Best Seller Round-Up

"I am a completely horizontal author.
I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
As the afternoon wears on, I shift from coffee to mint tea to sherry to martinis.
No, I don't use a typewriter."

- Truman Capote in 1956.
Responding to the question "[w]hat are your writing habits".

From The Paris Review Interviews.

A number of new books in the number one spots this week, including something by a "Glenn Beck". Who is this person, "Glenn Beck"?

I. The New York Times.

Published June 26, 2009.

Fiction Paperback (Trade): The Shack, William P. Young.
Fiction Hardcover: Knockout, Catherine Coulter.

Nonfiction Paperback: Glenn Beck's 'Common Sense', Glenn Beck.

Nonfiction Hardcover: Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin.

II. Los Angeles Times.
Published June 28, 2009.

Fiction Paperback: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
Fiction Hardcover: Shanghai Girls, Lisa See.
Nonfiction Paperback: Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
Nonfiction Hardcover: Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell.

III. Northern California Independent Booksellers.
For the week ending June 21, 2009.

Fiction Paperback (Trade): The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows.
Fiction Hardcover: The Angel’s Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
Nonfiction Paperback: Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
Nonfiction Hardcover: Home Game, Michael Lewis.

IV. Heartland Indie Bestseller List.
Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association
For the week ending June 21, 2009.

Fiction Paperback (Trade): The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows.
Fiction Hardcover: The Angel’s Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafón.



Nonfiction Paperback: Glenn Beck's 'Common Sense', Glenn Beck.
Nonfiction Hardcover: Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin.