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| INDIEBOUND AND THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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- Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
Hardcover Fiction list for January 1, 2009,
for sales ending December 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
Hardcover Nonfiction list for January 1, 2009,
for sales ending December 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Trade Paperback Fiction Bestsellers
Trade Paperback Fiction list for January 1, 2009,
for sales ending December 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore - Trade Paperback Nonfiction Bestsellers
Trade Paperback Nonfiction list for January 1, 2009,
for sales ending December 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore - Mass Market Bestsellers
Mass Market list for January 1, 2009,
for sales ending December 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Children's Illustrated Bestsellers
Children's Illustrated list for January 1, 2009,
for sales ending December 28, 2008.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
For an independent bookstore store - Children's Interest Bestsellers
Children's Interest list for January 1, 2009,
for sales ending December 28, 2008.
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What is hot in the bookselling world, broken down by category.
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| New York Times - Reviews |
- Author of ‘Conversations With God’ Admits Essay Wasn’t His
A personal Christmas tale posted online by the author Neale Donald Walsch turns out to belong to someone else — the writer Candy Chand, who - Books of The Times: In War and Floods, a Family’s Leitmotif of Love, Memories and Secrets
Jayne Anne Phillips’s intricate, deeply felt new novel fuses wildly disparate influences into something incandescent and utterly original.
- Executives Replaced at Borders as Sales Fall
The book retailer said that George L. Jones would be succeeded by Ron Marshall, a private equity executive with experience turning around ailing companies.
- Arts, Briefly: Laura Bush Signs Deal for Her Memoirs
Scribner has acquired Mrs. Bush’s not-yet-titled book, which will include her experiences in the White House, and plans to publish it in 2010.
- Puttin’ Off the Ritz: The New Austerity in Publishing
Amid a relentless string of layoffs and pay-freeze announcements, book publishers are clamping down on some of the business’s most glittery and cozy traditions.
- Books of The Times: They Vacuum Maggots, Don’t They? Novel Delves Into the Trauma Cleaning Trade
Charlie Huston has written a smoking-hot new crime novel.
- Footsteps: Kyoto Celebrates a 1,000-Year Love Affair
This city, known for its shrines and blazing autumn hills, is celebrating the millennial anniversary of an ancient book about love and loss among the - Books of The Times: The Man Who Discovered Oxygen (Maybe) and Gave the World Soda Water
Steven Johnson’s portrait of the 18th-century chemist, theologian and perennial agitator Joseph Priestley is also a lament about the intellectual specialization of our modern age.
- Donald E. Westlake, Mystery Writer, Is Dead at 75
The prolific, award-winning novelist pounded out more than 100 books and five screenplays during his career.
- Princess Leia’s Wit Tames the Dark Side
The title of Carrie Fisher’s funny, sardonic little memoir is a bit misleading.
- Rough Crossing
In Robin Romm’s account of her mother’s death from cancer, her fury is transformed into an instrument for pursuing truth.
- Method and Madness
The first serious Brando biography since his death includes a survey of his posthumous legacy.
- Reading Mom and Dad in Tehran
The author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran” fleshes out personal stories left untold or half-told in her earlier work.
- Oh So ’80s
In Chuck Klosterman’s first novel: nostalgia, angst and football.
- All American
In her new story collection, Louise Erdrich chronicles Native American ways, but also captures the voices of multitudes.
- Woman’s Estate
A journalist reports on the family drama surrounding Brooke Astor’s decline.
- Out of Egypt
The novelist Alaa Al Aswany places his emigré characters in post-9/11 Chicago.
- The Reader
A tantalizing study of Hitler’s book collection and what it says about the man.
- Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me
Graham Greene’s letters reveal a man in constant search of “the exciting thing” -- the insurgencies and coups of the world.
 - Christopher Hibbert, 84, Lively Historian, Dies
Mr. Hibbert won a wide readership with his popular approach to historical subjects.
- Essay: America, ‘Amerika’
A new translation of Kafka’s unfinished first novel, set in a dream-world that is not quite America.
- Samuel Huntington and the Positivity of Power Thinking
Samuel Huntington, the political theorist who died on Dec. 24, demonstrated the potency and peril of the big idea.
- The Plot Curdles
A modest proposal for bailing out the publishing industry.
- Books: Still Paging Mr. Salinger
Revered for “The Catcher in the Rye” and the Glass family, J. D. Salinger remains elusive on his 90th birthday.
- The Funny Pages | Sunday Serial: The Girl in the Green Raincoat
Last chapter: Tess Monaghan, recognizing that her best friend ran true to Don Epstein’s type, asked Whitney to flirt with the man. And Whitney, as
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