The Week's Hottest Reads: Publishers Weekly Bestsellers

-- HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "Against All Enemies" by Tom Clancy and Peter Telep (Putnam Adult)

2. "One Summer" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

3. "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett (Harper)

4. "Folly Beach: A Lowcountry Tale" by Dorothea Benton Frank (William Morrow)

5. "The Kingdom" by Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood (Putnam Adult)

6. "Carte Blanche" by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster)

7. "Sisterhood Everlasting: A Novel" by Ann Brashares (Random House)

8. "Hit List" by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley)

9. "10th Anniversary" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)

10. "Dead Reckoning" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

11. "The Jefferson Key" by Steve Berry (Ballantine)

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

13. "Buried Prey" by John Sandford (Putnam Adult)

14. "Summer Rental" by Mary Kay Andrews (St. Martin's Press)

15. "Dreams of Joy: A Novel" by Lisa See (Random House)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. "Go the F K to Sleep" by Adam Mansbach and Illustrations by Ricardo Cortes (Avon)

2. "The Greater Journey" by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)

3. "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)

4. "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson (Crown)

5. "The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Design for Rapid Results" by Dr. Mike Moreno (Free Press)

6. "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America" by Ann Coulter (Crown Forum)

7. "The Dukan Diet" by Pierre Dukan (Crown Archetype)

8. "SEAL Team Six" by Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin (St. Martin's)

9. "Bossypants" by Tina Fey (Reagan Arthur)

10. "Through My Eyes" by Tim Tebow and Nathan Whitaker (Harper)

11. "Guy Fieri Food: Cookin' It, Livin' It, Lovin' It" by Guy Fieri and Ann Volkwein (William Morrow)

12. "Those Guys Have All the Fun" by James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales (Little, Brown)

13. "Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me" by Chelsea Handler (Grand Central Publishing)

14. "The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommom Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman" by Timothy Ferriss (Crown Publishing)

15. "Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet" by Marc Ostrofsky (Razor Media)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin (Spectra)

2. "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

3. "Worst Case" by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Vision)

4. "Foreign Influence" by Brad Thor (Pocket)

5. "The Spy" by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott (Berkley)

6. "A Storm of Swords" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

7. "Frankenstein: The Dead Town" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

8. "Just Like Heaven" by Julia Quinn (Avon)

9. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media)

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

11. "Wicked Lies" by Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush (Zebra)

12. "Creed's Honor" by Linda Lael Miller (HQN)

13. "Wicked Lies" by Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush (Zebra)

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

15. "The Cobra" by Frederick Forsyth (Signet)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam Adult)

2. "The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

3. "Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back" by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Colton Burpo and Lynn Vincent (Thomas Nelson)

4. "Water for Elephants: A Novel" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)

5. "Room" by Emma Donoghue (LB/Back Bay)

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

7. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (LB/Back Bay)

8. "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein (Harper)

9. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot (Broadway)

10. "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan (Anchor)

11. "The Glass Castle: A Memoir" by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)

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

13. "One Day" by David Nicholls (Vintage)

14. "Thank You Notes" by Jimmy Fallon and the Writers of Late Night (Grand Central Publishing)

15. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne)

Comments

[woodleigh]

06:57 PM on 06/26/2011

JESUS THE LAST NEPHILIM ISBN:978-1-84748-979.
It is the birth of Jesus...but not quite as we know it.A mysterious figure known as Enlil-Jehovah, is behind Herod's order to kill baby boys,forcing Mary to hide her son.However, help arrives in the form of Enki,who turns out to be a member of an alien race,called the Nephilim.Jesus is taken to the Nephilim home planet,Planet X, where he is kept safe and taught the ways of the Nephilim. He is told the truth about the history of Earth and his own heritage-that humanity were created by the Nephilim,who still live on Earth, secretly controlling everything.

[dahpunkster]

12:09 PM on 06/26/2011

If you were here - by Jen Lancaster It is about a woman who writes amish zombie novels that buys the house from seventeen candles in chicago and tries to fix it up. Her and her husband thought it would be easy because they watch hdtv all the time. All the references to the breakfast club and some kind of wonderful and the thompson twins were awesome.
I wish I could shake this woman's hand and say good job! keep writing. She writes stuff geared to woman,but men would probably like it as well.

[dahpunkster]

12:04 PM on 06/26/2011

The late lamented molly marx. ( she's dead and not sure how it happened and pretty ticked she is dead at thirty five. First it was so cliche and the wealthy whiny character annoyed me. But in the middle of the book, It got pretty fabulous. It raised a lot of questions about why we do what we do. And I learned alot about being Jewish that I didn't know.

[dahpunkster]

11:56 AM on 06/26/2011

remarkable creatures by tracy chevalier. painfully slow at the start but so worth the read. It is about two women in regency england that hunt for fossils on the beaches of Lyme - Regis. One is somewhat rich very educated and having a hard time dealing with ravages of age. The other is a young girl trying to eat and stay out of debtor's prison.

[cheo]

04:37 AM on 06/26/2011

There are some on that list I've read and some which look intriguing. Am definitely interested in Ann Patchett and Erik Larsen's new books. Need to check out some reviews, it look's like. I'm coming to the end of my current book.

Been digging back into the past a bit with Warren's "All The King's Men", and Le Carre's "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold". Both were very good. Great writing by Warren.

I recently finished "Agincourt" and the entire Cornwell "Sharpe" series, Conroy's "Beach Music", Lucy Christopher's "Stolen", Stockett's "The Help", The Stieg Larsson trilogy, and Zusak's "The Book Thief".
For a bit lighter fare, I've been loving Alan Bradley's Flavia DeLuce series, Mary Roach's "Packing for Mars", and George R.R. Martin's "Fire and Ice" series.

All of these, especially Verghese's "Cutting for Stone", are recommended.

Books are are as bad as yarn; I always have too many sitting around waiting to be read, and new ones just keep coming out.

[angelalyons26]

05:32 AM on 06/25/2011

I just now received my free product sample from name brand companies, quite a few of them from "123 Samples" online

[BlueZoo]

09:54 PM on 06/24/2011

Word of warning: The Tom Clancy book is NOT written by Tom Clancy and it is obvious from the beginning that he only loaned his name to it. Story isn't even good.

I'm reading Eric Larson's new book "In the Garden of Beasts" about the American Ambassador and his family in Nazi Germany pre-WWII. It is riveting and surreal. Larson's research is impeccable!

[cheo]

04:20 AM on 06/26/2011

Thanks for the Larsen recommendation: it makes me want to read it.