Sunday, April 28, 2013

'Whiskey Beach' takes top spot in this week's fiction best-sellers list

Today is Sunday, so that means that it’s time for my weekly breakdown of this week’s Publishers Weekly Best-Sellers Lists. According to those lists, there are two new books at the top of the four major best-sellers lists this week.

"Whiskey Beach" by Nora Roberts replaced "Daddy's Gone a Hunting" by Mary Higgins Clark as the No. 1 book on the hardcover fiction best-sellers list.

"Proof of Heaven" by Eben Alexander replaced "The Witness" by Nora Roberts as the No. 1 book on the trade paperbacks best-sellers list.

"Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg remained the top book on the hardcover nonfiction best-sellers list for the sixth week in a row.

"The Best of Me" by Nicholas Sparks remained the top book on the mass market paperback best-sellers list for the third straight week.

There were four books on this week’s hardcover fiction best-sellers list that weren’t on that list lat week. They (and their places on the list) included "Whiskey Beach" by Nora Roberts (1), "Taking Eve" by Iris Johansen (3), "A Man Without Breath" by Philip Kerr (14) and "Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald" by Therese Anne Fowler (15).

There were four books on this week’s hardcover nonfiction best-sellers list that weren’t on the list last week. They included "LeaderShift" by Orrin Woodward, Oliver DeMille (2), "The Athena Doctrine" by John Gerzema, Michael D'Antonio (7), "Man 2.0 Engineering the Alpha" by John Romaniello, Adam Bornstein (9) and "Relish" by Daphne Oz (10).

There was only one book on this week’s mass market paperbacks best-sellers list that wasn’t on the list last week - "Bloodline" by James Rollins, which was No. 14 on the list.

There were two books on this week’s trade paperbacks best-sellers list that weren’t on the list last week. They included "The Black Box" by Michael Connelly (4) and "Where We Belong" by Emily Giffin (11).

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. "Whiskey Beach" by Nora Roberts
2. "Daddy's Gone a Hunting" by Mary Higgins Clark
3. "Taking Eve" by Iris Johansen
4. "Starting Now" by Debbie Macomber
5. "Don't Go" by Lisa Scottoline
6. "Six Years" by Harlan Coben
7. "Unintended Consequences" by Stuart Woods
8. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
9. "Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson
10. "The Burgess Boys: A Novel" by Elizabeth Strout
11. "The Storyteller" by Jodi Picoult
12. "Alex Cross, Run" by James Patterson
13. "A Week in Winter" by Maeve Binchy
14. "A Man Without Breath" by Philip Kerr
15. "Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald" by Therese Anne Fowler

HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. "Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg
2. "LeaderShift" by Orrin Woodward, Oliver DeMille
3. "The One Thing" by Gary Keller
4. "The Fast Metabolism Diet" by Haylie Pomroy
5. "It's All Good" by Gwyneth Paltro
6. "The Duck Commander Family" by Willie Robertson
7. "The Athena Doctrine" by John Gerzema, Michael D'Antonio
8. "Life Code" by Phil McGraw
9. "Man 2.0 Engineering the Alpha" by John Romaniello, Adam Bornstein
10. "Relish" by Daphne Oz
11. "Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits" by Joyce Meyer
12. "The FastDiet" by Michael Mosley
13. "I Declare" by Joel Osteen
14. "Gulp" by Mary Roach
15. "A Higher Call" by Adam Makos

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "The Best of Me" by Nicholas Sparks
2. "The Lost Years" by Mary Higgins Clark
3. "Calico Joe" by John Grisham
4. "Now You See Her" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
5. "Delusion in Death" by J.D. Robb
6. "The Wanderer" by Robyn Carr
7. "Severe Clear" by Stuart Woods
8. "Sand Castle Bay" by Sherryl Woods
9. "Sleep No More" by Iris Johansen
10. "The Innocent" by David Baldacci
11. "Balancing Act" by Fern Michaels
12. "You Don't Want to Know" by Lisa Jackson
13. "American Sniper" by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
14. "Bloodline" by James Rollins
15. "Dry Gulch Ambush" by William W. Johnstone

TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "Proof of Heaven" by Eben Alexander
2. "The Witness" by Nora Roberts
3. "The Forgotten" by David Baldacci
4. "The Black Box" by Michael Connelly
5. "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" by Cheryl Strayed
6. "I, Michael Bennett" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
7. "Beautiful Ruins" by Jess Walter
8. "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L. James
9. "Waking Up in Heaven" by Crystal McVea
10. "Obamacare Survival Guide" by Nick J. Tate
11. "Where We Belong" by Emily Giffin
12. "Walking Disaster" by Jamie McGuire
13. "America the Beautiful" by Ben Carson M.D. and Candy Carson
14. "Calico Joe" by John Grisham
15. "The Guardian" by Beverly Lewis

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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