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)