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MINNESOTA BEST-SELLERS

About once a month, we'll ask two booksellers — one independent and one chain — for current best-sellers. The specific booksellers will change every month.

BUFFALO BOOKS
6 Division Street, Buffalo
TOP 10 FICTION
1. Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn
2. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
4. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
5. A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris
6. Ford County by John Grisham
7. The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan
8. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
9. Rough Country by John Sandford
10. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

TOP 10 NONFICTION
1. Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds Reason by Caroline Myss
2. Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley B. Sullenberger
3. The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
4. American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood by Marc Eliot
5. Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul by Deepak Chopra
6. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
7. True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy
8. A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity by Bill O'Reilly
9. Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck
10. The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow

B. DALTON BOOKSELLERS
Highway 2 West, Bemidji
TOP 10 FICTION
1. Ford County by John Grisham
2. The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan
3. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
4. True Blue by David Baldacci
5. The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
6. Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn
7. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
8. Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
9. Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
10. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

TOP 10 NONFICTION
1. It's Your Time by Joel Osteen
2. Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
3. Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
4. What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
5. Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck
6. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
7. Knockout by Suzanne Somers
8. True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy
9. Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
10. Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul by Deepak Chopra

 

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    Book clubs are so hot

    By Audra Otto | Published Tue, Sep 22 2009 10:45 am

    Hip or not, if you belong to a book club, you are definitely trendy. With over a million book groups nationwide, it’s clear that book clubs are — to reference "Zoolander" — so hot right now.

    Five years ago, Rachel Jacobsohn, author of "The Reading Group Handbook" and founder of the Association of Book Group Readers and Leaders, estimated that 7 to 8 million Americans were involved in book clubs. And the popularity of reading groups has only grown since then.

    Increasingly, book club members are themselves the subjects of popular books. Not only have countless guides been published for book clubs, but novels, memoirs and mysteries about book clubs have surged, often landing on the best-seller lists.

    If the idea of reading a book about a book club isn’t too trendy for you, check out these titles.

    If you’ve already read one (or more), did it make you proud or embarrassed to be in a book club?

    Books about book clubs
    "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society." Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows. 2008.

    "The Girls Who Saw Everything." Sean Dixon. 2007.

    "Real Murders" (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries). Charlaine Harris. 2007.

    "The Romance Readers Book Club." Julie L. Cannon. 2007.

    "Summer Reading." Hilma Wolitzer. 2007.

    "Dinner with Anna Karenina." Gloria Goldreich. 2006.

    "González & Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License." María Amparo Escandón. 2005.

    "The Jane Austen Book Club." Karen Joy Fowler. 2004.

    "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons." Lorna Landvik. 2003.

    "The Bronxville Book Club." Pamela Hackett Hobson. 2003.

    "The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo." Paula Huntley. 2003.

    "Pure Fiction." Julie Highmore. 2003.

    "The Reading Group." Elizabeth Noble. 2003.

    "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books." Azar Nafisi. 2003.

    "Murder in Volume." D. R. Meredith. 2000.

    "Playing with Light." Beatriz Rivera. 2000.

    "The Book Club." Mary Alice Monroe. 1999.

    "Mother-Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading." Shireen Dodson. 1997.

    "And Ladies of the Club." Helen Hooven Santmyer. 1982.

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