October 03, 2005
New Bestsellers 10/3/05
The following books are appearing on the best seller lists for the first time this week. This listing also includes last weeks new books. For a complete listing see our collection of Best Seller Lists.
The Publisher's Weekly audio fiction and nonfiction lists have been updated for October 2005.
E = Essence Magazine
NYT = New York Times
PW = Publisher's Weekly
USA = USA Today
WSJ = Wall Street Journal
Fiction
E.L. Doctorow. The March
In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant. (NYT #4, PW #3, WSJ #5)
Neil Gaiman. Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. (NYT #1, PW #1, USA #11, WSJ #4)
Walter Mosley. Cinnamon Kiss
Walter Mosley's sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest challenge ever--a terrifying murder during the Summer of Love. (PW #15)
SHALIMAR THE CLOWN, by Salman Rushdie. (Random House, $25.95.) A former American ambassador to India is murdered by his Kashmiri Muslim driver. (NYT #13)
Alexander McCall Smith. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's best-selling new detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, gets caught up in an affair of the heart--this one a transplant. (NYT #11, PW #11, WSJ #14)
Zadie Smith. On Beauty
Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant look at family life, marriage, the collision of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's self-deceptions. It is also, as you might expect, very funny indeed. (NYT #5, PW #9, WSJ #12)
Jennifer Weiner. Goodnight Nobody
The story of a young mother's move to a postcard-perfect Connecticut town and the secrets she uncovers there. (NYT #2, PW #2, USA #10, WSJ #2)
Nonfiction
Alan Alda. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed , filled with curiosity about nature, good humor, and honesty, is the crowning achievement of an actor, author, and director, but surprisingly, it is the story of a life more filled with turbulence and laughter than any Alda has ever played on the stage or screen. (NYT #7, PW #7, WSJ #8)
James Frey. A Million Little Pieces
When he entered a residential treatment center at the age of twenty-three, James Frey had destroyed his body and his mind almost beyond repair. He faced a stark choice: accept that he wasn't going to see twenty-four or step into the fallout of his smoking wreck of a life and take drastic action. Surrounded by patients as troubled as he - including a judge, a mobster, a former world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute - and a droning dogma of How to Recover, Frey had to fight to find his own way to confront the consequences of the life he had lived so far, and to determine what future, if any, he holds.(USA #1)
NYT Business
Neal Boortz & John Linder. The FairTax Book
Then the FairTax is for you. In the face of the outlandish American tax burden, talk-radio firebrand Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder are leading the charge to phase out our current, unfair system and enact the FairTax Plan, replacing the federal income tax and withholding system with a simple 23 percent retail sales tax on new goods and services. (#3) [Has been on the bestseller lists, but we have now added it to the catalog]
Barbara Ehrenreich. Bait and Switch
Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible resume of a professional "in transition" she attempts to land a middle-class job--undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then trawling a series of EST-like boot camps, job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She gets an image makeover, works to project a winning attitude, yet is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and--again and again--rejected. (#4)
Posted by Grace at October 3, 2005 03:51 PM
