Southern Indie Bestseller List
For the week ending Sunday, May 10, 2009
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Help -- a “Shoestring” touring author!
Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155345
2. Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris, Ace, $25.95, 9780441017157
3. First Family
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446539753
4. The 8th Confession
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316018760
5. The Associate
John Grisham, Doubleday, $27.95, 9780385517836
6. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $23.95, 9780375424496
7. Miss Julia Delivers the Goods -- a “Shoestring” touring author!
Ann B. Ross, Viking, $24.95, 9780670020652
8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Dial, $22, 9780385340991
9. A Reliable Wife
Robert Goolrick, Algonquin, $23.95, 9781565125964
10. Pygmy
Chuck Palahniuk, Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385526340
11. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $23, 9780385342308
12. B Is for Beer
Tom Robbins, Ecco, $17.95, 9780061687273
13. Just Take My Heart
Mary Higgins Clark, S&S, $25.95, 9781416570868
14. Home Safe
Elizabeth Berg, Random House, $25, 9781400065110
15. Brimstone
Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $25.95, 9780399155710
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Liberty and Tyranny
Mark R. Levin, Threshold Editions, $25, 9781416562856
2. Resilience
Elizabeth Edwards, Broadway, $22.95, 9780767931366
3. Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316017923
4. Losing Mum and Pup
Christopher Buckley, Twelve, $24.99, 9780446540940
5. Always Looking Up
Michael J. Fox, Hyperion, $25.99, 9781401303389
6. Some Day You'll Thank Me for This
Gayden Metcalfe, Charlotte Hays, Hyperion, $21.99, 9781401302962
7. Not Becoming My Mother
Ruth Reichl, Penguin Press, $19.95, 9781594202162
8. The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401323257
9. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
Steve Harvey, Amistad, $23.99, 9780061728976
10. Outcasts United
Warren St. John, Spiegel & Grau, $24.95, 9780385522038
11. Dewey
Vicki Myron, Grand Central, $19.99, 9780446407410
12. Paul Newman
Shawn Levy, Harmony, $29.99, 9780307353757
13. A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
Bill O'Reilly, Broadway, $26, 9780767928823
14. Promises I Made My Mother
Sam Haskell, David Rensin, Ballantine, $24, 9780345506559
15. A Lion Called Christian
Anthony Bourke, John Rendall, Broadway, $21.95, 9780767932301
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Dial, $14, 9780385341004
2. The Shack
William P. Young, Windblown, $14.99, 9780964729230
3. Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $14, 9780812971835
4. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions, $15, 9781933372600
5. Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri, Vintage, $15, 9780307278258
6. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Quirk, $12.95, 9781594743344
7. People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $15, 9780143115007
8. Sarah's Key
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95, 9780312370848
9. Vision in White
Nora Roberts, Berkley, $16, 9780425227510
10. City of Thieves
David Benioff, Plume, $15, 9780452295292
11. The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga, Free Press, $14, 9781416562603
12. Loving Frank
Nancy Horan, Ballantine, $14, 9780345495006
13. American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House, $15, 9780812975406
14. Mudbound-- a 2009 SIBA Book Award Nominee!
Hillary Jordan, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781565126770
15. The Lost Hours-- a “Shoestring” touring author!
Karen White, NAL, $15, 9780451226495
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252
2. In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $15, 9780143114963
3. American Lion
Jon Meacham, Random House, $18, 9780812973464
4. Same Kind of Different as Me
Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Thomas Nelson, $14.99, 9780849919107
5. Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15, 9780143038412
6. Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide
David Zinczenko, Rodale, $19.95, 9781605298382
7. Gift From the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Pantheon, $9.95, 9780679732419
8. The Love Dare
Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick, B&H, $14.99, 9780805448856
9. Blink
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $15.99, 9780316010665
10. The Middle Place
Kelly Corrigan, Voice, $14.95, 9781401340933
11. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9780743247542
12. The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria, Norton, $15.95, 9780393334807
13. This I Believe
Jay Allison (Ed.), Holt, $14, 9780805086584
14. The Billionaire's Vinegar
Benjamin Wallace, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307338785
15. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 9780060852566
MASS MARKET
1. Angels & Demons
Dan Brown, Pocket, $9.99, 9781416578741
2. Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand, Signet, $8.99, 9780451191144
3. Down River-- a “Shoestring” touring author!
John Hart, Minotaur, $7.99, 9780312945664
4. The Whole Truth
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $9.99, 9780446539685
5. Phantom Prey
John Sandford, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425227985
6. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Berkley, $9.99, 9780399501487
7. The King of Lies-- a “Shoestring” touring author!
John Hart, St. Martin's, $6.99, 9780312363758
8. Sail
James Patterson, Howard Roughan, Grand Central, $9.99, 9780446536103
9. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99, 9780316769488
10. Careless in Red
Elizabeth George, Harper, $7.99, 9780061160905
CHILDREN'S TITLES
1. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $17.99, 9781423101475
2. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $19.99, 9780316160209
3. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316024969
4. Twilight
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316038386
5. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $17.99, 9780679805274
6. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $22.99, 9780316067928
7. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810970687
9. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Miramax, $7.99, 9780786838653
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810993136
11. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $11.99, 9780375842207
12. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $17.95, 9780060254926
13. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.), Little Brown, $8.99, 9780316013697
14. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Puffin, $8.99, 9780142414125
15. Swing!
Rufus Butler Seder, Workman, $12.95, 9780761151272
Meet Your Favorite Writers At Your Favorite Bookstores!
The following authors are appearing at independent bookstores around the South this week!
See the full calendar at Authors 'Round the South
Michael Lux, author of The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in Americ at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC (05/13/2009)
David Hume, author of Travels to Italy: From Rome to Verona at Pomegranate Books in Wilmington, NC (05/13/2009)
Anne LeClaire, author of Listening Below the Noise at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC (05/13/2009)
John Hart, author of Last Child at Litchfield Books in Pawleys Island, SC (05/13/2009)
Michael Malone, author of Four Corners of The Sky at Books & Books Inc in Coral Gables, FL (05/13/2009)
Joanna Catherine Scott, author of Child Of The South at Fireside Books and Gifts in Forest City, NC (05/14/2009)
JIM DODSON, author of A SON OF THE GAME: A Story of Golf, going Home, an at Country Bookshop Inc in Southern Pines, NC (05/14/2009)
Patti DiRienzo, author of Florida: A Journey Through Its Colorful Past at Inkwood Books in Tampa, FL (05/14/2009)
Pearl McHaney, author of Eudora Welty as Photographer at A Cappella Books in Atlanta, GA (05/14/2009)
Gigi Amateau, author of A Certain Strain of Peculiar at Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, VA (05/14/2009)
Jeanie Thompson, author of The Seasons Bear Us at Capitol Book & News Co in Montgomery, AL (05/14/2009)
Mindy Friddle, author of Secret Keepers at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC (05/14/2009)
Stephen Wren, author of Jeremiah Bloom at Fireside Books and Gifts in Forest City, NC (05/15/2009)
Kevin Wislon, author of Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC (05/15/2009)
Bob Fulton, author of Bob Fulton My Career My Life at Burry Bookstore in Hartsville, SC (05/15/2009)
Karen Spears Zacharias, author of Where�s Your Jesus Now? at A Cappella Books in Atlanta, GA (05/15/2009)
Greg Garrett, author of Shame at Page & Palette in Fairhope, AL (05/15/2009)
Mindy Friddle, author of Secret Keepers at McIntyre's Fine Books in Pittsboro, NC (05/15/2009)
Karen Spears Zacharias, author of After the Flag Has Been Folded: A Daughter Remembe at Horton's Books & Gifts in Carrollton, GA (05/15/2009)
Karen Spears Zacharias, author of After the Flag Has Been Folded: A Daughter Remembe at Horton's Books & Gifts in Carrollton, GA (05/15/2009)
John Hart, author of The Last Child at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC (05/15/2009)
Michael Malone, author of The Four Corners of the Sky at Litchfield Books in Pawleys Island, SC (05/15/2009)
Charles Gershon, author of Slow Funeral at Accent on Books Inc in Asheville, NC (05/15/2009)
David Gessner, author of Soaring with Fidel at Pomegranate Books in Wilmington, NC (05/15/2009)
Sarah Susanka, author of Not So Big Remodeling: Tailoring Your Home for the at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC (05/15/2009)
Hester Bass, author of So Many Houses at The BookStore in Huntsville, AL (05/16/2009)
Michael Malone, author of Four Corners of The Sky at G.J. Ford Bookshop in St. Simons Island, GA (05/16/2009)
Orissa Arend, author of Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stan at Garden District Book Shop Inc. in New Orleans, LA (05/16/2009)
Michael Malone, author of Four Corners of The Sky at Book Mark in Atlantic Beach, FL (05/16/2009)
Rick Riordan, author of Last Olympian at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC (05/16/2009)
Elizabeth Edwards, author of Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts o at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC (05/16/2009)
John Hart, author of Last Child at McIntyre's Fine Books in Pittsboro, NC (05/16/2009)
John Hart, author of The Last Child at McIntyre's Fine Books in Pittsboro, NC (05/16/2009)
Cathy Holton, author of BEACH TRIP at Wild Hare Books in Signal Mt., TN (05/16/2009)
Joanna Catherine Scott, author of Child of the South at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC (05/16/2009)
Anne Barnhill, author of What You Long For at McIntyre's Fine Books in Pittsboro, NC (05/17/2009)
James Dodson, author of A Son of the Game: A Story of Golf, Going H at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC (05/18/2009)
Clay Carmichael, author of Wild Things at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC (05/19/2009)
Aleksandar Hemon, author of Love and Obstacles at A Cappella Books in Atlanta, GA (05/19/2009)
Stephanie Pearl McPhee, author of Free Range Knitter at Page & Palette in Fairhope, AL (05/19/2009)
Jo Maeder, author of When I Married My Mother at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC (05/20/2009)
Michael Malone, author of Four Corners of The Sky at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC (05/20/2009)
Hester Rumberg, author of Ten Degrees of Reckoning at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC (05/20/2009)
Mark Kurlansky, author of The Food of A Younger Land at A Cappella Books in Atlanta, GA (05/20/2009) ________________________________________________________________________________
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