Best Seller Round-Up

"Biography lends to death a new terror." - Oscar Wilde.

I. The New York Times
Published January 16, 2009.

Fiction Paperback (Trade): The Shack, William P. Young.
Fiction Hardcover: Plum Spooky, Janet Evanovich.



Nonfiction Paperback: Marley & Me, John Grogan.
Nonfiction Hardcover: Outliers, The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell.


II. Los Angeles Times

Fiction Paperback: Twilight, Stephenie Meyer.
Fiction Hardcover: Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer.
Nonfiction Paperback: Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama.
Nonfiction Hardcover: Outliers, The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell.

III. Northern California Independent Booksellers
For the week ending January 11, 2009.

Fiction Paperback (Trade): Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates.
Fiction Paperback (Mass Market): Betrayal, John Lescroart.



Fiction Hardcover: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows.
Nonfiction Paperback: Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama.
Nonfiction Hardcover: Outliers, The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell.

IV. Heartland Indie Bestseller List (Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association)
For the week ending January 11, 2009.

Fiction Paperback: The Shack, William P. Young.
Fiction Hardcover: Plum Spooky, Janet Evanovich.
Nonfiction Paperback: Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin.
Nonfiction Hardcover: Dewy, The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Vicki Myron.

Now, if it was a bobcat in the library, then you'd have a story.