Boston Globe Bestsellers: August 16-August 22
"The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" is again the top hardcover fiction seller.
Former Globe staff critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell tops the hardcover nonfiction list with her new book "Let's Take the Long Way Home."
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" remains the top paperback fiction seller.
"Eat, Pray, Love," by Elizabeth Gilbert, is still at the top of the paperback nonfiction list.
Click below to see 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. Star Island
By Carl Hiaasen. Knopf.
4. The Red Queen
By Philippa Gregory. Touchstone.
5. The Cookbook Collector
By Allegra Goodman. Dial.
6. Catching Fire
By Suzanne Collins. Scholastic.
7. Super Sad True Love Story
By Gary Shteyngart. Random House.
7. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
By David Mitchell. Random House.
7. Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
By Eoin Colfer. Hyperion.
10. Comedy in a Minor Key
By Hans Keilson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Let’s Take the Long Way Home
By Gail Caldwell. Random House.
2. The Big Short
By Michael Lewis. W.W. Norton.
3. Women Food and God
By Geneen Roth. Scribner.
4. Sh*t My Dad Says
By Justin Halpern. It.
5. War
By Sebastian Junger. Twelve.
6. Washington Rules
By Andrew Bacevich. Metropolitan.
6. Start With Why
By Simon Sinek. Portfolio.
6. The Great Typo Hunt
By Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson. Crown.
6. Packing for Mars
By Mary Roach. W.W. Norton.
10. Four Fish
By Paul Greenberg. Penguin.
Paperback Fiction
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.
2. 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. The Lacuna
By Barbara Kingsolver. Harper Perennial.
6. Cutting for Stone
By Abraham Verghese. Vintage.
7. One Day
By David Nicholls. Vintage.
8. The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins. Scholastic.
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. Zeitoun
By Dave Eggers. Vintage.
3. Where Men Win Glory
By Jon Krakauer. Anchor.
4. Lit
By Mary Karr. Harper Perennial.
5. Kitchen Confidential
By Anthony Bourdain. Ecco.
6. Three Cups of Tea
By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Penguin.
7. My Horizontal Life
By Chelsea Handler. Bloomsbury.
7. Boston Restaurants 2010/2011
By Zagat Survey. Zagat.
9. Organizing Schools for Improvement
By Anthony S. Bryk, Penny Bender Sebring, Elaine Allensworth, and Stuart Luppescu. University of Chicago.
10. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
By Rhoda Janzen. Holt.
Source: Boston area bookstores.
