Boston Globe Bestsellers: Oct. 3-10
"Freedom" remains the best hardcover fiction seller.
"Earth (The Book)" is still at the top of the hardcover nonfiction list.
"Little Bee" has usurped Stieg Larsson's longtime hold on the top paperback fiction spot, which has recently been held by "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and/or "The Girl who Played with Fire."
"Eat, Pray, Love" is still the top paperback fiction seller.
Click below to see the full lists.
Hardcover Fiction
1. Freedom
By Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
2. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
By David Sedaris. Little, Brown.
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (tie)
By Stieg Larsson. Knopf.
3. Fall of Giants
By Ken Follett. Dutton.
5. Room
By By Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown.
6. To the End of the Land
By David Grossman. Knopf.
7. Don’t Blink
By James Patterson and Howard Roughan. Little, Brown.
8. The Help
By Kathryn Stockett. Putnam.
9. Mockingjay
By Suzanne Collins. Scholastic.
10. The Widower’s Tale
By Julia Glass. Pantheon.
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Earth (The Book)
By Jon Stewart. Grand Central.
2. Obama’s Wars
By Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster.
3. The Grand Design (tie)
By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. Bantam.
3. [expletive] Finish First
By Tucker Max. Gallery.
5. The Power
By Rhonda Byrne. Atria.
6. The Warmth of Other Suns (tie)
By Isabel Wilkerson. Random House.
6. The Big Short
By Michael Lewis. W.W. Norton.
8. Aftershock
By David Wiedemer, Robert Wiedemer, and Cindy Spitzer. Wiley.
9. True Prep
By Lisa Birnbach and Chip Kidd. Knopf.
10. I Hope they Serve Beer in Hell
By Tucker Max. Citadel.
Paperback Fiction
1. Little Bee
By Chris Cleave. Simon & Schuster.
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.
3. The Girl who Played with Fire (tie)
By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.
3. Tinkers
By Paul Harding. Bellevue.
5. Cutting for Stone
By Abraham Verghese. Vintage.
6. A Gate at the Stairs
By Lorrie Moore. Vintage.
7. Half Broke Horses
By Jeannette Walls. Scribner.
8. The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins. Scholastic.
9. The Lacuna
By Barbara Kingsolver. Harper Perennial.
10. Wolf Hall
By Hilary Mantel. Picador.
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. Where Men Win Glory
By Jon Krakauer. Anchor.
5. The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2011
By Old Farmer’s Almanac. OFA.
6. My Horizontal Life
By Chelsea Handler. Bloomsbury.
7. Atypical (tie)
By Jesse A. Saperstein. Perigee.
7. The Gardner Heist
By Ulrich Boser. Harper.
7. Inside of a Dog
By Alexandra Horowitz. Scribner.
10. Lit
By Mary Karr. Harper Perennial.
Source: Boston area bookstores.
