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Weekly Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers, 2003
Each book that appeared in a weekly hardcover nonfiction bestseller list published by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly during 2003 is listed in the table below in alphabetical order, along with information specifying whether or not the book includes an index.
Both lists include the week's top fifteen bestsellers. The Times's is dated Sunday, such as January 5, 2003; Publishers Weekly's is dated Monday, such as January 6, 2003. The Times published 52 lists dated the year 2003; Publishers Weekly published 51 lists dated 2003. In the table, NYT signifies The Times's list; PW signifies Publishers Weekly's list.
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.
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Weekly Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers for 2003 NYT for January 5 through December 28, 2003 PW for January 6 through December 22, 2003 |
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1. |
1421: The Year China Discovered America |
Gavin Menzies |
Yes |
NYT |
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| 2. | Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths | Bruce Feiler | No | NYT | ||
| 3. | Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point | David Pipsky | No | NYT | ||
| 4. | After Life: Answers from the Other Side | John Edward | No | NYT | PW | |
| 5. | All the President's Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families | Doug Wead | Yes | NYT | ||
| 6. | Almost There: The Onward Journy of a Dublin Woman | Nuala O'Faolain | No | NYT | ||
| 7. | America 24/7 | Rick Smolan, David Cohen | No | NYT | PW | |
| 8. | Are You Hungry, Dear? Life, Laughs and Lasagna | Doris Roberts, Danelle Morton | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 9. | Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite | Bernard Goldberg | Yes | NYT | ||
| 10. | Art of Happiness at Work | Dailai Lama, Howard Cutler | No | NYT | ||
| 11. | Atkins for Life: The Complete Controlled Carb Program for Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health | Robert C. Atkins | Yes | PW | ||
| 12. | Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball | Stefan Kanfer | Yes | NYT | ||
| 13. | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life | Walter Isaacson | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 14. | Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas | Elaine Pagels | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 15. | Bible Code II: The Countdown | Michael Drosnin | Yes | NYT | ||
| 16. | Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth | Joe Conason | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 17. | Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder | Steve Hodel | No | NYT | ||
| 18. | Body for Life | Bill Phillips | No | PW | ||
| 19. | Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty | Caroline Alexander | Yes | NYT | ||
| 20. | Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Las Vegas for Millions | Ben Mezrich | No | NYT | ||
| 21. | Bringing Elizabeth Home: A Journey of Faith and Hope | Ed and Lois Smart | No | NYT | PW | |
| 22. | Broken Music | Sting | No | NYT | PW | |
| 23. | Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response | Peter Balakian | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 24. | Bush at War | Bob Wodward | No | NYT | PW | |
| 25. | Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential | James Moore, Wayne Slater | Yes | NYT | ||
| 26. | Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America | Molly Ivins | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 27. | Case for Israel | Alan Dershowitz | Yes | NYT | ||
| 28. | Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History | George Crile | Yes | NYT | ||
| 29. | Clinton Wars | Sidney Blumenthal | Yes | NYT | ||
| 30. | Common Nonsense | Andy Rooney | No | NYT | ||
| 31. | Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 | Michael Beschloss | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 32. | Contacting Your Spirit Guide (with CD) | Sylvia Browne | No | PW | ||
| 33. | Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror | Bernard Lewis | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 34. | Curves: Permanent Results Without Permanent Dieting | Gary Heavin, Carol Colman | Yes | PW | ||
| 35. | Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town | Paul Theroux | No | NYT | ||
| 36. | Dear Mom: Thank You for Everything | Bradley Greive | No | PW | ||
| 37. | Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values | Tammy Bruce | Yes | NYT | ||
| 38. | Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security | Bill Patterson | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 39. | Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America | Erik Larson | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 40. | Do You Love Football? Winning with Heart, Passion, and Not Much Sleep | Jon Gruden, Vic Carucci | No | NYT | ||
| 41. | Double Deal: The Inside Story of Murder, Unbridled Corruption, and the Cop Who Was a Mobster | Michael Corbitt, Sam Giancana | No | NYT | ||
| 42. | Dude, Where's My Country? | Michael Moore | No | NYT | PW | |
| 43. | Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child | Ron Clark | No | PW | ||
| 44. | Every Second Counts | Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins | No | NYT | PW | |
| 45. | Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness and Making Miracles | Marianne Williamson | No | PW | ||
| 46. | Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done | Larry Bossidy | Yes | PW | ||
| 47. | Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results | Stephen Lundin | No | PW | ||
| 48. | Flyboys: A True Story of American Courage | James Bradley | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 49. | For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut | Scott Carpenter, Kris Stoever | Yes | NYT | ||
| 50. | Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship | Jon Meacham | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 51. | From Emeril's Kitchen | Emeril Legasse | Yes | PW | ||
| 52. | Funny Thing Is … | Ellen DeGeneres | No | NYT | PW | |
| 53. | Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad | Fareed Zakaria | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 54. | Get With the Program! Getting Real About Your Weight, Health, and Emotional Well-Being | Bob Greene | Yes | PW | ||
| 55. | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don't | Jim Collins | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 56. | Goomba's Guide to Life | Steven Schirripa, Charles Fleming | No | NYT | ||
| 57. | Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century | Paul Krugman | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 58. | Guinness World Records 2003 | Guinness Media | Yes | PW | ||
| 59. | Guinness World Records 2004 | Guiness Media | Yes | PW | ||
| 60. | Haley's Hints | Graham Haley, Rosemary Haley | Yes | PW | ||
| 61. | Hardy Boyz: Exist 2 Inspire | Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, Michael Krugman | No | NYT | ||
| 62. | Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism | Dore Gold | Yes | NYT | ||
| 63. | Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death | Ann Rule | No | NYT | ||
| 64. | Hunt for Bin Laden | Robin Moore | No | NYT | PW | |
| 65. | I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story | Rick Bragg | No | NYT | PW | |
| 66. | I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility | Trisha Meili | No | NYT | PW | |
| 67. | I Am What I Ate … and I'm Frightened!!! And Other Digressions from the Doctor of Comedy | Bill Cosby | No | NYT | PW | |
| 68. | I Love You, Mom! A Celebration of Our Mothers & Their Gifts to Us | Kelly Ripa | No | NYT | PW | |
| 69. | I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It | Charles Barkley | No | NYT | ||
| 70. | In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington | Robert Rubin, Jacob Weisberg | Yes | NYT | ||
| 71. | In the Company of Heroes | Michael Durant, Steven Hartov | No | NYT | ||
| 72. | In the Presence of My Enemies | Gracia Burnham, Deam Merrill | No | NYT | ||
| 73. | Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod | Maria Flook | No | NYT | PW | |
| 74. | Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles | Anthony Swofford | No | NYT | PW | |
| 75. | John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy | Evan Thomas | Yes | NYT | ||
| 76. | Journals | Kurt Cobain | No | NYT | PW | |
| 77. | Kate Remembered | A. Scott Berg | No | NYT | PW | |
| 78. | Kennedy Curse: Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years | Bill Sammon | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 79. | Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century | Hunter Thompson | No | NYT | ||
| 80. | Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 | Simon Winchester | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 81. | Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life: Keep What You Have and Create What You Deserve | Suze Orman | Yes | PW | ||
| 82. | Leadership | Rudolph Guiliani | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 83. | Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life | Queen Noor | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 84. | Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism | Sean Hannity | Yes | NYT | ||
| 85. | Let's Roll: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage | Lisa Beamer, Ken Abraham | No | NYT | ||
| 86. | Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right | Al Franken | No | NYT | PW | |
| 87. | Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live | Tom Shales | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 88. | Living History | Hillary Clinton | No | NYT | PW | |
| 89. | Living to Tell the Tale | Gabriel García Márquez | No | NYT | ||
| 90. | Long Way From Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland | Tom Brokaw | No | NYT | PW | |
| 91. | Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 | Thomas L. Friedman | No | NYT | ||
| 92. | Lord is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-Third Psalm | Harold Kushner | No | NYT | ||
| 93. | Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Visual Companion | Jude Fisher | No | NYT | ||
| 94. | Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror | Richard Miniter | Yes | NYT | ||
| 95. | LT: Over the Edge: Tackling Quarterbacks, Drugs, and a World Beyond Football | Lawrence Taylor, Stevey Serby | No | NYT | PW | |
| 96. | Mad Dog 100: The Greatest Sports Arguments of All Time | Christopher Russo, Allen St. John | No | NYT | ||
| 97. | Madame Secretary: A Memoir | Madeleine Albright, Bill Woodward | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 98. | Me and My Dad: A Baseball Memoir | Paul O'Neill, Burton Rocks | No | NYT | PW | |
| 99. | Michelangelo & The Pope's Ceiling | Ross King | No | NYT | ||
| 100. | Million Little Pieces | James Frey | No | NYT | ||
| 101. | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game | Michael Lewis | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 102. | Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder | No | NYT | ||
| 103. | My Losing Season | Pat Conroy | No | NYT | PW | |
| 104. | National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat | Zell Miller | No | NYT | PW | |
| 105. | Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order | Robert Kagan | No | NYT | ||
| 106. | Off with Their Heads: Traitors, Crooks and Obstructionists in American Politics, Media and Business | Dick Morris | No | NYT | PW | |
| 107. | One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth | Mark Victor Hansen | No | PW | ||
| 108. | Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black | John Feinstein | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 109. | Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World | Margaret Macmillan | Yes | NYT | ||
| 110. | Pathway: Follow the Road to Health and Happiness | Laurel Mellin | No | PW | ||
| 111. | Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love | Caroline Kennedy | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 112. | Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett-Packard | George Anders | Yes | NYT | ||
| 113. | Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches, and Baseball | David Wells, Chris Kreski | No | NYT | PW | |
| 114. | Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity | David Limbaugh | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 115. | Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America | Adrianna Huffington | Yes | NYT | ||
| 116. | Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed | Patricia Cornwell | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 117. | Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker | James McManus | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 118. | Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal | James Loehr | Yes | PW | ||
| 119. | Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment | Eckhart Tolle, Russell DiCarlo | No | PW | ||
| 120. | Present: Enjoying Your Work and Life in Changing Times | Spencer Johnson | No | PW | ||
| 121. | Prince of Providence: The Life and Times of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys and the Feds | Mike Stanton | Yes | NYT | ||
| 122. | Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? | Rick Warren | No | PW | ||
| 123. | Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx | Adrian Nicole LeBlanc | No | NYT | ||
| 124. | Reagan: A Life in Letters | Kiron Skinner, et. al. | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 125. | Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market | Eric Shlosser | Yes | NYT | ||
| 126. | Reflections: Life After the White House | Barbara Bush | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 127. | Right Man: The Surpise Presidency of George W. Bush | David Frum | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 128. | Royal Duty | Paul Burrell | No | NYT | PW | |
| 129. | Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy | Jane Leavy | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 130. | Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language & Culture | Michael Savage | No | NYT | PW | |
| 131. | Seabiscuit: An American Legend | Laura Hillenbrand | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 132. | Shattered Love: A Memoir | Richard Chamberlain | No | NYT | ||
| 133. | Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 134. | Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics and the UN Are Subverting America | Laura Ingraham | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 135. | Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude | Robert Baer | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 136. | Sopranos Family Cookbook: As Compiled by Artie Bucco | Allen Rucker, Michele Scicolone | No | PW | ||
| 137. | South Beach Diet | Arthur Agatston | Yes | PW | ||
| 138. | Stone Cold Truth | Steve Austin | No | NYT | PW | |
| 139. | Stupid White Men … And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! | Michael Moore | No | NYT | PW | |
| 140. | Suzanne Somers' Fast and Easy: Lose Weight the Somersize Way with Quick, Delicious Meals for the Entire Family! | Suzanne Somers | Yes | PW | ||
| 141. | Sweet Caroline: The Last Child of Camelot | Christopher Andersen | Yes | NYT | ||
| 142. | Teammates | David Halberstam | No | NYT | PW | |
| 143. | Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World – And Then Nearly Lost it All | Monica Langley | Yes | NYT | ||
| 144. | Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country – And It's Time to Take It Back | Jim Hightower | Yes | NYT | ||
| 145. | This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV | Bob Shieffer | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 146. | Three Weeks in October: The Manhunt for the Serial Sniper | Charles A. Moose | No | NYT | PW | |
| 147. | Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Photographs | National Geographic | No | NYT | ||
| 148. | To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian | Stephen Ambrose | Yes | NYT | ||
| 149. | Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness | Dave Ramsey | No | PW | ||
| 150. | Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success | Andy Andrews | No | PW | ||
| 151. | Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism | Ann Coulter | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 152. | Ultimate Weight Solution | Phillip C. McGraw | Yes | PW | ||
| 153. | Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith | Jon Krakauer | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 154. | Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 | Robert Dallek | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 155. | Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First | Mona Charen | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 156. | Visits from the Afterlife | Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison | No | NYT | PW | |
| 157. | Wendy's Got the Heat | Wendy Williams, Karen Hunter | No | NYT | ||
| 158. | What Becomes of the Brokenhearted | E. Lynn Harris | No | NYT | PW | |
| 159. | What Should I Do with My Life? The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question | Po Bronson | No | NYT | PW | |
| 160. | Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life | Spencer Johnson | No | PW | ||
| 161. | Who Says Elephants Can't Dance: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround | Louis Gerstner | Yes | NYT | ||
| 162. | Who's Looking Out for You? | Bill O'Reilly | No | NYT | PW | |
| 163. | Who's Your Caddy? | Rick Reilly | No | NYT | PW | |
| 164. | Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 | Gerald Posner | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 165. | Woman Who Wouldn't Talk | Susan McDougal, Pat Harris | Yes | NYT | ||
| 166. | World According to Mister Rogers | Fred Rogers | No | PW | ||
| 167. | World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Insecurity | Amy Chua | Yes | NYT | ||
| 168. | Yanni in Words | Yanni, David Rensin | No | NYT | ||
| 2003 Totals | |||||||
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Over- all |
On NYT |
On PW |
On Both |
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Titles: # Titles with indexes: % Titles with indexes: |
168 83 49% |
139 70 50% |
107 54 50% |
78 41 53% |
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For information about other weekly hardcover nonfiction bestsellers, link to pages for the years
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
For information about annual hardcover nonfiction bestsellers, link to pages for the periods
| 1975 to 1979 | 1990 to 1999 |
| 1980 to 1989 | 2000 to 2005 |