It’s Sunday, so that means that it’s time for my weekly review of this week’s Publishers Weekly Best-Seller List. According to the list, it’s one of those very rare weeks in which we have no new books at the top of the four major best-seller lists this week, that is, all of the books that were at the top last week, kept their No. 1 spots."The Best of Me" by Nicholas Sparks remained the No. 1 book on the hardcover fiction best-sellers list.
"Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard retained the top spot on the hardcover nonfiction best-sellers list.
"Cross Fire" by James Patterson remained the No. 1 book on the mass market paperback best-sellers list.
"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett retained the top spot on the trade paperbacks best-sellers list.
There are seven books on this week’s hardcover fiction best-sellers list that weren’t on the list last week. They (along with their place on the list) include "The Christmas Wedding" by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo (2), "Bonnie" by Iris Johansen (3), "Damned" by Chuck Palahniuk (6), "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes (8), "The Tehran Initiative" by Joel C. Rosenberg (9), "The Lady of the Rivers" by Philippa Gregory (12) and "Double Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay (14).
There are five books on this week’s hardcover nonfiction best-sellers list that weren’t on the list last week. They include "Suicide of a Superpower" by Patrick J. Buchanan (3), "Nearing Home" by Billy Graham (5), "West by West" by Jerry West and Jonathan Coleman (10), "Van Gogh: A Life" by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (11) and "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson (15).
There are four books on this week’s mass market paperbacks best-sellers list that weren’t on that list last week. They include "What the Night Knows" by Dean Koontz (3), "The Athena Project" by Brad Thor (7), "American Assassin" by Vince Flynn (13) and "World War Z" by Max Brooks (14).
There are three books on this week’s trade paperbacks best-sellers list that weren’t on the list last week. They include "Sing You Home" by Jodi Picoult (3), "Rescue America" by Chris Salamone and Gilbert Morris (9) and "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell (10).
As a reminder, I’m posting these lists each Sunday because they, as a whole, represent a great, contemporary recommended reading list. These lists are initially released each week on Thursday, and if you’re interested in reading them then, visit Publishers Weekly’s Web site at www.publishersweekly.com. Below you’ll find all four of this week’s best-seller lists.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "The Best of Me" by Nicholas Sparks
2. "The Christmas Wedding" by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo
3. "Bonnie" by Iris Johansen
4. "The Affair: A Reacher Novel" by Lee Child
5. "The Marriage Plot" by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. "Damned" by Chuck Palahniuk
7. "Shock Wave" by John Sandford
8. "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes
9. "The Tehran Initiative" by Joel C. Rosenberg
10. "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
11. "A Dance with Dragons" by George R.R. Martin
12. "The Lady of the Rivers" by Philippa Gregory
13. "The Dovekeepers" by Alice Hoffman
14. "Double Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay
15. "Lethal" by Sandra Brown
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
2. "Boomerang" by Michael Lewis
3. "Suicide of a Superpower" by Patrick J. Buchanan
4. "Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible" by Paula Deen with Melissa Clark
5. "Nearing Home" by Billy Graham
6. "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
7. "Seriously I'm Kidding" by Ellen DeGeneres
8. "Jacqueline Kennedy" foreword by Caroline Kennedy
9. "That Used to Be Us" by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
10. "West by West" by Jerry West and Jonathan Coleman
11. "Van Gogh: A Life" by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
12. "I Never Thought I'd See the Day!" by David Jeremiah
13. "Every Day a Friday" by Joel Osteen
14. "Great by Choice" by Jim Collins & Morton T. Hansen
15. "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "Cross Fire" by James Patterson
2. "Miracle Cure" by Harlan Coben
3. "What the Night Knows" by Dean Koontz
4. "Bad Blood: A Virgil Flowers Novel" by John Sandford
5. "Legacy: A Novel" by Danielle Steel
6. "Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
7. "The Athena Project" by Brad Thor
8. "Christmas at Timberwoods" by Fern Michaels
9. "The Confession" by John Grisham
10. "Western Skies" by Nora Roberts
11. "A Storm of Swords" by George R.R. Martin
12. "Full Dark, No Stars" by Stephen King
13. "American Assassin" by Vince Flynn
14. "World War Z" by Max Brooks
15. "Eve" by Iris Johansen
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
2. "Heaven is for Real" by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Colton Burpo and Lynn Vincent
3. "Sing You Home" by Jodi Picoult
4. "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay
5. "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" by Michael Lewis
6. "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese
7. "Room" by Emma Donoghue
8. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
9. "Rescue America" by Chris Salamone and Gilbert Morris
10. "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
11. "Cleopatra" by Stacy Schiff
12. "The Fifth Witness" by Michael Connelly
13. "The Sixth Man" by David Baldacci
14. "The Warmth of Other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson
15. "Freedom: A Novel" by Jonathan Franzen
In the end, let me know if you’ve had a chance to read any of these books. What did you think about them? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.
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