NON-FICTION BESTSELLERS

Non- fictions are books dealing with subjects like education, social sciences, law, economics, politics or autobiographies. In general non-fictions rarely appeals the common readers but certain books mainly concerning interesting subjects and famous personalities have become very popular and eventually bestsellers. The books are generally declared as bestsellers which have top selling rates and are highly acclaimed in the newspapers, magazines or by the bookstore chain. Many publishing houses, magazines and newspapers maintain their bestseller list.

 

The bestseller lists are published weekly, quarterly or monthly. It varies from country to country or city to city. Some of the eminent magazines and publishers who publish these best selling lists are New York Times, People Magazine, and Book Sense. The bestseller lists are not only limited to print media but they are also available on the internet.

 

Some of the non fiction best sellers from 1900 to 1995 are:

•  The Promised Land by Mary Antin

•  God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells

•  The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

•  The Outline of History by H. G. Well (1923)

•  Mother India by Katherine Mayo (1927)

•  Napoleon by Emil Ludwig (1928)

•  Life Begins at Forty by Walter B. Pitkin (1933)

•  Madame Curie by Eve Curie (1938)

•  Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (1939)

•  Dear Sir by Juliet Lowell (1945)

•  The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale (1952)

•  Only in America by Harry Golden (1959)

•  A Day in the Life of President Kennedy by Jim Bishop (1964)

•  Linda Goodman's Sun Signs by Linda Goodman (1969)

•  Harry S. Truman by Margaret Truman (1972)

•  Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution by Robert C. Atkins (1973)

•  When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner (1982)

•  Moonwalk by Michael Jackson (1988)

•  Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn (1991)

•  Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray (1994)

 

Some of the books which are topping the best selling lists of present times are:

•  A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah

•  The Measure Of a Man, by Sidney Poitier

•  The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

•  The Innocent Man by John Grisham

 

For more information on contemporary non fiction bestsellers one can go through the magazines and newspaper and also visit the websites which gives current news of the fresh books published and which are in demand.