Atomic's 2012 Best Sellers: Non-Fiction

These are the 30 best selling non-fiction titles at Atomic Books in 2012.



1. Role Models by John Waters
2. Baltimore Sounds by Joe Vaccarino
3. Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain



4. Baltimore Beer by Rob Kasper
5. We Learn Nothing by Tim Kreider
6. Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making The Biggest Mistake Of Your Life by Sarah Miller



7. Kitchen Confidential (Insider's Ed.) by Anthony Bourdain
8. Shock Value by John Waters
9. How Music Works by David Byrne



10. Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
11. Miami, You've Got Style! by Zach Auburn / Scott
12. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 by Dave Eggers
 


13. Crackpot by John Waters
14. Rookie Yearbook by Tavi Gevinson
15. America Again by Stephen Colbert
 


16. Dark Side of Disney by Leonard Kinsey
17. How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran
18. Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer



19. Supergods by Grant Morrison
20. Metalion by Jon Kristiansen
21. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens



22. Bossypants by Tina Fey
23. 33 1/3 Vol. 86: Talking Head's Fear Of Music by Jonathan Lethem
24. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling



25. People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
26. Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
27. Little Book of Breasts by Dian Hanson



28. My Heart Is An Idiot by Davy Rothbart
29. We Got The Power by David Markey / Jordan Schwartz
30. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

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