1 Dreams From My Father
by Barack Obama
Last week 1 Weeks on list 9
Sales last week 36,875 To date 293,905
(Canongate £8.99)
Illuminating memoir confronting Obama’s divided inheritance
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Obama: Lessons in racism

2 The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama
Last week 3 Weeks on list 8
Sales last week 27,195 To date 234,515
(Canongate £8.99)
America’s president-elect on his values and his country’s future
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3 Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?
Last week 2 Weeks on list 12
Sales last week 20,050 To date 154,255
(Profile £7.99)
Answers to questions from New Scientist’s Last Word column
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4 No One Listened
by Isobel and Alex Kerr
Last week 5 Weeks on list 2
Sales last week 10,585 To date 28,230
(Harper Element £6.99)
A brother and sister’s tale of a brutal childhood
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5 Shakespeare: The World as a Stage
by Bill Bryson
Last week 4 Weeks on list 39
Sales last week 8,730 To date 278,915
(HarperPerennial £7.99)
Investigation of the myths surrounding the Bard
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6 Who Runs Britain?
by Robert Peston
Last week 6 Weeks on list 6
Sales last week 8,090 To date 45,200
(Hodder £7.99)
The BBC business editor investigates the impact of the credit crunch
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7 Mamma Mia!
by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus
Last week 14 Weeks on list 3
Sales last week 7,700 To date 229,860
(Phoenix £9.99)
The inside story of Mamma Mia: The Movie, and the songs of Abba
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8 My Booky Wook
by Russell Brand
Last week 11 Weeks on list 24
Sales last week 7,010 To date 229,860
(Hodder £7.99)
Television personality’s frank memoir of sex and drugs and rock’n’roll
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David Baddiel: curious incident of the ghostwriter

9 Wall and Piece
by Banksy
Last week 13 Weeks on list 1
Sales last week 5,780 To date 199,180
(Century £12.99)
A collection of the Bristol-born enigma’s most iconic graffiti
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The artist formerly known as Banksy

10 Monster
by Allan Hall
Last week 18 Weeks on list 7
Sales last week 5,765 To date 51,690
(Penguin £6.99)
Detailed investigation into the horrific crimes of Josef Fritzl
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List prepared by The Bookseller using data supplied by and copyright to Nielsen BookScan for the week ending 27/12/08.

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