The Indie Biography & Memoir Bestseller List

The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.

Here is the American Booksellers Association’s Indie Biography & Memoir Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending November 14, 2021.
 

1. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl, Dey Street Books, $29.99, 9780063076099

2. Taste: My Life Through Food
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $28, 9781982168018

3. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe, Harper, $30, 9780062964618

4. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
David Sedaris, Little, Brown, $32, 9780316558792

5. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657743

6. Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Tarana Burke, Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, $28.99, 9781250621733

7. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258

8. The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
Ron Howard, Clint Howard, Morrow, $28.99, 9780063065246

9. Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Joy Harjo, Norton, $25, 9780393248524

10. No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)
Kate Bowler, Random House, $27, 9780593230770

11. The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
Paul McCartney, Liveright, $100, 9781631492563

12. Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $29.99, 9780062909107

13. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Mike Duncan, PublicAffairs, $30, 9781541730335

14. Going There
Katie Couric, Little, Brown, $30, 9780316535861

15. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Lucy Adlington, Harper, $17.99, 9780063030930

16. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
John Green, Dutton, $28, 9780525555216

17. Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Lulu Miller, Simon & Schuster, $17, 9781501160349

18. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $30, 9780593139134

19. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198

20. Orwell's Roses
Rebecca Solnit, Viking, $28, 9780593083369

21. Beautiful Country: A Memoir
Qian Julie Wang, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385547215

22. The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
Rick Bragg, Knopf, $26, 9780525658818

23. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $16.99, 9780060899226

24. Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship
Catherine Raven, Spiegel & Grau, $28, 9781954118003

25. Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
Phoebe Robinson, Tiny Reparations Books, $27, 9780593184905