Bestselling books the week of 5/17/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

2. HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro, Knopf
 2. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, by Anna Quindlen, Random House
 3. Drift, by Rachel Maddow, Crown
 4. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, Knopf
 5. I Am a Pole (and So Can You!), by Stephen Colbert, Grand Central
 6. Prague Winter, by Madeleine Albright, Harper
 7. Are You My Mother?, by Alison Bechdel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
 8. Imagine, by Jonah Lehrer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
 9. Let's Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
 10. End This Depression Now!, by Paul Krugman, Norton
 11. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Random House
 12. Quiet, by Susan Cain, Crown
 13. This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More, by Augusten Burroughs, St. Martin's Press
 14. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice, by Terry Tempest Williams, FSG
 15. A Natural Woman, by Carole King, Grand Central

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