Bestsellers: Publishers Weekly

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "The Overton Window" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

2. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson (Knoph)

3. "The Lion" by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central Publishing)

4. "The Passage" by Justin Cronin (Ballantine)

5. "Whiplash" by Catherine Coulter (Putnam Adult)

6. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam Adult/Amy Einhorn)

7. "Frankenstein: Lost Souls: A Novel" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

8. "The Spy" Clive Cussler and Justin Scott (Putnam Adult)

9. "61 Hours: A Reacher Novel" by Lee Child (Delacorte Press)

10."Dead in the Family" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

11."Lowcountry Summer: A Plantation Novel" by Dorothea Benton Frank (William Morrow)

12."Spies of the Balkans: A Novel" by Alan Furst (Random House)

13."Innocent" by Scott Turow (Grand Central Publishing)

14."Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Objective" by Eric Van Lustbader (Grand Central Publishing)

15."Imperial Bedrooms" by Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. "Sh t My Dad Says" by Justin Halpern (It Books)

2. "Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook" by Anthony Bourdain (Ecco)

3. "Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose" by Tony Hsieh (Business Plus)

4. "Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything" by Geneen Roth (Scribner)

5. "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton & Company)

6. "Spoken from the Heart" by Laura Bush (Scribner)

7. "WAR" by Sebastian Junger (Twelve)

8. "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang" by Chelsea Handler (Grand Central Publishing)

9. "Uncharted terriTORI" by Tori Spelling (Gallery Books)

10."The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn" by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking)

11."Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball" by Bill Madden (Harper)

12."The Pacific" by Hugh Ambrose (NAL)

13."The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch (Hyperion)

14."Heroes for My Son" by Brad Meltzer (HarperStudio)

15."Mike and Mike's Rules for sports and Life" by Mike Greenburg, Mike Golic, and Andrew Chaikivsky (ESPN)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

2. "The Girl Who Played with Fire" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

3. "Black Hills" by Nora Roberts (Jove)

4. "Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Deception" by Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader (Vision)

5. "Medusa" by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos (Berkley)

6. "The Doomsday Key: A Novel" by James Rollins (Harper

7. "The Last Song" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

8. "Married by Morning" by Lisa Kleypas (St. Martin's Paperbacks)

9. "Orchard Valley Grooms: Valerie/Stephanie" by Debbie Macomber (MIRA)

10."Matters of the Heart" by Danielle Steel (Dell)

11."A Plague of Secrets" by John Lescroart (Signet)

12."Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

13."Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

14."The Apostle: A Thriller" by Brad Thor (Pocket)

15."McKettricks of Texas: Garrett" by Linda Lael Miller (HQN)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

2. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)

3. "The Girl Who Played with Fire" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

4. "Little Bee: A Novel" by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster)

5. "Best Friends Forever: A Novel" by Jennifer Weiner (Washington Square Press)

6. "Swimsuit" by James Patterson (Grand Central Publishing)

7. "South of Broad: A Novel" by Pat Conroy (Dial)

8. "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)

9. "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)

10."Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)

11."A Reliable Wife" by Robert Goolrick (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

12."Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin's Griffin)

13."The Magicians: A Novel" by Lev Grossman (Plume)

14."My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands" by Chelsea Handler (Vintage)

15."The Castaways: A Novel" by Elin Hilderbrand (L.B./Back Bay)

Comments

[hacharacter]

12:53 PM on 07/02/2010

Sh*t my Father Says is a very funny read - All of us can relate as parents and as children! Hillarious!

[sorrytobeakansan]

08:24 AM on 06/28/2010

it takes very few books to become first on this list. Whoever wrote Gelln Becks book is enjoying pre pub sales inspired by his drooling masses.

[MuchMadness]

01:11 AM on 06/28/2010

How well is "Circumference of Darkness" selling?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/glenn-becks-new-novel-abo_b_613861.html

[Outsideadog]

10:25 PM on 06/27/2010

"In respect of our reading...remember that he who writes for fools will always find a large public, and let us turn the always comparatively short time we have for reading exclusively to the works of the great minds of all times and peoples, which tower above the rest of humanity, and which the voice of fame indicates as such. These only really educate and instruct. We can never read the bad too little and the good too often; bad books are intellectual poison, they destroy the mind. Because people, instead of reading the best of all times, only read the newest, writers remain in the narrow circle of circulating ideas, and the age sinks ever deeper into the slough of its own filth."
Schopenhauer, 'On Reading and Books'.

[naschkatze]

07:57 PM on 06/27/2010

The Daily Beast mentions a new Scandinavian, Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg. Anyone read it yet?

[me again]

09:11 AM on 06/27/2010

There needs to be honesty in publication, Beck attached his name to a book written by someone else.

[BlackJAC]

02:16 PM on 06/27/2010

Unfortunately ghostwriting is a perfectly legal operation.

[jozzie]

06:22 PM on 06/27/2010

Unfortunately.

Stealing is illegal, but appropriating someone else's work and calling it your own is OK. As long as you pay them.

[JerryAguy]

08:05 PM on 06/27/2010

Yeah like if you look inside the book it says that, what about Ayers help with Barracks book? He doesn't credit anyone.

[freedom4me2]

01:53 AM on 06/26/2010

How many #1's is that in a row for Beck now?

[me again]

09:12 AM on 06/27/2010

His name only, he doesn't write any of them.

[BlackJAC]

02:16 PM on 06/27/2010

Considering that you only need to move about 3000 copies to make it to #1?

[alex briggs]

11:06 AM on 06/25/2010

Freaking Glenn Beck.

[BlackJAC]

11:19 AM on 06/25/2010

Trust me: nobody's actually reading the thing. The critics actually have legitimate reason to ding it due to its complete lack of action and glaring plot holes.

[pasko]

01:24 AM on 06/27/2010

Oh, you read it?