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Weekly Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers, 2005
Each book that appeared in a weekly hardcover nonfiction bestseller list published by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly during 2005 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 list is dated Sunday, such as January 2, 2005; Publishers Weekly's list is dated Monday, such as January 3, 2005. 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 2005 NYT for January 2, 2005 through December 25, 2005 PW for January 3, 2005 through December 26, 2005 |
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| 1. | 6-Day Body Makeover: Drop One Whole Dress or Pant Size in Just 6 Days – and Keep It Off | Michael Thurmond | Yes | PW | ||
| 2. | 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America — And Al Franken Is #37 | Bernard Goldberg | No | NYT | PW | |
| 3. | 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers | Jim Dwyer, Devin Flynn | Yes | NYT | ||
| 4. | 700 Sundays | Billy Crystal | No | NYT | PW | |
| 5. | 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus | Charles C. Mann | Yes | NYT | ||
| 6. | 1776 | David McCullough | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 7. | Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life | David Zincenko | Yes | PW | ||
| 8. | America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction | Jon Stewart | No | NYT | PW | |
| 9. | And One More Thing Before You Go ... | Maria Shriver | No | PW | ||
| 10. | Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior | Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 11. | Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide | Maureen Dowd | No | NYT | PW | |
| 12. | Assassination Vacation | Sarah Vowell | No | NYT | ||
| 13. | Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth about the First Year of Mommyhood | Jenny McCarthy | No | NYT | PW | |
| 14. | Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream | Barbara Ehrenreich | No | NYT | PW | |
| 15. | Be Honest – You're Not That Into Him Either: Raise Your Standards and Reach for the Love You Deserve | Ian Kerner | No | PW | ||
| 16. | Beatles: The Biography | Bob Spitz | Yes | NYT | ||
| 17. | Being Perfect | Anna Quindlen | No | PW | ||
| 18. | Big Bang: The Origins of the Universe | Simon Singh | Yes | NYT | ||
| 19. | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 20. | Blood Brother: 33 Reasons Why My Brother Scott Peterson is Guilty | Anne Bird | No | NYT | PW | |
| 21. | Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966 | Robert Santelli | No | NYT | ||
| 22. | Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover | Bob Greene | Yes | PW | ||
| 23. | Body for Life for Women: A Woman's Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation | Pamela Peeke | Yes | PW | ||
| 24. | Boys of Pointe Du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Batallion | Douglas Brinkley | Yes | NYT | ||
| 25. | Break, Blow, Burn | Camille Paglia | No | NYT | ||
| 26. | Brother's Journey: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse | Richard B. Pelzer | No | NYT | ||
| 27. | Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror | Natan Sharansky, Ron Dermer | Yes | NYT | ||
| 28. | Character is Destiny | John McCain | No | PW | ||
| 29. | Chronicles: Volume One | Bob Dylan | No | NYT | PW | |
| 30. | City of Falling Angels | John Berendt | No | NYT | PW | |
| 31. | Coach: Lessons in the Game of Life | Michael Lewis | No | NYT | PW | |
| 32. | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Jared Diamond | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 33. | Coming Home to Myself | Wynonna Judd, Patsi Bale Cox | Yes | NYT | ||
| 34. | Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker | Robert Mankoff | Yes | PW | ||
| 35. | Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race | Dick Morris, Eileen McGann | Yes | NYT | ||
| 36. | Confessions of a Video Vixen: A Cautionary Tale of Life in the Fast Lane | Karrine Steffans, Karen Hunter | No | NYT | PW | |
| 37. | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man | John Perkins | Yes | NYT | ||
| 38. | Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story | Kurt Eichenwald | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 39. | Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 | Simon Winchester | Yes | NYT | ||
| 40. | Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth | Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen | Yes | PW | ||
| 41. | Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation | Catherine Crier, Cole Thompson | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 42. | Dean and Me (A Love Story) | Jerry Lewis | Yes | NYT | ||
| 43. | Dear Senator: A Daughter's Memoir | Essie Mae Washington-Williams, William Stadiem | No | NYT | ||
| 44. | Deficit of Democracy | Zell Miller | No | NYT | ||
| 45. | Disney War | James B. Stewart | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 46. | Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy | Peter Schweizer | Yes | NYT | ||
| 47. | Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help - And the Rest of Us | Mona Charen | Yes | NYT | ||
| 48. | Don't Kiss Them Good-Bye | Allison DuBois | No | PW | ||
| 49. | Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression | Brooke Shields | No | NYT | PW | |
| 50. | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Essays | David Sedaris | No | NYT | ||
| 51. | Driven from Within | Michael Jordan, Tinker Hatfield | No | NYT | PW | |
| 52. | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation | Lynne Truss | No | NYT | PW | |
| 53. | Education of a Coach | David Halberstam | No | NYT | PW | |
| 54. | Elvis by the Presleys | David Ritz | No | NYT | PW | |
| 55. | End of Poverty | Jeffrey D. Sachs | Yes | NYT | ||
| 56. | Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes | Giada De Laurentiis | Yes | PW | ||
| 57. | FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS | Neal Boortz, John Linder | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 58. | Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2005 Season | Stewart O'Nan, Stephen King | No | NYT | PW | |
| 59. | Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family | Phillip C. McGraw | No | PW | ||
| 60. | Favre | Brett Favre, Bonita Favre, Chris Havel | No | NYT | ||
| 61. | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Stephen J. Dubner | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 62. | French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure | Mireille Guiliano | Yes | PW | ||
| 63. | From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens | 50 Cent | No | NYT | PW | |
| 64. | Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists | Neil Strauss | No | NYT | ||
| 65. | Games Do Count: America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sport | Brian Kilmeade | Yes | NYT | ||
| 66. | Garlic and Sapphires | Ruth Reichl | Yes | NYT | ||
| 67. | Glass Castle: A Memoir | Jeannette Walls | No | NYT | ||
| 68. | God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It | Jim Wallis | No | NYT | PW | |
| 69. | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Made the Leap … And Others Don't | Jim Collins | Yes | PW | ||
| 70. | Gourmet Cookbook | Ruth Reichel | Yes | PW | ||
| 71. | Guinness World Records 2006 | Guinness Editors | Yes | PW | ||
| 72. | Hallejuah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes | Maya Angelu | No | PW | ||
| 73. | He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys | Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo | Yes | PW | ||
| 74. | Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being | Andrew Weil | No | PW | ||
| 75. | His Excellency: George Washington | Joseph J. Ellis | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 76. | Home Rules: Rules You Can Live With and Design By | Nate Berkus | No | PW | ||
| 77. | How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter | Ann Coulter | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 78. | Idiot: Beating “The Curse” and Enjoying the Game of Life | Johnny Damon, Peter Golenbock | Yes | NYT | ||
| 79. | In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits | National Geographic Society | No | NYT | ||
| 80. | Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson | Keith Ablow | No | NYT | ||
| 81. | It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good | Rick Santorum | Yes | NYT | ||
| 82. | It's Called Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Breakup Buddy | Steve Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt | No | PW | ||
| 83. | It's My Party Too: Taking Back the Republican Party – And Bringing the Country Together Again | Christine Todd Whitman | No | NYT | ||
| 84. | Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of | Jeff Foxworthy | No | PW | ||
| 85. | Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big | Jose Canseco | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 86. | Lance Armstrong's War: One Man's Battle Against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France | Daniel Coyle | No | NYT | PW | |
| 87. | Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul | Phil Jackson, Michael Arkush | No | NYT | ||
| 88. | Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq | John Crawford | No | NYT | ||
| 89. | Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life | Clay Aiken | No | NYT | ||
| 90. | Liberalism is a Mental Disorder: Savage Solutions | Michael Savage | No | NYT | PW | |
| 91. | Life is Not a Fairy Tale | Fantasia | No | NYT | PW | |
| 92. | Lost Painting | Jonathan Harr | No | NYT | ||
| 93. | Lotus Grows in the Mud | Goldie Hawn, Wendy Holden | No | NYT | PW | |
| 94. | Love Smart: Find the One You Want, Fix the One You Got | Phil McGraw | No | PW | ||
| 95. | Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig | Jonathan Eig | Yes | NYT | ||
| 96. | Man Without a Country | Kurt Vonnegut | No | NYT | PW | |
| 97. | Mao:The Unknown Story | Jung Chang, Jon Halliday | Yes | NYT | ||
| 98. | Marley and Me: Love, Life, and Drywall Repair With the World's Worst Dog | John Grogan | No | NYT | PW | |
| 99. | Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build, or Manage a Business | Martha Stewart | Yes | PW | ||
| 100. | Matha Stewart's Baking Handbook | Martha Stewart | Yes | PW | ||
| 101. | Marv Levy: Where Else Would You Rather Be? | Marv Levy | No | NYT | ||
| 102. | Memory and Idenity: Conversations at the Dawn of a Millennium | Pope John Paul II | No | NYT | PW | |
| 103. | Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying American | Mark R. Levin | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 104. | Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke | Suze Orman | Yes | PW | ||
| 105. | Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles | Raymond Arroyo | No | NYT | ||
| 106. | Mother-Daughter Wisdon: Creating a Legacy of Personal and Emotional Health | Christiane Northrup | Yes | PW | ||
| 107. | My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror | Louis Freeh | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 108. | My Friend Leonard | James Frey | No | NYT | PW | |
| 109. | My Life | Bill Clinton | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 110. | My Life So Far | Jane Fonda | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 111. | Natural Cures “They” Don't Want You to Know About | Kevin Trudeau | No | PW | ||
| 112. | Never Have Your Dog Stuffed | Alan Alda | No | NYT | PW | |
| 113. | New Rules: Polite Musings from a Third Observer | Bill Maher | No | NYT | PW | |
| 114. | No Excuses! The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling and in Life | Kyle Maynard | No | NYT | PW | |
| 115. | Objection! How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System | Nancy Grace, Diane Clehane | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 116. | Oh the Glory of it All | Sean Wilsey | No | NYT | ||
| 117. | On Bullshit | Harry G. Frankfurt | No | NYT | PW | |
| 118. | One Soldier's Story | Bob Dole | No | NYT | PW | |
| 119. | Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis | Jimmy Carter | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 120. | Paper Life | Tatum O'Neal | No | NYT | ||
| 121. | Paula Deen and Friends: Living It Up, Southern Style | Paula H. Deen | Yes | PW | ||
| 122. | Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety | Judith Warner | Yes | NYT | ||
| 123. | Perricone Promise: Look Younger, Live Longer in Three Easy Steps | Nicholas Perricone | Yes | PW | ||
| 124. | Perricone Weight-Loss Diet: A Simple 3-Part Plan to Lose the Fat, the Wrinkles, and the Years | Nicholas Perricone | Yes | PW | ||
| 125. | Phenomenon: Everything You Need to Know About the Paranormal | Sylvia Browne | No | NYT | PW | |
| 126. | Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith | Anne Lamott | No | NYT | PW | |
| 127. | Pope John Paul II: A Tribute | Robert Sullivan | No | NYT | PW | |
| 128. | Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers | Thomas Oliphant | No | NYT | ||
| 129. | Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? | Rick Warren | No | PW | ||
| 130. | Rise, Let Us Be on Our Way | John Paul II | Yes | NYT | ||
| 131. | Romo: My Life on the Edge: Living Dreams and Slaying Dragons | Bill Romanowski, Adam Shefter | No | NYT | ||
| 132. | Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead | Phil Lesh | No | NYT | ||
| 133. | Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat | Bob Woodward | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 134. | Secrets and Mysteries of the World | Sylvia Browne | No | NYT | PW | |
| 135. | Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth | T. Harv Eker | Yes | PW | ||
| 136. | Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America | Jonathan Kozol | Yes | NYT | ||
| 137. | Sharing Good Times | Jimmy Carter | No | NYT | PW | |
| 138. | Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper | Jack Coughlan, Casey Kuhlman, Donald Davis | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 139. | Silent Witness: The Untold Story of Terry Schiavo's Death | Mark Fuhrman | No | NYT | PW | |
| 140. | Sinatra: The Life | Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 141. | Smashed: The Story of a Drunken Girlhood | Karen Zailckas | No | NYT | PW | |
| 142. | South Beach Diet | Arthur Agatston | Yes | PW | ||
| 143. | South Beach Diet Cookbook | Arthur Agatston | Yes | PW | ||
| 144. | Sports Illustrated 50 Years: The Anniversary Book | Sports Illustrated | No | NYT | ||
| 145. | Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary | James Luceno | No | PW | ||
| 146. | Start Late, Finish Rich: A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at Any Age | David Bach | Yes | PW | ||
| 147. | Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want To Be | Jack Canfield | Yes | PW | ||
| 148. | Survivor: President Clinton and His Times | John F. Harris | Yes | NYT | ||
| 149. | Suzanne Somers' Slim and Sexy Forever: The Hormone Solution for Permanent Weight Loss and Optimal Living | Suzanne Somers | No | PW | ||
| 150. | Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption | Christopher Kennedy Lawford | No | NYT | PW | |
| 151. | Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House | Ari Fleischer | Yes | NYT | ||
| 152. | Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today | Lynne Truss | No | NYT | PW | |
| 153. | Teacher Man: A Memoir | Frank McCourt | No | NYT | PW | |
| 154. | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 155. | Tender Bar: A Memoir | J. R. Moehringer | No | NYT | ||
| 156. | Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy, Inside the Mind of a Manager | Buzz Bissinger | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 157. | Three-Hour Diet: How Low Carb Makes You Fat and Timing Sculpts You Thin | Jorge Cruise | Yes | PW | ||
| 158. | Tori Amos: Piece by Piece: A Portrait of the Artist: Her Thoughts, Her Conversations | Tori Amos, Ann Powers | No | NYT | ||
| 159. | Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President | Edward Klein | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 160. | Truth (with Jokes) | Al Franken | No | NYT | PW | |
| 161. | Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang | William Queen | No | NYT | ||
| 162. | Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero | Ashley Smith, Stacy Mattingly | No | NYT | ||
| 163. | What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love | Carole Radziwill | No | NYT | PW | |
| 164. | What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America | Thomas Frank | Yes | NYT | ||
| 165. | When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? | George Carlin | No | NYT | PW | |
| 166. | Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion | Bruce Feiler | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 167. | Wild Ducks Flying Backward: The Short Writings of Tom Robbins | Tom Robbins | No | NYT | ||
| 168. | Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare | Stephen Greenblatt | Yes | NYT | ||
| 169. | Winning | Jack Welch, Suzy Welch | Yes | PW | ||
| 170. | Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America | Newt Gingrich | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 171. | Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson | Amber Frey | No | NYT | PW | |
| 172. | World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century | Thomas L. Friedman | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 173. | Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | No | NYT | PW | |
| 174. | You: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger | Michael F. Roizen | Yes | PW | ||
| 175. | Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond | Chris Crowley, Henry S. Lodge | No | PW | ||
| 176. | Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential | Joel Osteen | No | PW | ||
| 2005 Totals | |||||||
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On NYT |
On PW |
On Both |
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Titles: # Titles with indexes: % Titles with indexes: |
176 81 46% |
131 54 41% |
119 54 45% |
74 27 36% |
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For information about this year's foreign affairs and international relations bestsellers, link to
| Foreign Affairs 2005 |
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| 1975 to 1979 | 1990 to 1999 |
| 1980 to 1989 | 2000 to 2005 |