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- Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
Hardcover Fiction list for October 2, 2008,
for sales ending September 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
Hardcover Nonfiction list for October 2, 2008,
for sales ending September 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Trade Paperback Fiction Bestsellers
Trade Paperback Fiction list for October 2, 2008,
for sales ending September 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore - Trade Paperback Nonfiction Bestsellers
Trade Paperback Nonfiction list for October 2, 2008,
for sales ending September 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore - Mass Market Bestsellers
Mass Market list for October 2, 2008,
for sales ending September 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Children's Illustrated Bestsellers
Children's Illustrated list for October 2, 2008,
for sales ending September 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Children's Interest Bestsellers
Children's Interest list for October 2, 2008,
for sales ending September 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Available Bestseller Feeds
What is hot in the bookselling world, broken down by category.
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| New York Times - Reviews |
- Books of The Times: Terrorists and Spies, Weaving Their Webs
John le Carré’s latest novel is set in Hamburg, Germany, the city where Mohamed Atta and other members of Al Qaeda prepared for their assault - The Future of Reading: Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers
Publishers, authors and even libraries are embracing video games to promote books to young readers.
- Books of The Times: Couple Creates an Empire by Felling Trees and Anyone in Their Way
Ron Rash’s fourth novel, “Serena,” will prompt instant interest in his first, second and third.
- Ideas & Trends: Lost in Translation? A Swede’s Snub of U.S. Lit
The Nobel Prize has eluded America’s writers. Insularity is one unflattering explanation.
- Books: Cloak, Dagger and Abuses of a New Era
John le Carré’s new novel examines spying in the post-9/11 era.
- Foraging: Manhattan: Idlewild Books
The bookstore groups guidebooks and phrasebooks with literary fiction and memoirs -- books that, at first glance, might not be what the average traveler would - The Arts | Books: Writing as Vicarious Experience
Jonathan Tropper, author of “The Book of Joe,” understands if you feel disappointed upon meeting him. His quiet suburban life is nothing like that of - Questions for Edgar M. Bronfman Sr.: Keeping the Faith
The billionaire philanthropist talks about what it means to be a neo-Jew, whose holocaust matters now and what no one blames Joe Lieberman for.
- Books of The Times: Yours Sincerely: A Poet on Fish, Bulls and Love
Ted Hughes’s letters contain some splendid perceptions and useful biographical material — among a mass of interminable explication.
- Explaining That Most Remarkable Structure
David Macaulay’s “The Way We Work” is an illustrated guide to the body’s vast array of architecture, chemical reactions and moving parts.
![]() - Dying of the Light
With no faith in an afterlife, why should an agnostic fear death? On this simple question, Barnes hangs an elegant memoir and meditation, full of - Eco-nomics
Thomas L. Friedman makes the case that green politics are compatible with big business.
- The Master and the Mistress
Annette Gordon-Reed traces the experiences of this slave family, and their relationship to the Jeffersons, over three generations.
- The Lost Child
Elizabeth McCracken’s memoir of a pregnancy gone wrong.
- Divorce American Style
Alec Baldwin’s attack on the family law system is also a sad memoir of a marriage gone desperately sour.
- Star of the Orient
This novel’s protean, real-life heroine starts out as a film sensation in occupied China and ends up in Japanese Parliament.
- The Counterinsurgent
According to Linda Robinson’s book on the latest chapter in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus wanted to fight smarter and send more troops.
![]() - Classic Italian
Marcella Hazan describes how a small-town girl became a cooking guru.
- Mood Swings
This novel’s protagonist, a tough-minded but depressive psychopharmacologist, watches a lot of drugs come and go.
- Man in the Middle
Avi Shlaim and Nigel Ashton examine the long, remarkable reign of King Hussein of Jordan.
- Lost in the Rest Home
From John Barth, loosely linked stories about the loosely linked lives of elderly residents in a gated community.
- Essay: The Ambition of the Short Story
There are virtues associated with smallness. It is the realm of elegance and grace. It’s also the realm of perfection.
- Crime: Nottingham Knight
Reviews of crime novels: “Cold in Hand,” by John Harvey; “The Killing Circle,” by Andrew Pyper; and “The Pyramid,” by Henning Mankell. Also: new editions - Archive: Book Review Podcast
This week: Alex Kuczynski on Alec Baldwin’s memoir of divorce; Charles McGrath on a Nobel Prize controversy; James Traub on Gen. David Petraeus; and Dwight - The Funny Pages: Ii: Sunday Serial: The Girl in the Green Raincoat: Chapter 4: All the Man’s Wives
Last chapter: While trawling the Internet, Tess discovered a photograph of the missing woman Carole Epstein, nee Massinger, taken a few years back, while toasting
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