1 Dreams From My Father
by Barack Obama
Last week 1 Weeks on list 4
Sales last week 23,920 To date 103,840
(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 2 Weeks on list 3
Sales last week 16,395 To date 112,345
(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 3 Weeks on list 7
Sales last week 8,505 To date 55,865
(Profile £7.99)
Answers to questions from New Scientist’s Last Word column
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4 Monster
by Allan Hall
Last week 4 Weeks on list 4
Sales last week 5,945 To date 24,900
(Penguin £6.99)
Detailed investigation into the horrific crimes of Josef Fritzl
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5 Shakespeare: The World as a Stage
by Bill Bryson
Last week 8 Weeks on list 34
Sales last week 4,460 To date 240,210
(HarperPerennial £7.99)
Investigation of the myths surrounding the Bard
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6 The Duchess
by Amanda Foreman
Last week 6 Weeks on list 14
Sales last week 4,125 To date 117,100
(HarperPerennial £7.99)
The story of Georgiana, the flamboyant Duchess of Devonshire
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The Duchess against today's icons

7 Who Runs Britain?
by Robert Peston
Last week 13 Weeks on list 1
Sales last week 3,950 To date 10,945
(Hodder £7.99)
The BBC Business Editor investigates the impact of the global credit crunch
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8 Sold
by Tess Stevens
Last week 5 Weeks on list 3
Sales last week 3,845 To date 14,360
(Hodder £6.99)
A childhood lost to prostitution and the criminal underworld
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9 My Booky Wook
by Russell Brand
Last week 9 Weeks on list 20
Sales last week 3,735 To date 200,470
(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

10 Mamma Mia!
by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus
New entry
Sales last week 3,605 To date 5,590
(Phoenix £9.99)
The inside story of Mamma Mia: The Movie, and the songs of Abba
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