| This Week | Title | Last Week | Weeks on List |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Shack
Author: William P. Young; Publisher: Windblown; ISBN: 9780964729230
A man's relationship with God is changed when his daughter is abducted.
|
1 | 12 |
| 2 |
Out Stealing Horses
Author: Per Petterson; Publisher: Picador; ISBN: 9780312427085
A widower's recollections of a day with his childhood friend.
|
2 | 15 |
| 3 |
Loving Frank
Author: Nancy Horan; Publisher: Ballantine; ISBN: 9780345495006
Horan's fictionalized account of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney's love story is now available in paperback.
|
3 | 18 |
| 4 |
Run
Author: Ann Patchett; Publisher: Harper Perennial; ISBN: 9780061340642
An intimate domestic drama from the author of Bel Canto.
|
6 | 2 |
| 5 |
Water for Elephants
Author: Sara Gruen; Publisher: Algonquin; ISBN: 9781565125605
An indie fave about a traveling circus comes to paperback.
|
4 | * |
| 6 |
In the Woods
Author: Tana French; Publisher: Penguin; ISBN: 9780143113492
French's debut novel is a gripping story of the murder of a child in a suburb of Dublin.
|
5 | 12 |
| 7 |
Away
Author: Amy Bloom; Publisher: Random House; ISBN: 9780812977790
An extraordinary trek across America, and through unsentimental emotional landscapes.
|
7 | 7 |
| 8 |
The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy; Publisher: Vintage; ISBN: 9780307387899
A barren, post-apocalyptic landscape is the foreground, and background, for this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
|
10 | * |
| 9 |
On Chesil Beach
Author: Ian McEwan; Publisher: Anchor; ISBN: 9780307386175
A wedding night in 1963, sexual repression, and patented McEwan prose.
|
8 | 9 |
| 10 |
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Author: Michael Chabon; Publisher: Harper Perennial; ISBN: 9780007149834
A fanciful and believable tale of a Yiddish-speaking detective in Alaska.
|
9 | 15 |
| 11 |
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Author: Kate Jacobs; Publisher: Berkley; ISBN: 9780425219096
The heartwarming story of a yarn shop owner and her 12 year-old biracial daughter.
|
11 | 32 |
| 12 |
The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho; Publisher: HarperOne; ISBN: 9780061122415
A boy's journey and metamorphosis, with new bonus material.
|
13 | * |
| 13 |
Songs Without Words
Author: Ann Packer; Publisher: Vintage; ISBN: 9780375727177
The follow-up to Packer's The Dive From Clausen's Pier.
|
-- | 1 |
| 14 |
The Maytrees
Author: Annie Dillard; Publisher: Harper Perennial; ISBN: 9780061239540
Free-spirited characters are dazzled by Cape Cod and the sea in a lyrically beautiful novel.
|
12 | 9 |
| 15 |
Nineteen Minutes
Author: Jodi Picoult; Publisher: Washington Square; ISBN: 9780743496735
A high school shooting rampage is the contemporary issue for Picoult's novel.
|
14 | 26 |