Top Political Titles

1. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
(Harper, $27.99). By John Heilemann & Mark Halperin

2. On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
(Business Plus, $28.99). By Henry M. Paulson Jr.

3. The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down (Thomas Dunne, $24.99). By Andrew Young

4. Staying True (Ballantine, $25). By Jenny Sanford

5. The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr
(Crown, $35). By Ken Gormley

6. Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack
(Regnery, $29.95). By Marc A. Thiessen

7. Going Rogue: An American Life (Harper, $28.99). By Sarah Palin

8. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves
(Viking, $32.95) By Andrew Ross Sorkin

9. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
(Norton, $27.95). By Joseph E. Stiglitz

10. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
(Crown Business, $27). By Scott Patterson

11. The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
(Basic, $26.95). By Diane Ravitch

12. Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges
(Thomson West, $29.95). By Antonin Scalia & Bryan A. Garner

Drawn from Book World's bestseller data supplied by Nielsen BookScan for the week ending Feb. 21. The charts may not be reproduced without permission from Nielsen BookScan. Copyright © 2010 by Nielsen BookScan.