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Bestsellers Fri Feb 20 2009
Chicagoland Bestseller List for Week Ending Sunday, Feb. 15
Stores reporting this week: Anderson's Bookshop; Read Between the Lynes; The Book Cellar; Lake Forest Books; The Bookstall at Chestnut Court; the Seminary Co-op Bookstores; Unabridged Books; and Women and Children First.
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Women by T.C. Boyle
2. Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
3. The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon
4. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5. The Associate by John Grisham
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Inaugural Address 2009 by Barack Obama
2. The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson
3. Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik
4. Things I've Been Silent About: Memories by Azar Nafisi
5. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Paperback Fiction
1. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
2. The Shack by William P. Young
3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
4. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
Paperback Nonfiction
1. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
2. Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
3. Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
4. Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander
5. The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
Children's
1. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
2. Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems
3. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
4. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
5. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Data gathered by Carl Lennertz at HarperCollins.
