The readers’s advisory librarian’s weekly update, from a scan of more than 100 blogs, newsletters, magazines, newspapers and television. This blog is brought to you by the Reader’s Advisor Online, the subscription database based on Libraries Unlimited’s Genreflecting Advisory series. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

By Cindy Orr

New Titles On the Bestseller Lists

Fiction
THE JEFFERSON KEY, by Steve Berry
THE FINAL STORM, by Jeff Shaara

Nonfiction
WHERE’S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?, by Jerome R. Corsi
AREA 51, by Annie Jacobsen
THE PSYCHOPATH TEST, by Jon Ronson
ON CHINA, by Henry Kissinger
TO END ALL WARS, by Adam Hochschild

Original Paperbacks
NAKED HEAT, by Richard Castle
ONE SECOND AFTER, by William R. Forstchen
ONE MAGIC MOMENT, by Lynn Kurland
CLASSIFIED AS MURDER, by Miranda James
MURDER UNDER COVER, by Kate Carlisle

Graphic Books
BATMAN & ROBIN, VOL. 3, by Grant Morrison and others
PAYING FOR IT, by Chester Brown
PINOCCHIO, by Winshluss
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN, VOL. 2
NEGIMA! MAGISTER NEGI MAGI, VOL. 29
SHUGO CHARA!, VOL. 10, by Peach-Pit
FAIRY TAIL, VOL. 13, by Hiro Mashima
BIOMEGA, VOL. 6, by Tsutomu Nihei

For the best links to this week’s bestsellers broken down into formats and categories, Most Wanted: Bestseller Links look to the righthand column.

---

To Be Published This Week:

Lori Foster – Trace of Fever – 9780373775750 – 350,000

Christie Golden – The Shattering – 9781439172742 – 125,000

Steve Martini – Trader of Secrets (Paul Madriani) – 9780061930232 – 250,000 One-day laydown

Linda Lael Miller – Creed’s Honor – 9780373775804 – 768,800

Alexis Morgan – The Darkness Beyond (Paladin) – 9781439176054 – 150,000

Sharon Sala – Blood Ties (mass market) – 9780778312642 – 122,900

Lynsay Sands - The Reluctant Vampire (Argeneau Vampire Series #15)

Lisa See – Dreams of Joy – 9781400067121

Nalini Singh – Kiss of Snow – 9780425242094 – 100,000

Karin Slaughter – Fallen – 9780345528209

Sherryl Woods – Beach Lane (mass market) – 9780778329893 – 555,000

Barbara Sinatra – Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank – 9780307382337 – 125,000

Nalini Singh – Kiss of Snow (Psy/Changeling) – 9780425242094

Gertrude Stein – To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays (picture book) – 9780300170979

Tim Tebow – Through My Eyes – 9780062007285 – 200,000

Kurt Vonnegut – Novels & Stories 1963-1973 – 9781598530988

Oscar Hijuelos – Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir – 9781592406296

This is just a sample. Scroll down or click here for the complete list.

---

Under the Radar List

Look to the right hand column just under the Most Wanted Mashup for our Under the Radar List. This week it’s New Celebrity Memoirs.

---

News of the Week:

Amazon hires veteran Time Warner publisher Larry Kirshbaum to build up its new publishing division

Unbelievable: Disney applied for a trademark on the phrase “Seal Team 6″ two days after Osama bin Laden was killed by the US Navy’s Seal Team 6. The application covers clothing, toys, games, and much more; while a spokesperson from Disney says their intentions were misunderstood

Publishers Weekly sets up firewall; digital version will be embargoed for nonsubscribers until 3 weeks after it appears in print; reviews available to subscribers only

Google eBooks Now Sold at 250 Indie Bookstores

Queens Library has stopped buying new books this year because of drastic budget cuts

Barry Eisler won’t self-publish his next book as he first announced (and for which he turned down a $500K advance from his traditional publisher). Instead, he will be published by Amazon’s new publishing division.

USA Today’s Top 150 gets a new look

James Patterson to end Maximum Ride series

Seems like Harper Lee did grant interviews to her biographer after all

Librarians at BEA speak out about eBooks

Literary authors jump on the supernatural band wagon

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor receives a $1.174 million advance for a memoir from Knopf

Sterling buys rights to out-of-print back list of books by Alistair Maclean and Len Deighton…a total of 57 titles

Booksellers’ handselling dos and don’ts

Oprah Winfrey will try to develop a show for books and authors on her new network OWN

Editors’ BEA picks and Top 26 books at BEA plus The ten hottest prospects of BEA and
The big books of BEA and PW’s version

A country without libraries

Five lessons I learned from mystery novels

3M to launch library eBook program at ALA

---

Books on Screen

First trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Upcoming literary adaptations for summer: Mr. Popper’s Penguins and more

---

Awards

Nebula Award Winners

UK Crime Fest Awards

Gary Shteyngart is first American to win the Wodehouse Prize

Audie Award winners

Lambda Literary Award winners

1st Annual Indie Booksellers Choice Awards Shortlist

John Banville wins Kafka Prize–thought by some to be a precurson to a Nobel prize

---

Authors

Rick Riordan – on the next big book in his Heroes of Olympus series: The Son of Neptune

Gil Scott-Heron – obituary

Dick Wimmer – obituary

---

Lists

Beach Books of Summer

Summer Reads

Indie Mystery & Thriller Bestsellers List

The 5 biggest-selling books in the movies

Books to Bury Yourself In (summer reading)

---

Lighthearted Link of the Week

A Field Guide to the Flora and Fauna of BEA

Bookmark to:

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 29th, 2011 at 2:03 pm and is filed under RA Run Down. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.