Number One Bestsellers: What's Topping Lists Around America Right Now

What's number one on a bestseller list near you? What's tops on The New York Times may be bottom in San Francisco. Amazon and Indiebound (the bestseller list of independent booksellers around the country) are a whole different story as well. Which list do you subscribe to and why? Do bestseller lists dominate the way you choose books or are you getting recommendations from friends and family? Let us know in the comments section below.

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"Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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[Angel in the Shadows]

05:50 PM on 06/02/2011

Angel in the Shadows Book 1 by Lisa Grace is the next blockbuster after Twilight. Making AOL's Top Ten Most Challenged Book List for 2010 and being named as the Christian alternative to Twilight was huge. After a strong hardcover debut it came out as an e-book this week. Book 2 is promised shortly and is sure to get people hooked as the vampire craze dies off. Ratings are high and the heroine Megan has her Angels to battle the devil. A big hit for teens this summer.

[Polly Hearn]

11:51 AM on 05/27/2011

I decide which books I'm going to buy by reading reviews on the Barnes

[canadapaul]

08:12 PM on 05/24/2011

Too many Chick books. Give us a list for grown-up educated men, why don't you.

[Konnie]

07:11 PM on 05/24/2011

donlt know - don't care.
have been waiting with baited breath to run to barnes and noble today to
get my copy of David McCulloughs new book - THE GREATER JOURNEY.

i have heard this american treasure speak so many times that it's his voice
in my head when i read his words.

if the library of congress or the smithsonian had a clue they would film him sitting
and reading out loud his favorite large portions of all of his books for posterity.

[landskroon]

03:49 PM on 05/23/2011

I thought the art of reading was "Left" but ok, certain publishers seem to have found some printable "rightwing" futher

[babybecks]

03:08 PM on 05/23/2011

Dear HP readers-

We borrowed a bunch of other people's lists, and made a story using them. Your thoughts?

[jojothedoggirl]

04:25 PM on 05/23/2011

Lists of books are always good . How ya' gonna know what's good if you don't see them . Pass them on . Always looking for a good book . To all you readers out there William Gay . Anything by William Gay .

[John Dav Redux]

01:37 AM on 05/24/2011

Oh, please. How are you going to know what's good without "seeing" them? You've read EVER classic piece of fiction and all the important nonfiction that's ever been published? Get real. All of these books are a waste of time anyway.

[pa30]

02:51 PM on 05/23/2011

Best two recently for me: All the devils Are Here and Roots of Obama's Rage.Shock Doctrine and No Logo are good ,too.

[John Dav Redux]

01:37 AM on 05/24/2011

You're reading "Roots of Obama's Rage" and "Shock Doctrine" simultaneously? How's the cognitive dissonance working out for you?

[logicanada]

01:36 PM on 05/23/2011

I didn't see Dead Reckoning on there . . .

[judiNJ]

01:30 PM on 05/23/2011

I am on a "Nordic Noir" tear..... I have been reading nothing but mysteries by Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Danish authors. From Jo Nesbo to Ake Edwardson and and any in between, I am totally hooked. I thought I was pretty original till I read in the Sunday New York Times Book Review, it is the newest craze. Darn... and here I thought I was so "continental".....

[Vincent Van Der Hyde]

12:24 PM on 05/23/2011

The usual run,
mostly shallow garbage books.

[FalseConsciousness]

02:09 PM on 05/23/2011

x2

[jojothedoggirl]

04:26 PM on 05/23/2011

There are no shallow books . Don't be a book snob. Sometimes you need a little junk food for the mind.

[eds123]

05:15 PM on 05/23/2011

I call those fun little books brain candy.

[Vincent Van Der Hyde]

05:59 PM on 05/23/2011

Sorry,
life is too short to bother reading junk books.

[Joe Harmon]

11:39 AM on 05/23/2011

Seeing that Chelsea Handler has the #1 Nonfiction spot makes me wish the apocalypse had begun on Saturday. Garmy Strong!!!!

[fds]

11:12 AM on 05/23/2011

Lazy list with a bunch of repeats. Did a slack intern put this "story" together?

[DontselltheUS]

11:39 AM on 05/23/2011

Repeats...are from different sources.

[Glowcy]

12:17 PM on 05/23/2011

From the quite brief article:
"What's number one on a bestseller list near you? What's tops on The New York Times may be bottom in San Francisco. Amazon and Indiebound (the bestseller list of independent booksellers around the country) are a whole different story as well."

Reading AND comprehensive are fundamental.

[ValdaDeDieu]

12:51 PM on 05/23/2011

Then shouldn't the word be COMPREHENSION?

[Lindstr7]

04:11 PM on 05/23/2011

Thanks for the Indie link.

[CAhye]

10:43 AM on 05/23/2011

clean this thread up hp