Best Seller Round-Up

"Why should writers wish to be rated -- seeded -- like tennis players? Handicapped like racehorses? What an epitaph for a novelist:
He won all the polls!"

- Saul Below, The Paris Review Interviews, I.

I. The New York Times.

Published July 26, 2009.

Fiction Paperback (Trade): The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle), Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows.
Fiction Hardcover: Best Friends Forever, Jennifer Weiner.
Nonfiction Paperback: Glenn Beck's 'Common Sense', Glenn Beck.
Nonfiction Hardcover: Unmasked, Ian Halperin.

II. Los Angeles Times.
Published July 26, 2009.

Fiction Paperback: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson.



Fiction Hardcover: The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
Nonfiction Paperback: Glenn Beck's 'Common Sense', Glenn Beck.
Nonfiction Hardcover: Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell.

III. Northern California Independent Booksellers.
For the week ending July 19, 2009.

Fiction Paperback (Trade): Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout and Annie Barrows.
Fiction Hardcover: The Help, Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn
Nonfiction Paperback: Julie & Julia, Julie Powell.
Nonfiction Hardcover: Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell.


IV. Heartland Indie Bestseller List.
Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association
For the week ending July 19, 2009.

Fiction Paperback (Trade): The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle), Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows.
Fiction Hardcover: The Help, Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn
Nonfiction Paperback: Glenn Beck's 'Common Sense', Glenn Beck.
Nonfiction Hardcover: Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell.