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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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    We get e-letters

    By MinnPost staff | Published Wed, Nov 4 2009 2:40 pm

    MinnPost’s Book Club Club gets a lot of e-mails. We’ll publish a roundup whenever the e-box gets full.

    Current reads -- and some recommendations -- from our clubs
    We now have 119 registered clubs, plus 112 open-to-the-public clubs, in the BCC family. Here's what some are reading, alphabetized by club name.

    Note to captains: when you send in a title, let us know whether your club recommends the book to others.

    • Apollo's Luminaries: “Anastasia,” the first book of the Ringing Cedars series.
    • Bookaroos: "The Sea, The Sea" by Iris Murdoch. Recommended to other clubs? “Yes!!!!”
    • Columbus Avenue Book Club: “City of Thieves” by David Benioff. Recommended to other clubs? Yes. “We all liked this book.”
    • The Great Escape Book Club: "American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld.
    • Minnesota West: “We Are All Welcome Here” by Elizabeth Berg. 
    • Peyton Place Book Club: “This Side of Paradise” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Recommended to other clubs? Yes.
    • Robert Trail Library Book Discussion Group: “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman. Recommended to other clubs? “Would recommend it to a club that doesn’t mind a little heavier reading.”
    • Unnamed club meeting in South Minneaplis/Longfellow: “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie.

    A winter experiment, open to the public
    Books & Bars is going to meet twice monthly in winter as an experiment. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at Bryant Lake Bowl. Starts Jan. 12, with "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

    Coming soon
    Watch this space for details of our next literary prize drawing.

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    MinnPost's Book Club Club (BCC) is a club made up of existing Minnesota book clubs—a community of engaged readers. Book clubs of all sizes, themes and types that meet anywhere in the state are welcome to join. Membership is free.

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