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Annual Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers, 2000 to 2005

All books listed in the Publishers Weekly annual hardcover nonfiction bestseller list for the years 2000 through 2005 are listed below in alphabetical order, along with information specifying the year in which they were listed and whether or not they contain an index.

Each list includes the top fifteen bestsellers. In the six years from 2000 to 2005 inclusive, 90 positions were available to be filled . However, because 12 titles have been annual bestsellers more than once, only 78 titles were listed during those years.

Information about the presence or absence of an index is based on data in the book's MARC tags retrieved from the Library of Congress Online Catalog . The table indicates the presence of an index only if the word index appears in the book's MARC field tag 500, usually in a phrase such as Includes index or Includes bibliography and index. It indicates the absence of an index if the word index does not appear in the book's MARC field tag 500 or if field tag 500 is not one of the book's MARC tags. Occasionally, information in the table is based on data in field tag 504 rather than field tag 500.

A summary follows the data about the individual books.

Publishers Weekly
Annual Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers, 2000 to 2005
#	Title	Authors	Index?	Years
1.	700 Sundays	Billy Crystal	No	2005
2.	1776	David McCullough	Yes	2005
3.	A Life God Rewards	Bruce Wilkinson, David Kopp	No	2002
4.	America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction	Jon Stewart	No	2004
5.	America's Heroes: Inspiring Stories of Courage, Sacrifice and Patriotism	SP LLC. Sports Publishing	No	2001
6.	Atkins for Life: The Complete Controlled Carb Program for Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health	Robert C. Atkins	Yes	2003
7.	Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich	David Bach	Yes	2004
8.	Beatles Anthology	Beatles	Yes	2000
9.	Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking	Malcolm Gladwell	Yes	2005
10.	Blue Day Book: A Lesson in Cheering Yourself Up	Bradley Greive	No	2001
11.	Body for Life	Bill Phillips	No	2000, 2001, 2002 (also 1999)
12.	Bringing Up Boys	James Dobson	No	2002
13.	Bush at War	Bob Woodward	No	2002
14.	Dude, Where's My Country?	Michael Moore	No	2003
15.	Eating Well for Optimum Health	Andrew Weil	Yes	2000
16.	Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation	Lynne Truss	No	2004
17.	Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child	Ron Clark	No	2003
18.	Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family	Phillip C. McGraw	No	2004
19.	Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty	Kiutty Kelley	Yes	2004
20.	Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima	James Bradley, Ron Powers	Yes	2000
21.	Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything	Stephen J. Dubner	Yes	2005
22.	French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure	Mireille Guiliano	Yes	2005
23.	Get with the Program: Getting Real About Your Healt, Weight, and Emotional Well-Being	Bob Greene	Yes	2002
24.	Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap – And Others Don't	Jim Collins	Yes	2002, 2003
25.	Guinness World Records 2001	Guinness Media	Yes	2000
26.	Guinness World Records 2002	Guinness Media	Yes	2001
27.	Guinness World Records 2003	Guinness Media	Yes	2002
28.	Guinness World Records 2004	Guinness Media	Yes	2003
29.	Guinness World Records 2005	Guinness Media	Yes	2004
30.	Guinness World Records 2006	Guinness Editors	Yes	2005
31.	He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys	Liz Tuccillo	Yes	2004
32.	How I Play Golf	Tiger Woods	No	2001
33.	I Hope You Dance	Mark Sanders, Lee Ann Womack, Tia Sillers	No	2001, 2002
34.	Jack: Straight from the Gut	Jack Welch	Yes	2001
35.	John Adams	David McCullough	Yes	2001
36.	Kate Remembered	A. Scott Berg	No	2003
37.	Leadership	Rudolph Guiliani	Yes	2002
38.	Let's Roll! Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage	Lisa Beamer, Ken Abraham	No	2002
39.	Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them)	Al Franken	No	2003
40.	Living History	Hillary Clinton	No	2003
41.	Love Smart: Find the One You Want, Fix the One You Got	Phil McGraw	No	2005
42.	Millionaire Mind	Thomas J. Stanley	No	2000
43.	My Life	Bill Clinton	Yes	2004
44.	Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About	Kevin Trudeau	No	2005
45.	No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America	Bill O'Reilly	No	2001
46.	Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869	Stephen Ambrose	Yes	2000
47.	O'Reilly Factor: The Good, Bad and Completely Ridiculous in American Life	Bill O'Reilly	No	2000
48.	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft	Stephen King	No	2000
49.	Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis	Jimmy Carter	Yes	2005
50.	Plan of Attack	Bob Woodward	Yes	2004
51.	Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed	Patricia Cornwell	Yes	2002
52.	Prayer of Jabez for Women: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life	Bruce Wilkinson	No	2002
53.	Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life	Bruce Wilkinson	No	2000, 2001
54.	Prayers of Jabez: Devotional	Bruce Wilkinson	No	2001
55.	Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands	Laura Schlessinger	No	2004
56.	Purpose-Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For?	Rick Warren	No	2003, 2004, 2005
57.	Relationship Rescue: A Seven-Step Strategy for Reconnecting with your Partner	Phillip C. McGraw	No	2000
58.	Road to Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money	Suze Orman	Yes	2001
59.	Royal Duty	Paul Burrell	No	2003
60.	Secrets of the Vine: Breaking Through to Abundance	Bruce Wilkinson	No	2001
61.	Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out	Phillip C. McGraw	No	2001, 2002
62.	Short Guide to a Happy Life	Anna Quindlen	No	2000
63.	South Beach Diet	Arthur Agatston	Yes	2003, 2004
64.	South Beach Diet Cookbook	Arthur Agatston	Yes	2004
65.	Stupid White Men	Michael Moore	No	2002
66.	Teacher Man: A Memoir	Frank McCourt	No	2005
67.	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln	Doris Kearns Goodwin	Yes	2005
68.	Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out into the Real World	Maria Shriver	No	2000
69.	Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism	Ann Coulter	Yes	2003
70.	Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson	Mitch Albom	No	2000 (also 1998, 1999)
71.	Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom	Phillip C. McGraw	Yes	2003
72.	Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry	John O'Neill, Jerome Corsi	Yes	2004
73.	Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life	Spencer Johnson	No	2000, 2001, 2002 (also 1999)
74.	Who's Looking Out for You?	Bill O'Reilly	No	2003
75.	World According to Mr. Rogers: Important Things to Remember	Fred Rogers	No	2003
76.	World is Flat: A Brief Hisory of the Twenty-First Century	Thomas L. Friedman	Yes	2005
77.	You: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide tot he Body that Wil Make You Healthier and Younger	Michael F. Roizen	Yes	2005
78.	Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential	Joel Osteen	No	2004, 2005

Totals
Titles: # Titles with indexes: % Titles with indexes:	78 36 46%

Totals Based on Positions Per Year
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005	5 of 4 of 5 of 6 of 9 of 9 of 38 of	15 15 15 15 15 15 90	33% 27% 33% 40% 60% 60% 42%

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