NONFICTION BESTSELLERS: 'The Truth' Comes to the Nonfiction Top Five

Al Franken just wants to tell the truth. The Air America radio-show host released his latest book, The Truth (with Jokes), on Oct. 25 and it is already No. 3 on the Nonfiction Chart this week, selling 35,000 units. On Oct. 21, on The Late Show with David Letterman, Franken made some controversial statements about the Valerie Plame case, which caused some backlash from right-wing bloggers: "George H.W. Bush, the President's father, was the head of the C.I.A., and he has said that outing a C.I.A. agent is treason?what it looks like is going to happen is that Libby and Karl Rove are going to be executed." But the controversy and media appearances including the Today show and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, have kept Franken in the news and his books selling on the shelves. Franken is currently in the middle of a book tour and will appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight. Meanwhile, another politically minded book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, sold 27,000 units last week to take the No. 4 spot on the Nonfiction chart.

Story continues belowNonfiction Chart, for the week ending Oct. 30, 2005: ?

1. A MILLION LITTLE PIECES, James Frey (Anchor, Paperback, 0307276902)
2. HEALTHY AGING, Andrew Weil, M.D. (Knopf, Hardcover, 0375407553)
3. THE TRUTH (WITH JOKES), Al Franken (Dutton Adult, Hardcover, 0525949062)
4. TEAM OF RIVALS, Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, Hardcover, 0684824906)
5. NATURAL CURES "THEY" DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT, Kevin Trudeau (Alliance Publishing, Hardcover, 0975599518)