Hardcover. for the week ending 11/13/2016 NONFICTION FICTION. Midwest Connections Pick

Transcription

1 Indie Midwest Bestsellers Indie Bestsellers Hardcover FICTION 1. The Whistler John Grisham, Doubleday, $ Night School Lee Child, Delacorte, $ Commonwealth Ann Patchett, Harper, $ The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $ Small Great Things Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $ The Nix Nathan Hill, Knopf, $ The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories P.D. James, Knopf, $24 8. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer: A Novella Fredrik Backman, Atria, $18 9. The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $ A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $ Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $ All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $ The Secret History of Twin Peaks: A Novel Mark Frost, Flatiron, $ Precious and Grace Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $ Two by Two Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $27 NONFICTION 1. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance, Harper, $ Upstream Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $26 3. A Life Well Played Arnold Palmer, St. Martin s, $ Hero of the Empire Candice Millard, Doubleday, $30 5. The Magnolia Story Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines, Thomas Nelson, $ Cooking for Jeffrey Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35 7. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $ Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right Arlie Russell Hochschild, The New Press, $ Appetites Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $ Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer, et al., Workman, $ Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $ Being Mortal Atul Gawande, Metropolitan, $ The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $ Becoming Wise Krista Tippett, Penguin Press, $ My Own Words Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $30 Valente s beautiful, elegiac novel about a community in mourning, and the unseen forces that unravel and consume us after a tragedy, is a work of heartbreaking timeliness. J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest A fantastic novel about love, betrayal, politics and pop culture as good as the best Michael Chabon or Jonathan Franzen. People

2 Paperback FICTION 1. A Man Called Ove 2. The Sellout Paul Beatty, Picador USA, $16 3. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16 4. The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $16 5. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She s Sorry 6. My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $16 7. Circling the Sun Paula McLain, Ballantine, $16 8. Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $ In a Dark, Dark Wood Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $ Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh, Penguin, $ Kitchens of the Great Midwest J.Ryan Stradal, Penguin, $ The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Katarina Bivald, Sourcebooks Landmark, $ The Bookshop on the Corner Jenny Colgan, Morrow, $ Fates and Furies Lauren Groff, Riverhead, $16 NONFICTION 1. Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20 2. The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander, The New Press, $ Roughneck Grace Michael Perry, WI Historical Society Press, $ H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, $16 5. Big Magic Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead, $16 6. Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16 7. The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17 8. A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota Sun Yung Shin (Ed.), Minnesota Historical Society Press, $ The Road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson, Anchor, $ Yuge! G.B. Trudeau, Andrews McMeel, $ Bad Feminist Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial, $ The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg, Random House, $ The Sea Is Quiet Tonight: A Memoir Michael H. Ward, Querelle Press, $ Citizen Claudia Rankine, Graywolf, $ Chill the F*ck Out: A Swear Word Coloring Book Hannah Caner, St. Martin s Griffin, $9.99 Mass Market George Orwell, Signet, $ Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck, Penguin, $11 3. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $ Macbeth William Shakespeare, Washington Square Press, $ The Eye of the World Robert Jordan, Tor, $ To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, Grand Central, $ Hiroshima John Hersey, Vintage, $ The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X, Ballantine, $ The Martian Andy Weir, Broadway, $ The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $9.99 An enjoyable and thought-provoking exploration of a modern-day marriage in midlife crisis. Kirkus Reviews

3 Children s ILLUSTRATED 1. Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $ We Found a Hat Jon Klassen, Candlewick Press, $ Ada Twist, Scientist Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams Books for Young Readers, $ Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak, Harper, $ Baby Reindeer Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle, $ Mother Bruce Ryan T. Higgins, Disney/Hyperion, $ Hotel Bruce Ryan T. Higgins, Disney/Hyperion, $ Mama and Baby! Kaaren Pixton, Workman, $ A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Charles M. Schulz, Simon Spotlight, $ A is for Activist Innosanto Nagara, Triangle Square, $9.99 YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE 1. The Secret Keepers Trenton Lee Stewart, Diana Sudyka (Illus.), Little Brown, $ Heartless Marissa Meyer, Feiwel & Friends, $ Wonder R.J. Palacio, Knopf, $ Ghosts Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $ The Girl Who Drank the Moon Kelly Barnhill, Algonquin Young Readers, $ Dog Man Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $ One North Star: A Counting Book Phyllis Root, Beckie Prange (Illus.), University of Minnesota Press, $ Things to Do with Lego Bricks Simon Hugo, DK Publishing, $ Raymie Nightingale Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $ Drama Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99 Children s Series Titles 1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The Illustrated Edition J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay (Illus.), Arthur A. Levine Books, $ Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One & Two J.K. Rowling, et al., Arthur A. Levine Books, $ The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 2) Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $ Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine s Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer s Stone J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $ The Thank You Book (Elephant & Piggie) Mo Willems, Disney/Hyperion, $ Dory and the Real True Friend (Dory Fantasmagory, Book 2) Abby Hanlon, Puffin, $ The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1) Chris Colfer, Little Brown, $ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer s Stone: The Illustrated Edition (2015) J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay (Illus.), Arthur A. Levine Books, $39.99 This is an engaging debut picture book [that] will appeal to a wide age range. Here s hoping for more adventures with Magnolia! School Library Journal Root has created a rural landscape in watercolor-and-gouache paintings in a palette of avocado and ochre that captures a feeling of heat and stillness A bucolic story with more adult than child appeal. Kirkus Reviews

4 Fiction HARDCOVER 1. The Whistler John Grisham, Doubleday, $ Night School Lee Child, Delacorte, $ Commonwealth Ann Patchett, Harper, $ The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $ Small Great Things Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $ The Nix Nathan Hill, Knopf, $ The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories P.D. James, Knopf, $24 8. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer: A Novella Fredrik Backman, Atria, $18 9. The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $ A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $ Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $ All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $ The Secret History of Twin Peaks: A Novel Mark Frost, Flatiron, $ Precious and Grace Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $ Two by Two Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $27 PAPERBACK 1. A Man Called Ove 2. The Sellout Paul Beatty, Picador USA, $16 3. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16 4. The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $16 5. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She s Sorry 6. My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $16 7. Circling the Sun Paula McLain, Ballantine, $16 8. Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $ In a Dark, Dark Wood Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $ Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh, Penguin, $ Kitchens of the Great Midwest J.Ryan Stradal, Penguin, $ The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Katarina Bivald, Sourcebooks Landmark, $ The Bookshop on the Corner Jenny Colgan, Morrow, $ Fates and Furies Lauren Groff, Riverhead, $16 Agee s emotionally rich tale is as wild and sprawling as the Midwestern plains... The story s several parts gritty Western, family saga, mystery work together for a memorable tale of heartbreak and redemption. Publishers Weekly [A] stellar debut. Filled with charming pop-culture references, this deft caper novel is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and poignant. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

5 Nonfiction HARDCOVER PAPERBACK 1. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance, Harper, $ Upstream Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $26 3. A Life Well Played Arnold Palmer, St. Martin s, $ Hero of the Empire Candice Millard, Doubleday, $30 5. The Magnolia Story Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines, Thomas Nelson, $ Cooking for Jeffrey Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35 7. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $ Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right Arlie Russell Hochschild, The New Press, $ Appetites Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $ Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer, et al., Workman, $ Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $ Being Mortal Atul Gawande, Metropolitan, $ The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $ Becoming Wise Krista Tippett, Penguin Press, $ My Own Words Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $30 1. Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20 2. The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander, The New Press, $ Roughneck Grace Michael Perry, WI Historical Society Press, $ H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, $16 5. Big Magic Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead, $16 6. Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16 7. The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17 8. A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota Sun Yung Shin (Ed.), Minnesota Historical Society Press, $ The Road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson, Anchor, $ Yuge! G.B. Trudeau, Andrews McMeel, $ Bad Feminist Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial, $ The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg, Random House, $ The Sea Is Quiet Tonight: A Memoir Michael H. Ward, Querelle Press, $ Citizen Claudia Rankine, Graywolf, $ Chill the F*ck Out: A Swear Word Coloring Book Hannah Caner, St. Martin s Griffin, $9.99 Mass Market George Orwell, Signet, $ Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck, Penguin, $11 3. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $ Macbeth William Shakespeare, Washington Square Press, $ The Eye of the World Robert Jordan, Tor, $ To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, Grand Central, $ Hiroshima John Hersey, Vintage, $ The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X, Ballantine, $ The Martian Andy Weir, Broadway, $ The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $9.99 Yang s evocative, often moving memoir... reveals a life of struggle, hardship, deep love, and strong family ties. --Kirkus Review