the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers 2008 list. Here are the 30 books ranked from 61 to 90.

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61. A Champion’s Mind

Weeks on the list: 3

by: Peter Bodo
Release date: Jan 01, 2008
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The tennis star reviews his life and career.

62. Big Russ And Me

Weeks on the list: 3

by: Tim Russert
Release date: May 11, 2005
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The host of “Meet the Press” remembers his father.

63. Rome 1960

Weeks on the list: 3

by: David Maraniss
Release date: Jul 01, 2008
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How the 1960 Olympic Games reflected their time.

64. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Weeks on the list: 3

by: Haruki Murakami
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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Part training guide, part memoir, from the Japanese novelist.

65. Night Of The Gun

Weeks on the list: 3

by: David Carr
Release date: Aug 05, 2008
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A New York Times media columnist and culture reporter recounts his former life as a crack addict, cokehead and alcoholic, and how he got back on track.

66. The First Billion Is The Hardest

Weeks on the list: 3

by: T Boone Pickens
Release date: Jan 01, 2008
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An account of Pickens’s career and his views about energy policy.

67. The House At Sugar Beach

Weeks on the list: 3

by: Helene Cooper
Release date: Sep 02, 2008
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A New York Times reporter’s memoir of growing up in, and fleeing from, Liberia.

68. The Forever War

Weeks on the list: 3

by: Dexter Filkins
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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A distillation of his work in Iraq and Afghanistan by the New York Times correspondent.

69. Kill Bin Laden

Weeks on the list: 3

by: Dalton Fury
Release date: Oct 06, 2008
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The siege of Tora Bora by the elite counterterrorist unit Delta Force, by the senior ranking military officer at the battle.

70. Here’S The Story

Weeks on the list: 3

by: Maureen McCormick
Release date: Oct 14, 2008
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The life of the actress who played Marcia Brady.

71. The Black Swan

Weeks on the list: 3

by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Release date: Jan 01, 2007
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The role of the unexpected.

72. Dreams From My Father

Weeks on the list: 3

by: Barack Obama
Release date: Jan 01, 2004
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The president-elect on life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother.

73. A Long Way Gone

Weeks on the list: 3

by: Ishmael Beah
Release date: Aug 05, 2008
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A former child soldier’s killing spree and return to humanity.

74. Ladies Of Liberty

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Cokie Roberts
Release date: Apr 08, 2008
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The influential women of early America

75. The Last Campaign

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Thurston Clarke
Release date: May 27, 2008
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Robert Kennedy’s 1968 campaign for the presidency.

76. The Drunkard’S Walk

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Leonard Mlodinow
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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How we misunderstand the significance of chance in our daily lives.

77. The Rise Of The Fourth Reich

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Jim Marrs
Release date: Jun 24, 2008
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78. Southern Storm

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Noah Andre Trudeau
Release date: Aug 05, 2008
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79. The Strongest Tribe

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Bing West
Release date: Sep 15, 2009
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How the war in Iraq has turned around.

80. We Are Soldiers Still

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Harold G Moore Joseph L Galloway
Release date: Aug 19, 2008
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The authors of “We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young” revisit 10 veterans of a battle in Vietnam in 1965 whom they interviewed for the earlier book.

81. Watch You Bleed

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Stephen Davis
Release date: Aug 26, 2008
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82. Faith Of My Fathers

Weeks on the list: 2

by: John McCain Mark Salter
Release date: Jan 01, 2008
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A family memoir by the Arizona senator and Republican presidential candidate.

83. Black Belt Patriotism

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Chuck Norris
Release date: Aug 19, 2008
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How to apply the founding fathers’ wisdom to today’s problems like immigration and global terrorism.

84. The Trouble With Boys

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Peg Tyre
Release date: Sep 09, 2008
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The national debate about why boys are falling behind girls’ achievement in school.

85. The Necklace

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Cheryl Jarvis
Release date: Aug 01, 2009
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86. New Paradigm For Financial Markets

Weeks on the list: 2

by: George Soros
Release date: Apr 29, 2008
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The financier analyzes the origins and implications of the credit crisis, and offers a new way of thinking about how markets really work.

87. The Way I Am

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Eminem Sacha Jenkins
Release date: Jan 01, 2008
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How the rapper sees the world, with 250 photographs.

88. The Rise Of Barack Obama

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Pete Souza
Release date: Jan 01, 2008
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Photographs of Obama’s career, from his first day in the U.S. Senate to the Pennsylvania primary last April.

89. The 10 Big Lies About America

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Michael Medved
Release date: Oct 01, 2009
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90. Deciding The Next Decider

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Calvin Trillin
Release date: Jan 01, 2008
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The 2008 presidential race in rhyme.

Last updated on December 8, 2021