New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers 2012

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 New York Times Best Sellers 2012

1. Killing Kennedy

Weeks listed as #1: 10

by: Bill O’Reilly Martin Dugard
Release date: Oct 02, 2012
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The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

2. Wild

Weeks listed as #1: 7

by: Cheryl Strayed
Release date: Mar 20, 2012
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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

by: Chris Kyle Scott McEwen Jim DeFelice
Release date: Jan 03, 2012
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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

by: Edward Klein
Release date: May 14, 2012
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A journalist argues that President Obama is callow, arrogant and unable to lead.

5. Drift

Weeks listed as #1: 5

by: Rachel Maddow
Release date: Jan 01, 2012
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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

by: Mark Owen Kevin Maurer
Release date: Jan 01, 2012
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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

by: Walter Isaacson
Release date: Oct 24, 2011
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A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur, based on 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years.

8. Ameritopia

Weeks listed as #1: 3

by: Mark R Levin
Release date: Jan 17, 2012
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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

by: Robert A Caro
Release date: Jan 01, 1982
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From 1958 through the Kennedy assassination; the fourth volume of “The Years of Lyndon Johnson.”

10. Imagine

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Jonah Lehrer
Release date: Jan 01, 2012
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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

by: Dinesh D’Souza
Release date: Aug 13, 2012
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An argument that President Obama is the architect of American decline.

12. Paterno

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Joe Posnanski
Release date: Aug 21, 2012
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A biography of the legendary Penn State football coach.

13. Thomas Jefferson

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Jon Meacham
Release date: Nov 13, 2012
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical politician.

14. Unbroken

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Laura Hillenbr
Release date: Nov 16, 2010
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An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

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