PICK LISTS
New York Times Bestsellers
Fiction
1. Home Front by Kristin Hannah
2. The Capture of the Earl… by Stephanie Laurens
3. Extremely Loud…by Jonathan Safran Foer
4. The Summer Garden by Sherryl Woods
5. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
6. Private: #1 Suspect by James Patterson
7.Defending Jacob by William Landay
8. The Girl With the Dragon… by Stieg Larsson
9. The Girl Who Played…by Stieg Larsson
10. The Girl Who Kicked… by Stieg Larsson
Non-Fiction
- Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson
- American Sniper by Chris Kyle
- Ameritopia by Mark R. Levin
- Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
- Quiet by Susan Cain
- Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Coming Apart by Charles Murray
- The Immortal Life… by Rebecca Skloot
indieBound
The Indie NEXT List
- Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
- The Orphan’s Master Son by Adam Johnson
- The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
- Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot
- Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith
- A Charitable Body by Robert Barnard
- The Journal of Best Practices by David Finch
- Glaciers by Alex M. Smith
- The Demi-Monde: Winter by Rod Rees
- Vulture Pack by John Burdett
More at NYTimes and IndieBound
STAFF PICKS
Louise recommends Cost by Roxana Robinson. This novel was named the Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, who describes it as “richly honest and humane – summer reading of uncommon stature.”
Molly recommends worldwide bestseller Watership Down by award-winning author Richard Adams. The Chicago Tribune describes it as “spellbinding” and “marvelous.”
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