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- Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
Hardcover Fiction list for July 3, 2008,
for sales ending June 29, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
Hardcover Nonfiction list for July 3, 2008,
for sales ending June 29, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Trade Paperback Fiction Bestsellers
Trade Paperback Fiction list for July 3, 2008,
for sales ending June 29, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore - Trade Paperback Nonfiction Bestsellers
Trade Paperback Nonfiction list for July 3, 2008,
for sales ending June 29, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore - Mass Market Bestsellers
Mass Market list for July 3, 2008,
for sales ending June 29, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Children's Illustrated Bestsellers
Children's Illustrated list for July 3, 2008,
for sales ending June 29, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Children's Interest Bestsellers
Children's Interest list for July 3, 2008,
for sales ending June 29, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Book Sense Children's Interest Bestsellers
Children's Interest list for June 26, 2008,
for sales ending June 22, 2008.
Based on sales from independent bookstores across America.
For the Book Sense - 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: Hush, Hush, Sister Dearest, Your Fall Was an Accident
“The Sister” is powered by the same sort of confidently rendered literary suspense that propelled Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” onto best-seller lists.
- Thomas Disch, Novelist, Dies at 68
Mr. Disch twisted the inherently twisted genre of science fiction in new, disturbing directions, including writing his last book in the voice of God.
- Books of The Times: Nowhere Man in His Upper-Crusty Land
Michael Dahlie’s debut novel deals quite affectionately with its central character and his frailties.
- Ex-Prosecutor’s Book Accuses Bush of Murder
Vincent Bugliosi has written three No. 1 best sellers, but his latest entry on the best-seller list — a polemic with a provocative title — - Sicily, Through the Eyes of the Leopard
Lampedusa’s novel “The Leopard” charts the decline of his noble family, and serves as a portal to an ancient island’s harsh and startling beauty.
- The ’60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire
Hired during an expansion in higher education, baby boomers are being replaced by a new generation.
- Channeling the Voices of Africa’s Lost Children
The Rev. Uwem Akpan is a Nigerian and a Jesuit priest who has just published a debut collection of stories about the dark side of - Livin’ La Vida Local
In this multilayered first novel set in 1950s Cuba, American expatriates try to bury their dark pasts, even as the Castro brothers gather revolutionaries in - The Things He Saw
In Ethan Canin’s novel, a boy from humble roots becomes entangled with a powerful New York family — and its secrets — in the early - Second Acts
After publishing two memoirs that proved insufficiently factual, James Frey has brought forth a novel whose greatest problem is that it’s insufficiently fictional.
- An American in China
Michael Meyer, a resident of Beijing, records the demolition of the city’s ancient neighborhoods.
- The Dysfunctional Jameses
A collective biography of the James family highlights their problems with alcohol, mental instability and conflicted sexuality.
- Home Screening
In this memoir, a father helps his son through adolescence with the help of a pile of DVDs.
- What Safety Net?
Peter Gosselin reports that setbacks like a serious illness or losing a job are now more likely to mean an economic disaster.
![]() - Out of the Midday Sun
Peter Clarke shows how the end of the British empire was hastened by the same Anglo-American alliance that was so successful in vanquishing fascism.
- Ancestral Journeys
In tracing his family’s history in Lebanon and beyond, Amin Maalouf also traces the changing nature of Arab identity.
- Landscape Artist
Robert Macfarlane hikes, climbs and swims through the British Isles in search of parts unspoiled.
- Quiz: Transloosely Literated
A book's journey from one language into another can be perilous.
- Nonfiction Chronicle
New nonfiction books reviewed.
- Archive: Book Review Podcast
Julie Salamon, author of “Hospital”; Kate Sekules on Michael Meyer’s “Last Days of Old Beijing”; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Gregory Cowles - Sunday Serial | The Funny Pages: Mrs. Corbett’s Request
Last week: Eliska Sedlacek, who was Roger’s girlfriend, told George that she used to have a Russian boyfriend who asked her to store some metal
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