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By Cindy Orr
New Titles On the Bestseller Lists
Fiction
Jodi Picoult – Sing You Home
Nora Roberts – Chasing Fire
Lisa Scottoline – Save Me
David Foster Wallace – The Pale King
and watch:
Kyung-Sook Shin – Please Look After Mom
Sister Souljah – Midnight and the Meaning of Love
Nonfiction
Katie Couric – The Best Advice I Ever Got
Kerry Patterson, et al. – Change Anything
Nikki Sixx – This Is Gonna Hurt
Myron Wentz, Dave Wentz – The Healthy Home
Watch:
Stephenie Meyer – The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide
Mass Market Paperback
David Michaels – Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Combat Ops
Jodi Thomas – Texas Blue
To see the entire Most Wanted Mashup of this week’s bestselling titles, look to the righthand column.
To Be Published This Week:
Sherryl Woods – Moonlight Cove (mass market) – 9780778329794 – 555,000 copies
Christine Feehan – Savage Nature (mass market) – 9780515149333 – 500,000 copies
Rachel Gibson – Any Man of Mine (mass market) – 9780061579110 – 450,000 copies
Lori Foster – When You Dare (mass market) – 9780373775712 – 350,000 copies
Debbie Macomber – A Turn in the Road - 9780778329831 – 300,000 copies
John H. Davis – Twilight of the Godfathers – 9780060195670 – 290,000 copies
Jerry Hall – Jerry Hall: Self-Portrait – 9780062016300 – 250,000 copies
Madeline Hunter – Dangerous in Diamonds (mass market) – 9780515149340 – 210,000 copies
Rob Lowe – Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography – 9780805093292 – 300,000 copies
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 Yummy Buzz: New Nonfiction Foodie Titles.
News of the Week:
Roger Ebert – “Why do I think reading is important? It is such an effective medium between mind and mind. We think largely in words. A medium made only of words doesn’t impose the barrier of any other medium. It is naked and unprotected communication. That’s how you get pregnant. May you always be so.”
Good news for once: W H Smith will open 50 new bookstores in the UK
The truth behind the Laura Ingalls Wilder books
Nominate and vote for the best and worst book trailers
When we read, we psychologically become part of the community described in the narrative
Who is the common reader nowadays?
College basketball star Kemba Walker admits he’s just finished reading his first book cover to cover
Study shows 1 in 4 readers trust book suggestions from Ellen DeGeneres, and 1 in 5 parents would pick The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss to pass on to their children
Greg Mortensen’s insane defense
Piracy is a huge problem…but if that’s true, why are eBook sales growing so quickly?
In defense of military science fiction
The attraction of paper books
I come here to praise Frank and Joe Hardy. . .
The New Yorker book club
Manga pioneer Tokyopop closes US office
Which books don’t sell?
Library of America publishing schedule for 2011 includes Kurt Vonnegut
Salman Rushdie chooses books for NY hotel rooms
Can there ever be a Great American Novel?
Los Angeles Review of Books, “the first major, full-service book review to launch in the 21st century” has a preview edition up
Borders still $50 million short
Stephen Hunter’s rant about the BBC’s snubbing of speculative fiction in their World Book Day coverage morphs into a petition signed by 85 other authors as well
There’s a clear link between reading a good book and getting a good job
Cheap eBooks crowd the bestseller lists
Singer Morrissey of The Smiths says he’d consider publishing his book with Penguin if they designate it a classic
Webinar: Christian Fiction Spring Round-Up – May 5
Books on Screen
Justin Cronin’s The Passage headed to film
Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur is in production
Video from the set of The Hobbit
Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad will be an HBO miniseries
The 10 Most Badly Bungled Classic-Book-To-Film Adaptations
Trailer for Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, coming to the big screen in August
Hugh Laurie will play Mr. Watts in the movie version of Mr. Pip
Dragonriders of Pern will finally be a feature film
HBO orders a second season of Game of Thrones already
Awards
Beryl Bainbridge, five time Booker nominee, finally wins one for Master Georgie…posthumously
Nominees for Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction go to Jennifer Egan for A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, History to The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner, Biography to Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, and Poetry to The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan
2011 Lukas Prize winners
Shirley Jackson Award finalists
YALSA Teens’ Top Ten nominees
2011 Thriller Award Winner nominees
The Dagger Awards longlist
Authors
Beverly Barton – obituary
John Buchan – profile by Michael Dirda
Does the novel have a future?
Jennifer Egan – won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, then the Pulitzer Prize, and now she’s one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world
Lev Grossman – has little affection for authors who are “placing a premium on the difficulty of the reading experience”
Lists
The Best Books on the American Civil War
A Roundup of Books on the Gulf Oil Spill
Biblical Fiction for Easter and Passover from RA for All
Top 10 Quest Narratives
“No one dies but the best friend”: RIP Secondary Characters
Lighthearted Link of the Week
Just what you’ve been waiting for: book-scented fragrance
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