Boston Globe Bestsellers, August 1-August 8
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" is again the top hardcover fiction seller.
"Medium Raw" leads in hardcover nonfiction sales.
"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" and "The Girl Who Played With Fire" tie for the top spot in paperback fiction, further showing Stieg Larsson's current dominance of fiction sales.
"Eat, Pray, Love" has made its way back to the top of the paperback nonfiction list.
Click below for the full lists.
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
By Stieg Larsson. Knopf.
2. The Help
By Kathryn Stockett. Putnam.
3. Faithful Place
By Tana French. Viking.
4. The Rembrandt Affair
By Daniel Silva. Putnam.
5. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
By David Mitchell. Random House.
6. Fly Away Home
By Jennifer Weiner. Atria.
7. The Red Pyramid
By Rick Riordan. Hyperion.
8. The Cookbook Collector
By Allegra Goodman. Dial.
9. The Passage
By Justin Cronin. Ballantine.
10. Corduroy Mansions
By Alexander McCall Smith. Pantheon.
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Medium Raw
By Anthony Bourdain. Ecco.
2. The Big Short
By Michael Lewis. W.W. Norton.
3. Women Food and God
By Geneen Roth. Scribner.
4. Born to Run
By Christopher McDougall. Knopf.
5. Sh*t My Dad Says
By Justin Halpern. It.
6. The Obama Diaries
By Laura Ingraham. Threshold
7. The Last Stand
By Nathaniel Philbrick. Viking.
8. Denial: A Memoir of Terror
By Jessica Stern. Ecco.
9. War
By Sebastian Junger. Twelve.
10. Hamlet’s Blackberry
By William Powers. Harper.
Paperback Fiction
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.
1. The Girl Who Played with Fire
By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.
3. Tinkers
By Paul Harding. Bellevue.
4. Little Bee
By Chris Cleave. Simon & Schuster.
5. One Day
By David Nicholls. Vintage.
6. The Lacuna
By Barbara Kingsolver. Harper Perennial.
7. Best Friends Forever
By Jennifer Weiner. Washington Square.
8. Cutting for Stone
By Abraham Verghese. Vintage.
9. Bad Things Happen
By Harry Dolan. Berkley Trade.
10. Let the Great World Spin
By Colum McCann. Random House.
Paperback Nonfiction
1. Eat, Pray, Love
By Elizabeth Gilbert. Penguin.
2. Three Cups of Tea
By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Penguin.
3. Zeitoun
By Dave Eggers. Vintage.
4. Lit
By Mary Karr. Harper Perennial.
5. The Tipping Point
By Malcolm Gladwell. Back Bay.
6. The Devil in the White City
By Erik Larson. Vintage.
7. Kitchen Confidential
By Anthony Bourdain. Ecco.
8. Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Practice Pack
By Jonathan J. White, Scott Searcy, Teri Stimmel, and Danielle Lutz. Cliffs Notes.
9. The Black Swan
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Random House.
10. Freakonomics
By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Harper Perennial.
Source: Boston area bookstores
