Best-sellers Books Top 10

AP ^ | September 25, 2008 | AP

[Berlin_Freeper]

Best-sellers Books Top 10

[Tublecane]

We’d probably be better off right now if there were any economic books, aside from Thomas Friedman’s, on the list.

[Krankor]

I know it's an old book, but anyone here ever read "I, Claudius". Is it any good?

[Hans]

The very best thing Robert Graves wrote and a wonderful
book. As as aside it was made into a fine BBC series,
20 hrs or so, available on DVD.

[Pinkbell]

Bookmarking this for myself so I can read the list later

[scottdeus12]

Best-sellers Books Top 10
2 hours ago
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
2. “The Other Queen” by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone)
3. “Faefever” by Karen Marie Moning (Delacorte)
4. “The Host” by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
5. “The Book of Lies” by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central)
6. “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial)
7. “American Wife” by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House)
8. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
9. “Anathem” by Neal Stephenson (Morrow)
10. “Star Wars Order 66” by Karen Traviss (Del Rey)
NONFICTION/GENERAL
1. “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)
2. “Hot, Flat and Crowded” by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
3. “The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008” by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)
4. “Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness” by Suzanne Somers (Crown)
5. “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)
6. “Stori Telling” by Tori Spelling (Simon Spotlight)
7. “Real Life” by Dr. Phil McGraw (Free Press)
8. “Through the Storm” by Lynne Spears with Lorilee Craker (Thomas Nelson)
9. “Guinness World Records 2009” by Guinness (Guinnes Publishing)
10. “The Limits of Power” by Andrew J. Bacevich (Metropolitan Books)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. “Nights in Rodanthe” by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)
2. “Book of the Dead” by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)
3. “Dead Until Dark” by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
4. “Stone Cold” by David Baldacci (Vision)
5. “Protect and Defend” by Vince Flynn (Pocket)
6. “Compulsion” by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)
7. “Playing for Pizza” by John Grisham (Dell)
8. “8 Sandpiper Way” by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
9. “Sweet Revenge” by Diane Mott Davidson (Avon)
10. “You’ve Been Warned” by James Patterson, Howard Roughan (Vision)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. “The Shack” by William P. Young (Windblown Media)
2. “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
3. “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
4. “Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down” by Kaylene Johnson (Tyndale House Publishers)
5. “Skinny B——” by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (Running Press)
6. “The Choice” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
7. “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle (Plume)
8. “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)
9. “Barefoot” by Elin Hilderbrand (Back Bay Books)
10. “Change Your Brain Change Your Life” by Daniel G. Amen, M.D. (Three Rivers)

[Pietro]

"I, Claudius"

Excellent book!!1

Everything Robert Graves wrote is good but the two Claudius novels are right up there.

[MamaB]

There are very few books on those lists that I would be interested in reading. Otherwise, think I will stick to William W. Johnstone.

[Krankor]

Thanks for the reviews. I have a 30% coupon from Borders I want to use tomorrow and I was looking for a good book to buy.
I’ve heard good things about this book, but since it was published in 1934, I was worried it might be a bit dated. Thanks again.

[Verginius Rufus]

Something a little shorter than I, Claudius:

The Persian Version, by Robert Graves

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

As for the Greek theatrical tradition
Which represents that summer's expedition

Not as a mere reconnaissance in force
By three brigades of foot and one of horse

(Their left flank covered by some obsolete
Light craft detached from the main Persian fleet)

But as a grandiose, ill-starred attempt
To conquer Greece--they treat it with contempt;

And only incidentally refute
Major Greek claims, by stressing what repute

The Persian monarch and the Persian nation
Won by this salutary demonstration:

Despite a strong defence and adverse weather
All arms combined magnificently together.