Here is the combined Print and e-book Fiction List for this week
| This Week | Last Week | Combined Print & E-Book Fiction | Weeks on List | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | TICK TOCK, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown.) The New York detective Michael Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague to solve a rash of horrifying crimes that are throwing the city into chaos. | 3 | |
| 2 | ALONE, by Lisa Gardner. (Random House.) A woman who survived a horrible childhood abduction may have tricked the Massachusetts police sniper Bobby Dodge into killing her husband. | 1 | ||
| 3 | 2 | THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress 40 years earlier; the first volume in the Millennium trilogy. | 3 | |
| 4 | A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, by Deborah Harkness. (Penguin Group.) The recovery of a lost ancient manuscript in a library at Oxford sets a fantastical underworld stirring. | 1 | ||
| 5 | 4 | THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday.) The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist. | 3 | |
| 6 | 3 | THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday.) In the second volume of the Millennium trilogy, a Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect. | 3 | |
| 7 | 5 | WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin.) After his parents die in a car accident, young veterinary student — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus. | 3 | |
| 8 | 6 | CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese. (Knopf Doubleday.) Twin brothers, conjoined at birth and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia. | 3 | |
| 9 | 7 | THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Penguin Group.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi. | 3 | |
| 10 | 8 | THE CONFESSION, by John Grisham. (Knopf Doubleday.) A criminal wants to save an innocent man on death row, but he must convince the authorities he’s telling the truth. | 3 | |
| 11 | 11 | DEAD OR ALIVE, by Tom Clancy with Grant Blackwood. (Penguin Group.) Familiar Clancy characters appear as an intelligence group tracks a vicious terrorist called the Emir. | 3 | |
| 12 | 13 | ROOM, by Emma Donoghue. (Little, Brown.) The entire world of the 5-year-old boy who narrates this novel is the 11-by-11-foot room in which his mother is being held prisoner. | 3 | |
| 13 | 9 | MARRYING DAISY BELLAMY, by Susan Wiggs. (Harlequin.) A woman struggles for years to choose between two men. And then, one fateful day, the decision is made for her. | 3 | |
| 14 | THE SECRET SOLDIER, by Alex Berenson. (Penguin Group.) When the king of Saudi Arabia is threatened, the former C.I.A. operative John Wells goes undercover to help. | 1 | ||
| 15 | 12 | STRATEGIC MOVES, by Stuart Woods. (Penguin Group.) In the 19th Stone Barrington novel, the New York lawyer works with the C.I.A. to transport a fugitive. | 3 | |
So scanning through this list I realized that I haven't read any of these books. I've heard of a few of them or seen them in stores but I haven't actually read any. Maybe I should...
I sometimes wonder if bestseller lists in general are all that accurate. Authors seem so proud if they get on the New York Times Bestsellers list. But does it really mean anything?I mean yes they sell; but do people actually enjoy reading them? I've bought quite a few books that I thought I would enjoy that ending up being flops. Would a most enjoyed books list be better?
I need help from you guys here. Has anyone read these books? Are they any good? What am I missing?
3 comments:
I have read "the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and I must say that it is a good book for just paying attention to plot without much character developement. It is still a good book to just to get lost in but only if you can deal with some of the darker themes in the novel
Maybe I'll give it a try... Sorry about the annoying font. I'm not sure how to change it!
I've heard that the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is good but I haven't read it yet, let me know what you think if you end up reading it, okay? :)
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