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Bestsellers Thu Mar 19 2009

Chicagoland Bestseller List for Week Ending Sunday, March 15

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; and Women and Children First.

Hardcover Fiction
1. Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly
2. Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
3. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
4. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5. The Piano Teacher by Janice Lee

Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey
2. House of Cards by William D. Cohan
3. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
4. The Lost City of Z by David Grann
5. Food Matters by Mark Bittman

Paperback Fiction
1. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
2. The Commoner by Jonathan Burnham Schwartz
3. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
4. The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Paperback Nonfiction
1. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
2. The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
3. The Will to Whatevs by Eugene Mirman
4. Soil Not Oil by Vendana Shiva
5. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Children's TItles
1. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Do-It-Yourself by Jeff Kinney
3. Scat by Carl Hiaasen
4. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney

[Data gathered by Carl Lennertz of HarperCollins.]

 
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