Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Jack Kerouac's 'The Sea Is My Brother' And Other Lost Novels


The Best Dystopian Books About Materialism


PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS



HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "Kill Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
2. "11/22/63" by Stephen King (Scribner)
3. "V is for Vengeance" by Sue Grafton (Putnam Adult)
4. "The Litigators" by John Grisham (Doubleday)
5. "The Best of Me" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
6. "Zero Day" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
7. "Devil's Gate" by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown (Putnam Adult)
8. "IQ84" by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
9. "The Alloy of Law" by Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
10. "The Prague Cemetery" by Umberto Eco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
11. "The Snow Angel" by Glenn Beck and Nicole Baart (Threshold Editions)
12. "Star Wars" The Old Republic: Revan" by Drew Karpyshyn (LucasBooks)
13. "The Christmas Wedding" by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo (Little, Brown)
14. "Hotel Vendome" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press)
15. "Dollhouse" by Kourtney, Kim & Khloe Kardashian (William Morrow)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. "Steve Jobs: A Biography" by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
2. "Throw Them All Out" by Peter Schweizer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
3. "Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry Holt and Co.)
4. "Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony" by Jeff Ashton and Lisa Pulitzer (William Morrow)
5. "Back to Work" by Bill Clinton (Knopf)
6. "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero" by Chris Matthews (Simon & Schuster)
7. "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope" by Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly and Jeffrey Zaslow (Scribner)
8. "Nearing Home" by Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson)
9. "Then Again" by Diane Keaton (Random House)
10. "Catherine the Great" by Robert K Massie (Random House)
11. "Spontaneous Happiness" by Andrew Weil (Little, Brown)
12. "No Higher Honor" by Condoleezza Rice (Crown)
13. "How I Got This Way" by Regis Philbin (It Books)
14. "SEAL Target Geronimo" by Chuck Pfarrer (St. Martin's)
15. "The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass" by Bill Maher (Blue Rider Press)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. "Smokin' Seventeen: A Stephanie Plum Novel" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)
2. "The Guardian" by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Paperbacks)
3. "Secrets to the Grave" by Tami Hoag (Signet)
4. "Bring Me Home for Christmas" by Robyn Carr (Mira)
5. "Crescent Dawn" by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Berkley)
6. "The Perfect Christmas" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
7. "What the Night Knows" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)
8. "Miracle Cure" by Harlan Coben (Signet)
9. "The Valcourt Heiress" by Catherine Coulter (Jove)
10. "Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
11. "Gideon's Sword" by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (Vision)
12. "Secondhand Bride" by Linda Lael Miller (Pocket)
13. "Not Your Ordinary Faerie Tale" by Christine Warren (St. Martin's Paperback)
14. "Cross Fire" by James Patterson (Vision)
15. "Touched by Angels" by Debbie Macomber (HarperPaperbacks)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. "Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back" by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Colton Burpo and Lynn Vincent (Thomas Nelson)
2. "The Next Always" by Nora Roberts (Berkley)
3. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam Adult)
4. "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin's Griffin)
5. "Sing You Home" by Jodi Picoult (Atria/Emily Bestler Books)
6. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
7. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot (Broadway)
8. "The Tiger's Wife" by Tea Obreht (Random House)
9. "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)
10. "The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel" by Garth Stein (Harper)
11. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
12. "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis (Norton)
13. "Assholes Finish first" by Tucker Max (Gallery)
14. "Room: A Novel" by Emma Donoghue (LB/Back Bay)
15. "An Object of Beauty: A Novel" by Steve Martin (Grand Central Publishing)

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Amazon Offers Lending Library On The Kindle To Amazon Prime Subscribers


Barnes & Noble Preps Nook Tablet

 

Publishers Weekly Bestsellers: The Week's Hottest Reads


10 Books That Will Scare You


Publishers Weekly: Best Books Of 2011


Monday, October 17, 2011

Book Club Meeting Tonight, Monday October 17th At 6:00 PM


Welcome back, book clubbers! We will meet tonight, Monday October 17th at 6:00 PM.
See you at the library!

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Publishers Weekly Best Sellers


HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "New York to Dallas" by J.D. Robb (Putnam)
2. "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)
3. "Kill Me If You Can" by James Patterson and Marshall Karp (Little, Brown)
4. "Abuse of Power" by Michael Savage (St. Martin's)
5. "Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues" by Michael Brandman (Putnam)
6. "A Dance With Dragons" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
7. "The Race" by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott (Putnam)
8. "The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown)
9. "How Firm a Foundation" by David Weber (Tor)
10. "Goddess of Vengeance" by Jackie Collins (St. Martin's)
11. "Dark Predator" by Christine Feehan (Berkley)
12. "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain (Ballantine)
13. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larrson (Knopf)
14. "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett (Harper)
15. "Only Time Will Tell" by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin's)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. "Jacqueline Kennedy" foreword by Caroline Kennedy (Hyperion)
2. "Every Day a Friday" by Joel Osteen (FaithWords)
3. "That Used to Be Us" by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
4. "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries (Crown)
5. "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir" by Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney (Threshold Editions)
6. "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)
7. "A Stolen Life" by Jaycee Dugard (Simon & Schuster)
8. "Pearl Jam Twenty" by Pearl Jam (Simon & Schuster)
9. "The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Design for Rapid Results" by Dr. Mike Moreno (Free Press)
10. "Go the F--k to Sleep" by Adam Mansbach and Illustrations by Ricardo Cortes (Avon)
11. "Here Comes Trouble" by Michael Moore (Grand Central)
12. "Living Beyond Your Feelings" by Joyce Meyer (FaithWords)
13. "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson (Crown)
14. "The Black Banners" by Ali H. Soufan with Daniel Freedman (Norton)
15. "Arguably" by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. "Port Mortuary" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)
2. "1105 Yakima Street by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
3. "American Assassin: A Thriller" by Vince Flynn (Pocket)
4. "The Confession: A Novel" by John Grisham (Dell)
5. "Lost Empire" by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood (Berkley)
6. "The Reversal" by Michael Connelly (Vision)
7. "Envy" by J.R. Ward (Signet)
8. "A Storm of Swords" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
9. "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin (Spectra)
10. "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
11. "Strategic Moves" by Stuart Woods (Signet)
12. "The Emperor's Tomb" by Steve Berry (Ballantine)
13. "Painted Ladies" by Robert P. Parker (Berkley)
14. "The Inner Circle" by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central)
15. "Wicked Appetite" by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam Adult)
2. "Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back" by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Colton Burpo and Lynn Vincent (Thomas Nelson)
3. "The Sixth Man" by David Baldacci (Grand Central)
4. "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin's Griffin)
5. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot (Broadway)
6. "Cleopatra" by Stacy Schiff (LB/Back Bay)
7. "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)
8. "One Day" by David Nicholls (Vintage)
9. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (LB/Back Bay)
10. "Room" by Emma Donoghue (LB/Back Bay)
11. "Safe Haven" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
12. "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis (Norton)
13. "Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy" by Ken Follett (NAL)
14. "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein (Harper)
15. "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang" by Chelsea Handler (Grand Central)

Monday, September 19, 2011

Book Club Meeting Tonight -Monday September 19th at 6:00 P.M

 
Welcome back, book clubbers! Our first meeting after the short summer hiatus will be tonight, Monday, Sept. 19th at 6:00 P.M. We will start the first meeting sharing all the great reads from this summer and pick a title for next month.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Classic Celebrity Memoirs And Their Contemporary Counterparts


Publishers Weekly Bestsellers



HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "A Dance With Dragons" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
2. "Portrait of a Spy" by Daniel Silva (Harper)
3. "Happy Birthday: A Novel" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press)
4. "Split Second" by Catherine Coulter (Putnam Adult)
5. "Now You See Her" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)
6. "Smokin' Seventeen" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)
7. "Then Came You" by Jennifer Weiner (Atria)
8. "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett (Harper)9. "Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Dominion" by Eric Van Lustbader (Grand Central Publishing)
10. "Against All Enemies" by Tom Clancy and Peter Telep (Putnam Adult)
11. "One Summer" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
12. "Burnt Mountain" by Anne Rivers Siddons (Grand Central Publishing)
13. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
14. "Maine" by J. Courtney Sullivan (Knopf)
15. "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain (Ballantine)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. "A Stolen Life" by Jaycee Dugard (Simon & Schuster)
2. "Go the F--k to Sleep" by Adam Mansbach and Illustrations by Ricardo Cortes (Avon)
3. "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)
4. "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson (Crown)
5. "The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Design for Rapid Results" by Dr. Mike Moreno (Free Press)
6. "Bossypants" by Tina Fey (Reagan Arthur)
7. "The Greater Journey" by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
8. "The Dukan Diet" by Pierre Dukan (Crown Archetype)
9. "Of Thee I Zing" by Laura Ingraham with Raymond Arroyo (Threshold)
10. "SEAL Team Six" by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin (St. Martin's Press)
11. "The 4-Hour Body" by Timothy Ferriss (Crown)
12. "Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me" by Chelsea's Family, Friends & Other Victims (Grand Central Publishing)
13. "Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon" by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner (Times Books)
14. "20 Years Younger: Look Younger, Feel Younger, Be Younger!" by Bob Greene (Little, Brown)
15. "Swing Your Sword: Leading the Charge in Football and Life" by Mike Leach (Diversion)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. "The Confession: A Novel" by John Grisham (Dell)
2. "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin (Spectra)
3. "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
4. "Hell's Corner" by David Baldacci (Vision)
5. "Sizzling Sixteen" by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's Paperbacks)
6. "A Storm of Swords" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
7. "Whiplash" by Catherine Coulter (Jove)
8. "A Feast for Crows" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
9. "Family Ties: A Novel" by Danielle Steel (Dell)
10. "The Rembrandt Affair" by Daniel Silva (Signet)
11. "Tough Customer: A Novel" by Sandra Brown (Pocket Star)
12. "Spider Bones" by Kathy Reichs (Pocket)
13. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
14. "Betrayal" by Fern Michaels (Zebra)
15. "Worst Case" by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge (Vision)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam Adult)
2. "Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back" by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Colton Burpo and Lynn Vincent (Thomas Nelson)
3. "Water for Elephants: A Novel" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
4. "Room" by Emma Donoghue (LB/Back Bay)
5. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot (Broadway)
6. "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin's Griffin)
7. "One Day" by David Nicholls (Vintage)
8. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (LB/Back Bay)
9. "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)
10. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)
11. "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
12. "The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)
13. "The Postcard Killers" by James Patterson & Liza Marklund (Grand Central Publishing)
14. "Empire of the Summer Moon" by S.C. Gwynne (Scribner)
15. "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein (Harper)

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Horror's 'Shock Value' Redefined In The 1960s


Find Reviews On The Book Blogs Search Engine


Publishers Weekly Bestsellers



HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "Now You See Her" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)
2. "Smokin' Seventeen" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)
3. "Against All Enemies" by Tom Clancy and Peter Telep (Putnam Adult)
4. "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett (Harper)
5. "One Summer" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
6. "The Devil Colony" by James Rollins (William Morrow)
7. "Silver Girl: A Novel" by Elin Hilderbrand (Reagan Arthur Books)
8. "Folly Beach: A Lowcountry Tale" by Dorothea Benton Frank (William Morrow)
9. "Maine" by J. Courtney Sullivan (Knopf)
10. "Carte Blanche" by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster)
11. "Sisterhood Everlasting: A Novel" by Ann Brashares (Random House)
12. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
13. "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain (Ballantine)
14. "The Hypnotist" by Lars Kepler (FSG/Sarah Crichton)
15. "Dead Reckoning" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. "Go the F--k to Sleep" by Adam Mansbach and Illustrations by Ricardo Cortes (Avon)
2. "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)
3. "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson (Crown)
4. "The Aging Myth" by Joseph Chang (Aylesbury)
5. "Bossypants" by Tina Fey (Reagan Arthur)
6. "The Greater Journey" by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
7. "The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Design for Rapid Results" by Dr. Mike Moreno (Free Press)
8. "The Miracle of Freedom" by Chris Stewart & Ted Stewart (Shadow Mountain)
9. "The Dukan Diet" by Pierre Dukan (Crown Archetype)
10. "Clinch" by Cynthia Cass (HarperOne)
11. "Reckless Endangerment" by Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner (Times Books)
12. "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America" by Ann Coulter (Crown Forum)
13. "How to Get Out of Your Own Way" by Tyrese Gibson (Grand Central)
14. "Through My Eyes" by Tim Tebow and Nathan Whitaker (Harper)
15. "Lost in Shangri-La" by Mitchell Zuckoff (Harper)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "Hell's Corner" by David Baldacci (Vision)
2. "The Creed Legacy" by Linda Lael Miller (HQN)
3. "Sizzling Sixteen" by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's Paperbacks)
4. "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
5. "Deeper than Midnight" by Lara Adrian (Dell)
6. "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin (Spectra)
7. "Tough Customer: A Novel" by Sandra Brown (Pocket Star)
8. "A Storm of Swords" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
9. "Savor the Danger" by Lori Foster (HQN)
10. "A Feast for Crows" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
11. "Worst Case" by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Vision)
12. "Heartless" by Gail Carriger (Orbit)
13. "Betrayal" by Fern Michaels (Zebra)
14. "The Spy" by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott (Berkley)
15. "Veil of Night" by Linda Howard (Ballantine)

TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam Adult)
2. "Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back" by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Colton Burpo and Lynn Vincent (Thomas Nelson)
3. "Room" by Emma Donoghue (LB/Back Bay)
4. "The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)
5. "Water for Elephants: A Novel" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
6. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot (Broadway)
7. "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)
8. "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan (Anchor)
9. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (LB/Back Bay)
10. "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein (Harper)
11. "One Day" by David Nicholls (Vintage)
12. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne)
13. "A Dog's Purpost" by W. Bruce Cameron (Forge)
14. "The Glass Castle: A Memoir" by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)
15. "Unlikely Friendships" by Jennifer S. Holland (Workman)