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Bestsellers Thu Mar 12 2009

Chicagoland Bestseller List for Week Ending Sunday, March 8

Stores reporting this week: Anderson's Bookshop; Read Between the Lynes; The Book Cellar; Lake Forest Books; The Bookstall at Chestnut Court; The Book Table; the Seminary Co-op Bookstores; Unabridged Books; and Women and Children First.

Hardcover Fiction
1. The Women by T.C. Boyle
2. Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
3. Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
4. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer

Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey
2. A Jury of Her Peers by Elaine Showalter
3. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
4. Inaugural Address 2009 by Barack Obama
5. Dewey by Vicki Myron

Paperback Fiction
1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
3. Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
5. The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball

Paperback Nonfiction
1. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
2. The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
3. Animal, Vegatable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
4. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
5. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Children's
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
5. The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket

[Data gathered by Carl Lennertz of HarperCollins.]

 
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