Bestselling books the week of 10/13/15, according to IndieBound*

Created by the American Booksellers Association, the IndieBound bestseller list uses data from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States to determine which books are flying fastest off the shelves on any given week.

2. HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. M Train, by Patti Smith, Knopf
2. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press
3. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau
4. Killing Reagan, by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt
5. Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead
6. Why Not Me?, by Mindy Kaling, Crown Archetype
7. Furiously Happy, by Jenny Lawson, Flatiron
8. A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction, by Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried, Blue Rider
9. Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande, Metropolitan
10. A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties, by Ben Carson Candy Carson, Sentinel
11. The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath, by Ben S. Bernanke, Norton
12. Rising Strong, by Brene Brown, Spiegel & Grau
13. Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari, Penguin Press
14. My Kitchen Year, by Ruth Reichl, Random House
15. The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough, S&S

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Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

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