Sunday, July 22, 2012

'Batman: Earth One' debuts at No. 8 on new best-selllers list

It’s Sunday, so that means that it’s time for my weekly breakdown of this week’s Publishers Weekly Best-Seller List. According to the list, there are two new books at the top of the four major best-sellers lists this week.

"Shadow of Night" by Deborah E. Harkness replaced "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn as the No. 1 book on the hardcover fiction best-sellers list.

"Wild" by Cheryl Strayed replaced "Leadocracy: Hiring More Great Leaders into Government" by Geoff Smart as the top book on the hardcover nonfiction best-sellers list.

"The Litigators" by John Grisham remained the No. 1 book on the mass market paperback best-sellers list for the third week in a row.

"Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L. James retained its place atop the trade paperbacks best-sellers list for the fifteenth week in a row.

There are eight books on this week’s hardcover fiction best-sellers list that weren’t on that list last week. They (along with their place on the list) include "Shadow of Night" by Deborah E. Harkness (1), "I, Michael Bennett" by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (2), "Backfire" by Catherine Coulter (4), "The Great Escape" by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (7), "Batman: Earth One" by Geoff Johns (8), "The Prisoner of Heaven" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (10), "15 Seconds" by Andrew Gross (11) and "Night Watch" Linda Fairstein (14).

There are five books on this week’s hardcover nonfiction best-sellers list that weren’t on the list last week. They include "Dream Team" by Jack McCallum (4), "Cupcakes and Cashmere" by Emily Schuman (9), "Mick" by Christopher Andersen (10), "It's the Middle Class, Stupid!" James Carville and Stan Greenberg (11) and "Six Weeks to OMG" by Venice A. Fulton (12).

There were no new books on this week’s mass market paperbacks best-sellers list. The same 15 books made the list. They were just in a different order. That doesn’t happen very often with any of the lists. I’d say it usually occurs about once a year, twice at the most.

There was only one books on this week’s trade paperbacks best-sellers list that wasn’t on the list last week - "A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah E. Harkness, which was No. 12 on the list.

As a reminder, I’m posting these lists each Sunday because they, as a whole, represent a great, contemporary recommended reading list. These lists are initially released each week on Thursday, and if you’re interested in reading them then, visit Publishers Weekly’s Web site at www.publishersweekly.com. Below you’ll find all four of this week’s best-seller lists.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "Shadow of Night" by Deborah E. Harkness
2. "I, Michael Bennett" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
3. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
4. "Backfire" by Catherine Coulter
5. "The Next Best Thing: A Novel" by Jennifer Weiner
6. "Wicked Business" by Janet Evanovich
7. "The Great Escape" by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
8. "Batman: Earth One" by Geoff Johns
9. "A Dance with Dragons" by George R.R. Martin
10. "The Prisoner of Heaven" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
11. "15 Seconds" by Andrew Gross
12. "Calico Joe" by John Grisham
13. "Summerland" by Elin Hilderbrand
14. "Night Watch" Linda Fairstein
15. "Bloodline: A Sigma Force Novel" by James Rollins

HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed
2. "The Amateur" by Edward Klein
3. "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
4. "Dream Team" by Jack McCallum
5. "The Skinny Rules" by Bob Harper with Greg Critser
6. "Cowards" by Glenn Beck
7. "The Great Destroyer" by David Limbaugh
8. "It Worked for Me" by Colin Powell
9. "Cupcakes and Cashmere" by Emily Schuman
10. "Mick" by Christopher Andersen
11. "It's the Middle Class, Stupid!" James Carville/ Stan Greenberg
12. "Six Weeks to OMG" by Venice A. Fulton
13. "American Sniper" by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
14. "The President Club" by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
15. "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "The Litigators" by John Grisham
2. "Safe Haven" by Nicholas Sparks
3. "Split Second" by Catherine Coulter
4. "Savor the Moment" by Nora Roberts
5. "Private Games" by James Patterson
6. "Family Affair" by Debbie Macomber
7. "The Silent Girl" by Tess Gerritsen
8. "Samurai Game" by Christine Feehan
9. "Midnight Promises" by Sherryl Woods
10. "Gun Games" by Faye Kellerman
11. "Summer People" by Elin Hilderbrand
12. "Explosive Eighteen" by Janet Evanovich
13. "Summer Nights" by Susan Mallery
14. "Afraid to Die" Lisa Jackson
15. "Moonshell Beach: A Shelter Bay Novel" by JoAnn Ross

TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L. James
2. "Fifty Shades Darker" by E.L. James
3. "Fifty Shades Freed" by E.L. James
4. "Bared to You" by Sylvia Day
5. "The Litigators" by John Grisham
6. "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
7. "Private Games" by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
8. "To Heaven And Back" by Mary C. Neal
9. "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Lawson
10. "A Stolen Life: a Memoir" by Jaycee Lee Dugard
11. "Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles
12. "A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah E. Harkness
13. "Farenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
14. "Home Again" by Kristin Hannah
15. "The Last Boyfriend: Book Two of the InnsBoro Trilogy" by Nora Roberts

In the end, let me know if you’ve had a chance to read any of these books. What did you think about them? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.

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