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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.

BOOKIN' IT
104B 2nd St. S.E., Little Falls
TOP 10 FICTION
1. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
2. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
3. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
4. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
5. Chronicles of the Necromancer 4: Dark Lady's Chosen by Gail Z. Martin
6. I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter
7. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
8. All the Living by C.E. Morgan
9. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
10. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

TOP 10 NONFICTION
1. A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink
2. Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss
3. Outside the Lines by Karen Wussow
4. Aitkinsville to Zerf by Maurice Faust
5. The Naked Now by Richard Rohr
6. The Angelic Way by Rami Shapiro
7. Reference Guide for Essential Oils by Connie and Alan Higley
8. Our Neck of the Woods by Daniel Philippon
9. Minnesota 13 by Elaine Davis
10. The Healing of America by T.R. Reid

BARNES AND NOBLE
801 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis
TOP 10 FICTION
1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
3. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
4. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
6. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
7. Shutter Island by Dennis LeHane
8. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
9. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
10. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

TOP 10 NONFICTION
1. Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
2. StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
3. On the Brink by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
4. Food Rules by Michael Pollan
5. The Politician by Andrew Young
6. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
7. Drive by Daniel H. Pink
8. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
9. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
10. Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin

 

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    Lorna Landvik, featured author at the Book Club Blast, loves "good lookin' Scandinavians"

    By MinnPost staff | Published Wed, Feb 3 2010 8:30 am

    Lorna Landvik will talk about "Book Clubs and Me" at the Book Club Blast. More than 130 people have already registered. Event details here.

    MinnPost: Tell us about your latest book release.

    Lorna Landvik: My latest published book is “’Tis the Season” (Ballantine Books), a holiday book released in December 2008.

    It’s about a young celebrity “bad girl” named Caroline Caro Dixon, who tries to achieve sobriety and change her negative public image.

    I am currently working on a new novel.

    MP: Which writers or works have been the strongest influences on your own writing?  

    LL: Maude Hart Lovelace and her “Betsy-Tacy” series influenced me very much when I was a girl; I identified with Betsy, who wanted to be a writer, as well as the friends’ girl-power.  

    I also loved “Caddie Woodlawn” by Carol Ryrie Brink -- I found her a little more wild than Laura Ingalls Wilder.  

    Later favorites/influences include Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Flannery O’Connor, 

    Tom Robbins, Anne Tyler...and any good writer I’m reading at any given moment.  

    MP: What do you love most about living in Minnesota?

    LL: I love our beautiful park system and love that I can live in a big city and yet have two lakes, a waterfall, and a river all within easy walking distance.

    I love the seasons and their colors -- the greens of spring and summer, the golds and reds of autumn and the whiteness of winter (before everything turns to slush).  

    I’m also a big fan of our state’s progressive history and all the good lookin’ Scandinavians!

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