Bestselling books the week of 7/28/16, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America?

2. Hardcover Nonfiction

Hamilton: The Revolution Lin-Manuel Miranda Grand Central Publishing 288 pages

1. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, Random House 
2. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau
3. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press
4. Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter, Grand Central
5. White Trash by Nancy Isenberg, Viking 
6. Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne, Center Street 
7. Grunt by Mary Roach, Norton
8. Tribe by Sebastian Junger, Twelve 
9. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, Scribner 
10. But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman, Blue Rider
11. Grit by Angela Duckworth, Scribner
12. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli, Riverhead 
13. The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner
14. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, Metropolitan
15. You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein, Grand Central 

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Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

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