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Children's Books
SCAREDY-CAT, SPLAT!, written and illustrated by Rob Scotton. (Harper/HarperCollins, $16.99.) Splat aims to scare his cat school pals on Halloween. (Ages 3 to 7)LLAMA LLAMA HOLIDAY DRAMA, written and illustrated by Anna Dewdney. (Viking, $16.99.) When the suspense is too much, Llama Llama turns to you-know-who for comfort. (Ages 2 and up)FABULOUS FASHION BOUTIQUE, by Jane O’Connor. Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. (HarperCollins, $17.99.) Fancy Nancy takes an entrepreneurial approach to haute couture. (Ages 4 to 7)KNUFFLE BUNNY FREE, written and illustrated by Mo Willems. (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins, $17.99.) A little girl and her well-loved companion take a trip that leads to unexpected discoveries. (Ages 3 to 7)HEADS, written and illustrated by Matthew Van Fleet. (Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster, $17.99.) Animal noggins with tabs to make them move. (Ages 2 and up)LEGO STAR WARS, by Simon Beecroft. (DK, $21.99.) An annotated visual dictionary. (Ages 7 and up)IT'S A BOOK, written and illustrated by Lane Smith. (Roaring Brook, $12.99.) It doesn’t tweet or need recharging. (Ages 6 and up)ART AND MAX, written and illustrated by David Wiesner. (Clarion, $17.99.) Two artists mix methods and media. (Ages 5 to 8)DC SUPER HEROES, THE ULTIMATE POP-UP BOOK, by the DC Comics staff and Matthew Reinhart. (Little, Brown, $29.99.) Comics, in 3-D. (Ages 3 and up)JIMI: SOUNDS LIKE A RAINBOW, by Gary Golio. Illustrated by Javaka Steptoe. (Clarion, $16.99.) Jimi Hendrix and the origins of his sound. (Ages 6 to 9)THE LOST HERO, by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion, $18.99.) A return to Camp Half-Blood and semi-divine characters old and new. (Ages 10 and up)JUSTIN BIEBER, FIRST STEP 2 FOREVER, by Justin Bieber. (HarperCollins, $21.99.) A young musician reaches out to fans with short takes, Web posts and photos. (Ages 6 to 12)THE RED PYRAMID, by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion, $17.99.) Ancient gods (this time from Egypt) and a mortal family meet. (Ages 10 and up)CRESCENDO, by Becca Fitzpatrick. (Simon & Schuster, $18.99.) A world where the truth is sought and feared; a sequel to “Hush, Hush.” (Ages 14 and up)TORMENT, by Lauren Kate. (Delacorte, $17.99.) A novel about the nephilim, the children of humans and fallen angels. (Ages 12 and up)HARRY POTTER FILM WIZARDRY, by Brian Sibley. (Collins Design/HarperCollins, $39.99.) Deep background, subtext and behind-the screen details from the moviemakers. (Ages 18 and up)CLOCKWORK ANGEL, by Cassandra Clare. (McElderry/Simon & Schuster, $19.99.) Victorian England proves a treacherous place. (Ages 14 and up)BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. (Little, Brown, $17.99.) A return to the secrets and curses of a Southern town. (Ages 12 and up)NIGHTSHADE, by Andrea Cremer. (Philomel, $17.99.) Shapeshifters and wolves populate an elite social circle. (Ages 14 and up)THE SCORCH TRIALS, by James Dashner. (Delacorte, $17.99.) The former denizens of the Maze cope with postapocalyptic plagues. (Ages 12 and up)THE FLEDGLING HANDBOOK 101, by P.C. Cast with Kim Doner. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $12.99.) From history to bodily changes, a compendium on vampirism for neophytesl. (Ages 12 and up)THE BOOK THIEF, by Markus Zusak. (Knopf, $11.99.) A girl saves books from Nazi burning. Excerpt (Ages 14 and up)FALLEN, by Lauren Kate. (Delacorte, $9.99.) Love is thwarted at boarding school. (Ages 12 and up)THE GRAVEYARD BOOK, by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Dave McKean. (HarperCollins, $7.99.) To avoid a killer, a boy lives in a cemetery. Excerpt (Ages 10 and up)HUSH, HUSH, by Becca Fitzpatrick. (Simon & Schuster, $17.99.) A love story of immortals and ancient battles. (Ages 14 and up)SHIVER, by Maggie Stiefvater. (Scholastic, $8.99.) Love among the lupine. (Ages 13 and up)NERDS (BOOK ONE: NATIONAL ESPIONAGE, RESCUE, AND DEFENSE SOCIETY), by Michael Buckley. (Amulet/Abrams, $6.95.) Stealth is challenging when you wear orthodontic headgear. (Ages 8 to 12)BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. (Little, Brown, $17.99.) A secret wrapped in a Southern Gothic novel. (Ages 12 and up)THE HUNGER GAMES, by Suzanne Collins. (Scholastic, hardcover and paper) In a dystopian society a girl fights for survival on live TV. (Ages 12 and up)DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. (Abrams, hardcover only) The travails of adolescence, in cartoons. (Ages 9 to 12)PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS, by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion, hardcover and paper) Children of the gods battle mythological monsters. (Ages 9 to 12)BLUE BLOODS, by Melissa de la Cruz. (Hyperion, hardcover and paper) Young and privileged vampires are having a blood feud. (Ages 14 and up)THE 39 CLUES, by various authors. (Scholastic, hardcover only) A brother and sister travel the world in search of the key to their family’s power. (Ages 9 to 12)MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES, by Rachel Caine. (NAL Jam, paper only) Vampires in town. (Ages 14 and up)BIG NATE, Lincoln Peirce. (HarperCollins, hardcover; Andrews McMeel, paper) Where Nate goes, trouble is sure to follow. (Ages 8 to 12)THE TWILIGHT SAGA, by Stephenie Meyer. (Megan Tingley/Little, Brown, hardcover and paper) Vampires and werewolves in school. (Ages 12 and up)RANGER’S APPRENTICE, by John Flanagan. (Philomel, hardcover and paper) A boy warrior fights evil. (Ages 9 to 12)HOUSE OF NIGHT, by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. (St. Martin’s, hardcover and paper) Vampires in school. (Ages 14 and up) These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the November 14 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending October 30, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Click here for an explanation of the difference between trade and mass-market paperbacks. Publishers have provided the age designations for their best-selling children's titles.
TBR: Inside the List
SATISFACTION: Keith Richards’s autobiography, “Life” (reviewed by Liz Phair on the cover of the Nov. 14 Book Review), hits the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 1, unsurprisingly. (My favorite line, from Page 524: “I’ve been cooking bangers all my life, and I only just found out from this lady on TV that you have to put bangers in a cold pan.”)
Keith Richards The shots at Mick Jagger have drawn lots of headlines, but it turns out that Sir Mick isn’t the only one who has been slowly sinking into the slough of respectability. In the advance publicity for “Life,” it was revealed that Richards harbored an early ambition to be a librarian, and that he once considered getting “professional training” in the Dewey Decimal System to cope with his home library. His one-stop book tour in the United States began and ended at the New York Public Library, where he arrived wearing a natty beige fedora and trailing a genially sulfurous air. (Somebody get this man a contract for a vampire mash-up novel, stat!) Then again, Richards has a way to go before he catches up to the Stones’ other guitarist. “Spend or Expend,” an exhibition of Ronnie Wood’s paintings and drawings, is currently on view at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, whose director went so far as to compare Wood’s satirical vision to Daumier.
CROSSFIRE: Glenn Beck’s “Broke” charges to No. 2 in its first week on the hardcover nonfiction list, while Jon Stewart’s “Earth (The Book)” drops to No. 3, amid rumors that the “Daily Show” host planned to hold a Rally to Restore Sanity to the Best-Seller List in Times Square. The right certainly seems to have swept the literary midterms, with Condoleezza Rice’s “Extraordinary, Ordinary People” (No. 6); Bill O’Reilly’s “Pinheads and Patriots” (No. 7); and Michael Savage’s “Trickle Up Poverty” (No. 10). Besides Stewart, there are no liberals on the list — unless Stephen Sondheim counts? His “Finishing the Hat” opens at No. 11.
HONK IF YOU’RE WRITING: November is the cruelest month, at least for literary agents bombarded with the fruits of National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. Here’s how it works: Writers — or “Wrimos,” in the official parlance — register at the event’s Web site, turn on the word-count widget and start cranking out about 1,500 words a day, without stopping to wonder if the whole thing stinks. “It’s all about quantity, not quality,” the Web site explains. “The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks and write on the fly.” The Web site features a host of motivational tools, including merit badges, a Procrastination Station that dispenses advice like “Plot while driving” (is that legal?) and a running tally of total wordage pumped out by participants around the world — 191,707,630 words as of this writing, including some 33,030 originating in Pakistan and 23,549 billowing forth from the Isle of Skye. NaNoWriMo’s never-say-edit spirit has attracted plenty of haters, but it has also given birth to at least one bona fide smash best seller: Sara Gruen’s “Water for Elephants,” now No. 23 on the extended trade paperback fiction list.
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Hardcover Nonfiction
This WeekLast WeekWeeks on ListLIFE, by Keith Richards with James Fox. (Little, Brown, $29.99.) The Rolling Stones guitarist’s revealing autobiography is also a portrait of the era when rock ’n’ roll came of age, with the music itself as the book’s core.BROKE, by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe. (Threshold/Mercury Radio Arts, $29.99.) The Fox News host’s plan for fixing the country financially seeks to unite Americans around the concept of shared sacrifice.EARTH (THE BOOK), by Jon Stewart and others. (Grand Central, $27.99.) A visitor’s guide to the human race, presented by "The Daily Show."THE LAST BOY, by Jane Leavy. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.) A biography of the Yankees star Mickey Mantle, who grappled with a wrenching childhood and physical injuries.AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN, VOL. 1, by Mark Twain. (University of California, $34.95.) In his autobiography, published unexpurgated for the first time, Twain is pointedly political and willing to play the angry prophet. ExcerptPINHEADS AND PATRIOTS, by Bill O'Reilly. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $27.99.) The Fox News commentator scrutinizes the meaning of change in the era of Obama.AT HOME, by Bill Bryson. (Doubleday, $28.95.) The evolution of private life as exemplified by the houses we live in.------ FINISH FIRST, by Tucker Max. (Gallery, $25.99.) Stories of bad decisions, debauchery and sexual recklessness.TRICKLE UP POVERTY, by Michael Savage. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) The radio host criticizes Obama’s policies on the borders, the economy and security.FINISHING THE HAT, by Stephen Sondheim. (Knopf, $39.95.) A compilation of Sondheim’s lyrics, with commentary and anecdotes, covering the years 1954 to 1981.WASHINGTON, by Ron Chernow. (Penguin Press, $40.) A biography of the first president.OBAMA'S WARS, by Bob Woodward. (Simon & Schuster, $30.) The inside story of how decisions were made on Afghanistan, on Pakistan and on the fight against terrorism._____ MY DAD SAYS, by Justin Halpern. (It Books/HarperCollins, $15.99.) A coming-of-age memoir organized around the musings, purveyed on Twitter, of the author’s father.THE GRAND DESIGN, by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. (Bantam, $28.) Central questions of philosophy and science, from the author of “A Brief History of Time.”THE ROOTS OF OBAMA'S RAGE, by Dinesh D'Souza (Regnery) OOGY, by Larry Levin (Grand Central) YOU HAD ME AT WOOF, by Julie Klam (Riverhead) FIRST FAMILY, by Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf) HODA, by Hoda Kotb with Jane Lorenzini (Simon & Schuster) GROWING UP LAUGHING, by Marlo Thomas (Hyperion) THE ELEPHANT TO HOLLYWOOD, by Michael Caine (Holt) LATE, LATE AT NIGHT, by Rick Springfield (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster) IS IT JUST ME?, by Whoopi Goldberg (Hyperion) DEWEY'S NINE LIVES, by Vicki Myron with Brett Witter (Dutton) IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT, by Ann Rule (Free Press) THE MIND'S EYE, by Oliver Sacks (Knopf) These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the November 14 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending October 30, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Click here for an explanation of the difference between trade and mass-market paperbacks.
Paperback Business Best Sellers
THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, by Ben Mezrich. (Anchor, $15.95.) How two Harvard undergraduates created Facebook. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to the falling crime rate.THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95.) How and why certain products and ideas become fads.)TOO BIG TO FAIL, by Andrew Ross Sorkin. (Penguin, $18.) The 2008 financial implosion on Wall Street and in Washington, by a New York Times business columnist.THE NO ----- RULE, by Robert I. Sutton. (Business Plus, $14.99.) How to build a civilized workplace and survive one that isn?t. (?) THE BLACK SWAN, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. (Random House, $17.) The hubris of predictions ? and our perpetual surprise when the not-predicted happens. LIAR?S POKER, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $15.95.) Wall Street?s tumultuous 1980s, as witnessed by a young bond trader. FREEFALL, by Joseph E. Stiglitz. (Norton, $16.95.) A Nobel Prize-winning economist criticizes the Obama administration?s eco-nomic policy from the left. PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL, by Dan Ariely. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) The hidden forces that shape our decisions. LORDS OF FINANCE, by Liaquat Ahamed. (Penguin, $18.) How four central bankers pushed the global economy into the Great Depression. Rankings are based on October figures at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount, department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (?) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
Hardcover Advice
BAREFOOT CONTESSA: HOW EASY IS THAT?, by Ina Garten. (Clarkson Potter, $35.) The easiest “Barefoot Contessa” recipes yet aim at delivering flavor while saving time and avoiding stress.DOUBLE DELICIOUS, by Jessica Seinfeld. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $28.99.) Good simple food for complicated lives, with recipes made with fruits, vegetables and whole grains.THE TATTOO CHRONICLES, by Kat Von D with Sandra Bark. (Collins Design/HarperCollins, $29.99.) An illustrated one-year diary from the tattoo artist.DELIVERING HAPPINESS, by Tony Hsieh. (Business Plus, $23.99.) Lessons from business (pizza place, worm farm, Zappos) and life. (†)BOBBY FLAY'S THROWDOWN!, by Bobby Flay with Stephanie Banyas and Miriam Garron. (Clarkson Potter, $27.50.) A companion cookbook from the first seven seasons of the Food Network show.THE POWER, by Rhonda Byrne. (Atria, $23.95.) Living the life of your dreams, from the author of "The Secret."GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2011, edited by Craig Glenday. (Guinness, $28.95.) Tallest, fastest, youngest, most.ZERO REGRETS, by Apolo Ohno with Alan Abrahamson. (Atria, $26.) The Olympic speedskating champion shares his athletic philosophy and discusses his relationship with his father.POWER THOUGHTS, by Joyce Meyer. (FaithWords, $21.99.) A Bible teacher offers 12 strategies for overcoming negative thinking.KEYS TO GOOD COOKING, by Harold McGee. (Penguin Press, $35.) A noted authority on the science of cooking shows how to get the best out of recipes.SWITCH, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (Broadway) THE ESSENTIAL NEW YORK TIMES COOKBOOK, by Amanda Hesser (Norton) AROUND MY FRENCH TABLE, by Dorie Greenspan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) WOMEN FOOD AND GOD, by Geneen Roth (Scribner) These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the November 14 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending October 30, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Click here for an explanation of the difference between trade and mass-market paperbacks.
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