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