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Bestselling books the week of 6/18/15, 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. Check out the full IndieBound list below.

4. TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

  • By IndiBound

1. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, Penguin
2. I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai, Back Bay
3. David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay
4. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, Vintage
5. How Not to Be Wrong, by Jordan Ellenberg, Penguin
6. The Opposite of Loneliness, by Marina Keegan, Scribner
7. In the Kingdom of Ice, by Hampton Sides, Anchor
8. We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor
9. Things That Matter, by Charles Krauthammer, Crown Forum
10. What the Dog Knows, by Cat Warren, Touchstone
11. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence, by Harvard Business School Press
12. A Spy Among Friends, by Ben Macintyre, Broadway
13. Talk Like TED, by Carmine Gallo, St. Martin's Griffin
14. The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert, Picador USA
15. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Random House

On the Rise:
 16. A Deadly Wandering, by Matt Richtel, Morrow
 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Richtel examines the impact of technology on our lives through the story of a college student who killed two scientists while texting and driving.

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Mark Sappenfield
Editor

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”:

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