There are 14 books listed as #1 best seller in New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers 2012. Killing Kennedy written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard is listed as the #1 best seller for 10 weeks.
There are 223 books in the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers 2012 list. Killing Lincoln written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard is in this list for 53 weeks.
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1. Killing Kennedy
Weeks listed as #1: 10
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by: Bill O’Reilly , Martin Dugard Release date: Oct 02, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
2. Wild
Weeks listed as #1: 7
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by: Cheryl Strayed Release date: Mar 20, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A woman’s account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
3. American Sniper
Weeks listed as #1: 7
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by: Chris Kyle , Scott McEwen , Jim DeFelice Release date: Jan 03, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A member of the Navy Seals with the most career sniper kills in United States military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.
4. Amateur
Weeks listed as #1: 6
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by: Edward Klein Release date: May 14, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A journalist argues that President Obama is callow, arrogant and unable to lead.
5. Drift
Weeks listed as #1: 5
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by: Rachel Maddow Release date: Jan 01, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
America’s path to war has become too easy, with excessive power ceded to the executive branch, the MSNBC host argues.
6. No Easy Day
Weeks listed as #1: 4
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by: Mark Owen , Kevin Maurer Release date: Jan 01, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
An account by a former member of the Navy SEALs, written pseudonymously, of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden.
7. Steve Jobs
Weeks listed as #1: 4
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by: Walter Isaacson Release date: Oct 24, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur, based on 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years.
8. Ameritopia
Weeks listed as #1: 3
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by: Mark R Levin Release date: Jan 17, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation surveys the history of utopias and warns that Americans must choose between utopianism and liberty.
9. The Passage Of Power
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: Robert A Caro Release date: Jan 01, 1982 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
From 1958 through the Kennedy assassination; the fourth volume of “The Years of Lyndon Johnson.”
10. Imagine
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Jonah Lehrer Release date: Jan 01, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
An account of the science of creativity argues that it is not a gift but a group of thought processes that can be learned.
11. Obama’s America
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Dinesh D’Souza Release date: Aug 13, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
An argument that President Obama is the architect of American decline.
12. Paterno
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Joe Posnanski Release date: Aug 21, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A biography of the legendary Penn State football coach.
13. Thomas Jefferson
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Jon Meacham Release date: Nov 13, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical politician.
14. Unbroken
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Laura Hillenbr, Release date: Nov 16, 2010 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
Last updated on December 8, 2021