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Southern Indie Bestseller List 06/13/2010 PDF Print E-mail
Southern Independent Bestsellers
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Sunday, 13 June 2010 00:00

Southern Indie Bestseller List

For the week ending Sunday, June 13, 2010
Columbia, SC - June 17, 2010 -

The Southern Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound.org and SIBA, for the week ended Sunday, June 13, 2010. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound.org.

STARS - A STARS Author | Okra Pick! - A SIBA Okra Pick
Printable versions: Hardcover | Paperback | Children

SPECIAL TO THE SOUTHERN LIST!

(books that appear on the southern list, but not the national list)

  • The Outer Banks House by Diann DuCharme (fiction)
  • Heart of the Matter by Emily Griffin (fiction)
  • Okra Pick!Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson (fiction)
  • The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose (nonfiction)
  • Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler (nonfiction)
  • Change Your Brain, Change Your Body by Chelsea Handler (nonfiction)
  • STARSOn Folly Beach by Karen White (paperback fiction)
  • The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (paperback fiction)
  • The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (paperback fiction)
  • Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall (paperback nonfiction)
  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (paperback nonfiction)
  • Awkward Family Photos by Mike Bender (paperback nonfiction)
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (paperback nonfiction)
  • Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino (paperback nonfiction)
  • In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White (paperback nonfiction)
  • Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (mass market)
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding (mass market)
  • Shark vs. Train by Chris Barton (children's illustrated)
  • Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin (children's illustrated)
  • Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (children's interest)
  • Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (children's interest)

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269997
2. The Help - a 2010 SIBA Book Award finalist!
Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155345
3. The Passage
Justin Cronin, Ballantine, $27, 9780345504968
4. Innocent
Scott Turow, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446562423
5. The Lion
Nelson DeMille, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446580830
6. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender, Doubleday, $25.95, 9780385501125
7. Matterhorn
Karl Marlantes, Atlantic Monthly, $24.95, 9780802119285
8. 61 Hours
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385340588
9. Dead in the Family
Charlaine Harris, Ace, $25.95, 9780441018642
10. Heart of the Matter
Emily Giffin, St. Martin's, $26.99, 9780312554163
11. The Outer Banks House
Diann DuCharme, Crown, $25, 9780307462237
Okra Pick!12. Backseat Saints - a Summer Okra Pick!
Joshilyn Jackson, Grand Central, $24.99, 9780446582346
13. Island Beneath the Sea
Isabel Allende, Harper, $26.99, 9780061988240
14. The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman, Dial, $25, 9780385343664
15. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson, Random House, $25, 9781400068937

 

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Spoken From the Heart
Laura Bush, Scribner, $30, 9781439155202
2. Medium Raw
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $26.99, 9780061718946
3. Sh*t My Dad Says
Justin Halpern, It Books, $15.99, 9780061992704
4. The Big Short
Michael Lewis, Norton, $27.95, 9780393072235
5. War
Sebastian Junger, Twelve, $26.99, 9780446556248
6. The Last Stand
Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, $30, 9780670021727
7. Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316017923
8. Operation Mincemeat
Ben Macintyre, Harmony, $25.99, 9780307453273
9. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Crown, $26, 9781400052172
10. Women Food and God
Geneen Roth, Scribner, $24, 9781416543077
11. Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, $26.99, 9780446540339
12. Seaworthy
Linda Greenlaw, Viking, $25.95, 9780670021925
13. The Pacific
Hugh Ambrose, NAL, $26.95, 9780451230232
14. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
Chelsea Handler, Grand Central, $25.99, 9780446552448
15. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body
Daniel G. Amen M.D., Harmony, $25.99, 9780307463579

 



TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307454546
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454553
3. Little Bee
Chris Cleave, S&S, $14, 9781416589648
4. South of Broad - a 2010 SIBA Book Award finalist!
Pat Conroy, Dial, $16, 9780385344074
5. A Reliable Wife
Robert Goolrick, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781565129771
6. That Old Cape Magic
Richard Russo, Vintage, $15, 9781400030910
7. Tinkers
Paul Harding, Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95, 9781934137123
8. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
9. Sarah's Key
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95, 9780312370848
10. The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967
11. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions, $15, 9781933372600
Okra Pick!STARS12. On Folly Beach - a STARS author and Summer Okra Pick!
Karen White, NAL, $15, 9780451229212
13. The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters, Riverhead, $16, 9781594484469
14. The Forgotten Garden
Kate Morton, Washington Square Press, $15, 9781416550556
15. Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann, Random House, $15, 9780812973990

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15, 9780143038412
2. Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $16, 9780143038252
3. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Rhoda Janzen, Holt, $14, 9780805092257
4. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Chelsea Handler, Simon Spotlight, $16, 9781416596363
5. Awkward Family Photos
Mike Bender, Doug Chernack, Three Rivers, $15, 9780307592293
6. How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Thomas C. Foster, Harper, $13.99, 9780060009427
7. Food Rules
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $11, 9780143116387
8. Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder, Random House, $16, 9780812977615
9. Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford, Penguin, $15, 9780143117469
10. Same Kind of Different as Me
Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Thomas Nelson, $14.99, 9780849919107
11. Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307387172
12. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9780743247542
13. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts - a 2010 SIBA Book Award finalist!
Neil White, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780061351631
14. Half the Sky
Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307387097
15. Picking Cotton
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton, St. Martin's Griffin, $14.99, 9780312599539

 

MASS MARKET

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $7.99, 9780307473479
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $7.99, 9780307476159
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99, 9780446310789
4. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $6.99, 9780812550702
5. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99, 9780316769488
6. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, Ballantine, $6.99, 9780345342966
7. Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris, Ace, $7.99, 9780441018512
8. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Berkley, $9.99, 9780399501487
9. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
10. Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris, Ace, $7.99, 9780441016990

 



CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $17.99, 9780679805274
2. Ladybug Girl at the Beach
David Soman, Jacky Davis, Dial, $16.99, 9780803734166
3. The Very Fairy Princess
Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton (Illus.), Little Brown, $16.99, 9780316040501
4. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
5. Star Wars: A Scanimation Book
Rufus Butler Seder, Workman, $14.95, 9780761158462
6. Pinkalicious and the Pink Drink
Victoria Kann, HarperFestival, $3.99, 9780061927324
7. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $17.95, 9780060254926
8. Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
Eric Litwin, James Dean (Illus.), Harper, $16.99, 9780061906220
9. Shark vs. Train
Chris Barton, Tom Lichtenheld (Illus.), Little Brown, $16.99, 9780316007627
10. Perfect Piggies!
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $6.95, 9780761159933

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

1. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $13.99, 9780316125581
2. Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
John Grisham, Dutton, $16.99, 9780525423843
3. The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.95, 9780810996168
4. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $11.99, 9780375842207
5. Savvy
Ingrid Law, Puffin, $7.99, 9780142414330
6. Scat - a 2010 SIBA Book Award finalist!
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $8.99, 9780375834875
7. City Dog, Country Frog
Mo Willems, Jon J Muth (Illus.), Hyperion, $17.99, 9781423103004
8. The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Little Brown, $17.99, 9780316044776
9. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume, Puffin, $5.99, 9780142408810
10. Big Nate: In a Class by Himself
Lincoln Peirce, Harper, $12.99, 9780061944345

CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

1. The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $17.99, 9781423113386
2. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423134947
3. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $17.99, 9781423101475
4. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $17.99, 9780439023481
5. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2)
Rick Riordan, Miramax, $7.99, 9781423103349
6. The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423101482
7. Storm Warning (The 39 Clues, #9)
Linda Sue Park, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545060493
8. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423101499
9. The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart, Little Brown, $6.99, 9780316003957
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $13.95, 9780810983915

 


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:

Howard Bryant, author of The Last Hero at Page & Palette in Fairhope, AL  (06/17/2010)

Jeffrey Stepakoff, author of FIREWORKS OVER TOCCOA at Book Exchange in Marietta, GA  (06/17/2010)

Sebastian Junger, author of War at Books & Books Inc in Coral Gables, FL  (June 17 2010)

Eve Bunting, author of A Perfect Father's Day at Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC  (06/17/2010)

Eric Litwin, author of I Love My White Shoes at Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC  (06/17/2010)

Malinda Maynor Lawery, author of LUMBEE INDIANS IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH: Race, Identi at Country Bookshop Inc in Southern Pines, NC  (June 17 2010)

Laurent Dubois, author of Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of Fra at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC  (June 17 2010)

Mary Alice Monroe, author of Last Light Over Carolina at Book Exchange in Marietta, GA  (June 17, 2010)

Thomas Daly, author of Rage Company at Inkwood Books in Tampa, FL  (June 17 2010)

Mary Cunningham, author of Cynthia's Attic: Magician's Castle at Horton's Books & Gifts in Carrollton, GA  (6/17/2010)

Alex Taylor, author of NAME OF THE NEAREST RIVER at Square Books in Oxford, MS  (June 17 2010)

T. Collin Dodd, author of What I Would Tell Her: 28 Devoted Dads on Bringing at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC  (June 17 2010)

Alex Taylor, author of NAME OF THE NEAREST RIVER at Square Books in Oxford, MS  (June 17 2010)

Dave Tompkins, author of How to Wreck a Nice Beach at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (06/17/2010)

Christopher Hitchens, author of Hitch 22 at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC  (06/17/2010)

Oscar Hijuelos, author of Beautiful Maria of My Soul at Books & Books Inc in Coral Gables, FL  (June 18 2010)

Sam McLeod, author of Big Appetite: My Southern-Fried Search for the Mea at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC  (June 18 2010)

Norma Price, author of Crossing with the Virgin at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (06/18/2010)

Jo Leimenstoll, author of Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC  (June 18 2010)

Anne Barnhill, author of What You Long For at Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC  (06/19/2010)

Patricia Marshall, author of Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color at McIntyre's Fine Books in Pittsboro, NC  (06/19/2010)

Dave Tompkins, author of How to Wreck a Nice Beach at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC  (06/19/2010)

Charles Park, author of Closed on Tuesdays at Dee Gee's Gifts & Books in Morehead City, NC  (June 19 2010)

Guido Levetto, author of A Return To Yesterday at Muse Book Shop in Deland, FL  (06/19/2010)

M. O. Walsh, author of THE PROSPECT OF MAGIC at Square Books in Oxford, MS  (June 19 2010)

Steve Butler, author of We Do Remember You at Park Road Books in Charlotte, NC  (June 19 2010)

Anne Clinard Barnhill, author of At Home in the Land of Oz: Autism, My Sister, and at Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC  (June 19 2010)

Edith Edwards, author of Tales Through Time: Women of the South at Two Sisters Bookery in Wilmington, NC  (June 19 2010)

Sidney Phillips, author of You'll Be Sor-ree at Page & Palette in Fairhope, AL  (06/19/2010)

Elizabeth Eslami, author of Bone Worship at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (06/19/2010)

Doug James, author of Billy Benson at Page & Palette in Fairhope, AL  (06/19/2010)

Thomas Rain Crow, author of The Sacred Land at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC  (June 19 2010)

Tom C. Greer, author of The Adventures of Honey at Silver Ink Books in De Queen, AR  (June 19 2010)

Paul Wieland, author of Crossing the Threshold at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (06/20/2010)

Trey Moore, author of Some Will Play the Cello at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (06/20/2010)

Patrick Gene Frank, author of On the Blue Ridge Line at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (06/21/2010)

Sam McLeod, author of Big Appetite: My Southern Fried Search for the Mea at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC  (06/21/2010)

Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (06/22/2010)

Adam Ross, author of Mr. Peanut at That Bookstore in Blytheville in Blytheville, AR  (06/22/2010)

Nicole Seitz, author of Saving Cicadas at Book Exchange in Marietta, GA  (06/22/2010)

Barbara Pleasant, author of Starter Vegetable Gardens at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC  (06/22/2010)

Maryann McFadden, author of So Happy Together at Book Exchange in Marietta, GA  (06/22/2010)

Elise Blackwell, author of An Unfinished Score at Octavia Books in New Orleans, LA  (June 22 2010)

Denise Hildreth, author of Hurricanes in Paradise at Book Exchange in Marietta, GA  (06/22/2010)

Eugene Morris, author of "The Greatest Living Spearhunter in the World" at Page & Palette in Fairhope, AL  (06/22/2010)

George Singleton, author of Pep Talks, Warnings, and Screeds: Indispensable Wi at Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC  (June 23 2010)

Randy Johnson, author of Hiking the Blue Ridge Parkway at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC  (06/23/2010)

Sam McLeod, author of Big Appetite: My Southern Fried Search for the Mea at Page & Palette in Fairhope, AL  (06/23/2010)

Elise Blackwell, author of An Unfinished Score at Page & Palette in Fairhope, AL  (06/24/2010)

Oscar Hijuelos, author of Beautiful Maria of My Soul at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC  (06/24/2010)

Brett Webb-Mitchell, author of Beyond Accessibility: Toward Full Inclusion of Peo at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC  (June 24 2010)

Maurice Stanley, author of Sorrows End at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC  (June 24 2010)

Dr, Laurel Clark, author of The Law of Attraction at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (06/24/2010)

Karin Slaughter, author of Broken at Page & Palette in Fairhope, AL  (06/24/2010)

Queen Rania Al Abdullah, author of The Sandwich Swap at Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC  (06/24/2010)

John Wood, author of North Carolina Trivia: Weird, Wacky, and Wild at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC  (06/25/2010)

Stephan Martin, author of Cosmic Conversations at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (06/25/2010)

Travis Morris, author of Untold Stories of Old Currituck Duck Clubs at Page After Page in Elizabeth City, NC  (June 26 2010)

Suzset Parker, author of Shhh…No More Secrets at Park Road Books in Charlotte, NC  (June 26 2010)

Minrose Gwin, author of The Queen of Palmyra at Page & Palette in Fairhope, AL  (06/26/2010)

David Madden, author of Adbucted by Circumstance at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (06/26/2010)

Wendy Ellsworth, author of Beading - The Creative Spirit at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (06/26/2010)

Tim Downs, author of Wonders Never Cease at McIntyre's Fine Books in Pittsboro, NC  (06/26/2010)

Michael Malone, author of The Four Corners of the Sky at Two Sisters Bookery in Wilmington, NC  (June 26 2010)

Marybeth Whalen, author of The Mailbox at Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC  (06/26/2010)

Louis Rubin, author of Uptown/Downtown in Old Charleston at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC  (06/27/2010)

Bruce Lader, author of Landscapes of Longing at McIntyre's Fine Books in Pittsboro, NC  (06/27/2010)

David Herlihy, author of The Lost Cyclist at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC  (06/28/2010)

Lauren Rosenfeld James McMahon, author of Your To Be List at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (06/28/2010)

Dorothea Benton Frank, author of Lowcountry Summer at Country Bookshop Inc in Southern Pines, NC  (June 28 2010)

Dorothea Benton Frank, author of Low Country Summer at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC  (06/29/2010)

David Herlihy, author of The Lost Cyclist at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC  (June 29 2010)

M.O. "Neal" Walsh, author of The Prospect of Magic at Page & Palette in Fairhope, AL  (06/30/2010)

Vanessa Woods, author of Bonobo Handshake at Country Bookshop Inc in Southern Pines, NC  (June 30 2010)

Aaron Lubeck, author of Green Restorations: Sustainable Building adn Histo at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC  (06/30/2010) ________________________



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