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Weekly Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers, 2006
Each book that appeared in a weekly hardcover nonfiction bestseller list published by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly during 2006 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 1, 2006; Publishers Weekly's list is dated Monday, such as January 2, 2006. 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 2006 First 39 Weeks NYT for January 1, 2006 through September 10, 2006 PW for January 2, 2006 through September 11, 2006 |
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| 1. | 700 Sundays | Billy Crystal | No | NYT | PW | |
| 2. | 1776 | David McCullough | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 3. | Alphabet of Manliness | Maddox | No | PW | ||
| 4. | America: The Last Best Hope | William J. Bennett | No | NYT | PW | |
| 5. | American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation | Jon Meachem | No | NYT | PW | |
| 6. | American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century | Kevin Phillips | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 7. | American Vertigo: Traveling in America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville | Bernard-Henry Levy | Yes | NYT | ||
| 8. | Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide | Maureen Dowd | No | NYT | PW | |
| 9. | Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf? The Best Legal Whorehouse in Texas, the Scheme to Steal the Election of '08, No Child's Left Behind, and Other Investigative Stings | Greg Palast | No | NYT | PW | |
| 10. | At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 | Taylor Branch | Yes | NYT | ||
| 11. | Automatic Millionaire Homeowner: A Powerful Plan to Finish Rich in Real Estate | David Bach | Yes | PW | ||
| 12. | Bad Childhood, Good Life: How to Blossom and Thrive in Spite of an Unhappy Childhood | Laura Schlesinger | No | PW | ||
| 13. | Barbra: The Way She Is | Christoper P. Andersen | No | NYT | ||
| 14. | Beatles: The Biography | Bob Spitz | Yes | NYT | ||
| 15. | Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind | Beppe Severgnini | No | NYT | ||
| 16. | Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters | Dick Winters, Cole C. Kingseed | No | NYT | ||
| 17. | Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth | Leigh Montville | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 18. | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 19. | Bulger Brothers: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century | Howie Carr | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 20. | Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob | Kevin Weeks, Phyllis Karas | No | NYT | ||
| 21. | Burnt Toast and Other Philosophies of Life | Terry Hatcher, Hilary Liftin | No | NYT | PW | |
| 22. | Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems | Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier | No | PW | ||
| 23. | City of Falling Angels | John Berendt | No | NYT | PW | |
| 24. | Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero | David Maraniss | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 25. | COBRA II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq | Michael R. Gordon, Bernard E. Trainor | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 26. | Confessions of a Video Vixen: A Cautionary Tale of Life in the Fast Lane | Karrine Steffans, Karen Hunter | No | NYT | ||
| 27. | Confident Woman: Start Today Living Boldly and Without Fear | Joyce Meyer | No | PW | ||
| 28. | Conservatives Without Conscience | John W. Dean | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 29. | Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers | Michael Connelly | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 30. | Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like, Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar? | Dave Barry | No | NYT | ||
| 31. | Death in Belmont | Sebastian Junger | No | NYT | PW | |
| 32. | Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival | Anderson Cooper | No | NYT | PW | |
| 33. | Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life | Tyler Perry | No | NYT | PW | |
| 34. | Eat, Pray, Love: 108 Tales About One Woman's Search for Pleasure, Devotion, and Balance Across Italy, India, and Indonesia | Elizabeth Gilbert | No | NYT | ||
| 35. | Education of a Coach | David Halberstam | No | NYT | PW | |
| 36. | Elizabeth | J. Randy Taraborrelli | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 37. | Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America - And What We Can Do About It | Juan Williams | Yes | NYT | ||
| 38. | Exploring the Levels of Creation | Sylvia Browne | No | PW | ||
| 39. | Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top | Seth Mnookin | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 40. | Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq | Thomas E. Ricks | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 41. | For Laci: A Mother's Story | Sharon Rocha | No | NYT | PW | |
| 42. | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Stephen J. Dubner | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 43. | French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure | Mireille Guiliano | Yes | PW | ||
| 44. | Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroid Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports | Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams | No | NYT | PW | |
| 45. | Giada's Family Dinners | Giada De Laurentiis | Yes | PW | ||
| 46. | Godless: The Church of Liberalism | Ann Coulter | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 47. | Gospel of Judas | Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, Gregor Wurs | No | NYT | PW | |
| 48. | Great Deluge: Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast | Douglas Brinkley | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 49. | Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Tradition | Karen Armstrong | Yes | NYT | ||
| 50. | Heat: An Amateur's Adventure as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany | Bill Buford | No | NYT | PW | |
| 51. | Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme | Calvin Trillin | No | NYT | ||
| 52. | Home with God: In a Life that Never Ends: A Wondrous Message of Love in a Final Conversation with God | Neale Donald Walsch | No | NYT | ||
| 53. | I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts About Being a Woman | Nora Ephron | No | NYT | ||
| 54. | I Had the Right to Remain Silent - But I Didn't Have the Ability | Ron White | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 55. | If You Could See What I See: The Tenets of Novus Spiritus | Sylvia Browne | No | PW | ||
| 56. | Insight: Case Files from the Psychic World | Syliva Browne, Lindsay Harrison | No | NYT | PW | |
| 57. | Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling | Wayne W. Dyer | No | PW | ||
| 58. | Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-up in History | Michael Baigent | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 59. | Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World | James J. Cramer | Yes | PW | ||
| 60. | Just Peace: A Message of Hope | Mattie J. T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter | No | NYT | ||
| 61. | Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief | Francis Collins | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 62. | Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four | John Feinstein | Yes | NYT | ||
| 63. | Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady | Ronald Kessler | Yes | NYT | ||
| 64. | Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust | Immaculée Iligabiza, Steve Erwin | No | NYT | PW | |
| 65. | Lies at the Alter: The Truth About Great Marriages | Robin L. Smith | Yes | PW | ||
| 66. | Little Book That Beaths the Marker | Joel Greenblatt | No | PW | ||
| 67. | Long Tail: The Revolution Changing Small Markets Into Big Business | Chris Anderson | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 68. | Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | Lawrence Wright | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 69. | Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot | Herbert Krosney | No | NYT | PW | |
| 70. | Lost Painting | Jonathan Harr | No | NYT | ||
| 71. | Love Smart: Find the One You Want, Fix the One You Got | Phil McGraw | No | PW | ||
| 72. | Mama Made the Difference: Lessons My Mother Taught Me | T. D. Jakes | No | PW | ||
| 73. | Man Without a Country | Kurt Vonnegut | No | NYT | PW | |
| 74. | Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer | James L. Swanson | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 75. | Marley and Me: Love, Life, and Drywall Repair With the World's Worst Dog | John Grogan | No | NYT | PW | |
| 76. | Mayflower: The Pilgrims and Their Legacy | Nathaniel Philbrick | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 77. | Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs | Madeleine Albright | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 78. | Million Little Pieces | James Frey | No | NYT | ||
| 79. | Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home | Nanda Parrado, Vince Rause | No | NYT | ||
| 80. | Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why | Bart D. Ehrman | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 81. | Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee | Charles J. Shields | Yes | NYT | ||
| 82. | More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease | Kevin Trudeau | No | PW | ||
| 83. | My Friend Leonard | James Frey | No | NYT | PW | |
| 84. | My Life In and Out of the Rough: The Truth Behind All That Bull**** You Think You Know About Me | John Daly | No | NYT | PW | |
| 85. | My Life In France | Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 86. | Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know is Wrong | John Stossel | No | NYT | PW | |
| 87. | Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About | Kevin Trudeau | No | PW | ||
| 88. | Night | Elie Wiesel | No | NYT | ||
| 89. | Number: What Life Do You Want, and How Much Will It Cost? | Lee Eisenberg | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 90. | Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Michael Pollan | Yes | NYT | ||
| 91. | One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 | Ron Suskind | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 92. | Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis | Jimmy Carter | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 93. | Overcoming Life's Disappointments | Harold S. Kushner | No | NYT | PW | |
| 94. | Political Zoo | Michael Savage | No | NYT | PW | |
| 95. | Possible Side Effects: True Stories | Augesten Burroughs | No | NYT | PW | |
| 96. | Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? | Rick Warren | No | PW | ||
| 97. | Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them | Francine Prose | No | NYT | ||
| 98. | Right Words for the Right Time, Vol. 2 | Marlo Thomas | No | NYT | PW | |
| 99. | Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing | Phil Town | Yes | PW | ||
| 100. | Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again | Nora Vincent | No | NYT | PW | |
| 101. | Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life | Gail Sheehy | Yes | NYT | ||
| 102. | Skin Type Solution: A Revolutionary Guide to Your Best Skin Ever | Leslie Baumann | Yes | PW | ||
| 103. | Sonoma Diet | Connie Guttersen | Yes | PW | ||
| 104. | State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America | Patrick J. Buchanan | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 105. | State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration | James Risen | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 106. | Strategery: How George W. Bush is Outwitting the Media and Defeating His Enemies at Home and Abroad | Bill Sammon | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 107. | Stumbling on Happiness | Daniel Gilbert | No | NYT | ||
| 108. | T. O. | Terrell Owens, Jason Rosenhaus | No | NYT | ||
| 109. | Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today | Lynne Truss | No | NYT | PW | |
| 110. | Teacher Man: A Memoir | Frank McCourt | No | NYT | PW | |
| 111. | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 112. | Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terror and Build Nations - One School at a Time | Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin | Yes | NYT | ||
| 113. | Truth (with Jokes) | Al Franken | No | NYT | PW | |
| 114. | UltraMetabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss | Mark Hyman | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 115. | We Are Their Heaven: Why the Dead Never Leave Us | Allison DuBois | No | NYT | ||
| 116. | What Jesus Meant | Garry Wills | No | NYT | ||
| 117. | Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: Sports, Family, and the Pursuit of Sanity | Mike Greenberg | No | NYT | ||
| 118. | Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography | Lou Holtz | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 119. | Wisdon of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons | Tim Russert | No | NYT | PW | |
| 120. | World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century | Thomas L. Friedman | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 121. | World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Updated and Expanded) | Thomas L. Friedman | Yes | PW | ||
| 122. | Year in the World: Journey of a Passionate Traveller | Frances Mayes | No | PW | ||
| 123. | Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | No | NYT | PW | |
| 124. | You: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger | Michael F. Roizen | Yes | PW | ||
| 125. | You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation | Deborah Tannen | Yes | NYT | PW | |
| 126. | Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential | Joel Osteen | No | PW | ||
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2006 Totals First 39 Weeks |
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Over- all |
On NYT |
On PW |
On Both |
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Titles: # Titles with indexes: % Titles with indexes: |
126 58 46% |
102 48 47% |
94 46 49% |
70 36 51% |
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For information about this year's foreign affairs and international relations bestsellers, link to
| Foreign Affairs 2006 |
For information about other weekly hardcover nonfiction bestsellers, link to pages for the years
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
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 |