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, Dec 10, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for Week Ending December 6
what's hot in local bookstores
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Too Much Happiness
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Alice Munro
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Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009
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, Dec 2, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for Week Ending November 29
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by Jerome Ludwig
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Gate at the Stairs
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Her Fearful Symmetry
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Audrey Niffenegger
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Wolf Hall
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SuperFreakonomics
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Going Rogue
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Open
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The Case for God
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Karen Armstrong
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You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
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Augusten Burroughs
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The Piano Teacher
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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
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Michael Lewis
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Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
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Julie Powell
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I Am America (And So Can You!)
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Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
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, Nov 17, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for Week Ending November 15
What's hot in local bookstores
by Jerome Ludwig
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The Lacuna
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Barbara Kingsolver
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The Help
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Her Fearful Symmetry
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Wolf Hall
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Hilary Mantel
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The Year of the Flood
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Margaret Atwood
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Superfreakonomics
,
Steven Levitt
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Stephen Dubner
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The Audacity to Win
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David Plouffe
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Eating Animals
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Jonathan Safran Foer
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You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
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Augusten Burroughs
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Zeitoun
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Dave Eggers
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Olive Kitteridge
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Elizabeth Strout
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Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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Stieg Larsson
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Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
,
Mary Ann Shaffer
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Annie Barrows
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Precious
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Sapphire
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Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Muriel Barbery
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More Information Than You Require
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John Hodgman
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Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
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Al Gore
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My Life in France
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, Sep 23, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for the Week Ending September 20
List courtesy of Carl Lennertz at HarperCollins, as gathered from Anderson's Bookshop, the Book Cellar, the Book Stall at Chestnut Court, the Book Table, 57th Street Books, Lake Forest Books, Read Between the Lynes, and Women & Children First.
by Jerome Ludwig
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The Lost Symbol
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Dan Brown
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Homer & Langley
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E.L. Doctorow
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The Gate at the Stairs
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Lorrie Moore
,
The White Queen
,
Philippa Gregory
,
The Help
,
Katherine Stockett
,
True Compass
,
Edward M. Kennedy
,
Strength in What Remains
,
Tracy Kidder
,
Zeitoun
,
Dave Eggers
,
Bad Mother
,
Ayelet Waldman
,
Olive Kitteridge
,
Elizabeth Strout
,
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
,
Stieg Larsson
,
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
,
Mary Ann Shaffer
,
Annie Barrows
,
Elegance of the Hedgehog
,
Muriel Barbery
,
Dragon House
,
John Shors
,
My Life in France
,
Julia Child
,
In Defense of Food
,
Michael Pollan
,
Freakonomics
,
Steven D. Levitt
,
Stephen J. Dubner
,
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
,
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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David Sedaris
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Chicago: A Biography
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Dominic A. Pacyga
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, Sep 16, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for Week Ending September 13
What books arehot in Chicago this week, culled from the lists of various local booksellers.
by Jerome Ludwig
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Media
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Lit & Lectures
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News
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The Help
,
Kathryn Stockett
,
A Gate at the Stairs
,
Lorrie Moore
,
Homer & Langley
,
E.L. Doctorow
,
South of Broad
,
Pat Conroy
,
White Queen
,
Philippa Gregory
,
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
,
Julia Child
,
Zeitoun
,
Dave Eggers
,
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe
,
Superathletes
,
and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
,
Christopher McDougall
,
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq
,
2006-2008
,
Thomas E. Ricks
,
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
,
Nicholas D. Kristof
,
Sheryl WuDunn
,
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
,
Stieg Larsson
,
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
,
Mary Ann Shaffer
,
Annie Barrows
,
The Time Traveler's Wife
,
Audrey Niffenegger
,
Her Fearful Symmetry
,
Olive Kitteridge
,
Elizabeth Strout
,
Sarah's Key
,
Tatiana de Rosnay
,
Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct
,
P.M. Forni
,
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
,
by Azar Nafisi
,
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
,
Steven D. Levitt
,
Stephen J. Dubner
,
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
,
Julie Powell
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, Sep 9, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for the Week Ending September 6
by Jerome Ludwig
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News
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Books
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Homer & Langley
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E.L. Doctorow
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The Help
,
Kathryn Stockett
,
A Gate at the Stairs
,
Lorrie Moore
,
South of Broad
,
Pat Conroy
,
The Women
,
T.C. Boyle
,
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
,
Julia Child
,
Zeitoun
,
Dave Eggers
,
Grand Illusion
,
Theresa Amato
,
Born to Run
,
Christopher McDougall
,
Cahokia
,
Timothy R. Pauketat
,
Elegance of the Hedgehog
,
Muriel Barbery
,
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
,
Stieg Larsson
,
Time Traveler's Wife
,
Audrey Niffenegger
,
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
,
Mary Ann Shaffer
,
Annie Barrows
,
Shack
,
William Paul Young
,
My Life in France
,
In Defense of Food
,
Michael Pollan
,
Devil in the White City
,
Erik Larson
,
Cults Conspiracies and Secret Socieities
,
Arthur Goldwag
,
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
,
Haruki Murakami
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, Aug 26, 2009
Chicago Best Seller List for Week Ending August 23
by Jerome Ludwig
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Books
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett
,
That Old Cape Magic
,
Richard Russo
,
Writers on the Record
,
South of Broad
,
Pat Conroy
,
Girl Who Played With Fire
,
Stieg Larsson
,
White Queen
,
Phillippa Gregory
,
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
,
Julia Child
,
Zeitoun
,
Dave Eggers
,
Outliers
,
Malcom Gladwell
,
Cahokia
,
Timothy Pauketat
,
I'm Down
,
Mishna Wolff
,
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
,
Time Traveler's Wife
,
Audrey Niffenegger
,
Mercy
,
Toni Morrison
,
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
,
Mary Ann Shaffer
,
Annie Barrows
,
Olive Kitteridge
,
Elizabeth Strout
,
My Life in France
,
Julie & Julia
,
Julie Powell
,
Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
,
Jeff Sharlet
,
Julia's Kitchen Wisdom
,
Tunnel and the Light
,
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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, Aug 21, 2009
Chicago Best Seller List for the week ending August 16
by Jerome Ludwig
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Books
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South of Broad
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Pat Conroy
,
the Help
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Kathryn Stockett
,
That Old Cape Magic
,
Richard Russo
,
Girl Who Played With Fire
,
Stieg Larsson
,
Inherent Vice
,
Thomas Pynchon
,
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
,
Julia Child
,
Outliers
,
Malcolm Gladwell
,
Fergie
,
Ferguson Jenkins
,
Slippery Year
,
Melanie Gideon
,
Zeitoun
,
Dave Eggers
,
Olive Kitteridge
,
Elizabeth Strout
,
Time Traveler's Wife
,
Audrey Niffenegger
,
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
,
Mary Ann Shaffer
,
Annie Barrows
,
Elegance of the Hedgehog
,
Muriel Barbery
,
My Life in France
,
Julie and Julia
,
Julie Powell
,
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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David Sedaris
,
Three Cups of Tea
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Greg Mortenson
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48 Laws of Power
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Robert Greene
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, Aug 14, 2009
Chicago Best Seller List for the week ending August 9
by Jerome Ludwig
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Books
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The Girl Who Played With Fire
,
Stieg Larsson
,
The Help
,
Kathryn Stockett
,
That Old Cape Magic
,
Richard Russo
,
Inherent Vice
,
Thomas Pynchon
,
The Amateurs
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Marcus Sakey
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Writers on the Record
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Outliers
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Malcom Gladwell
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Zeitoun
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Dave Eggers
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Ferguson Jenkins
,
Dancing to the Precipice
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Caroline Moorhead
,
Catastrophe
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Dick Morris
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Olive Kitteridge
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Elizabeth Strout
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Audrey Niffenegger
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The Time Traveler's Wife
,
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
,
Mary Ann Shaffer
,
Annie Burrows
,
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Muriel Barbery
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Julie & Julia
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My Life in France
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Three Cups of Tea
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Julia Child
,
Julie Powell
,
Greg Mortenson
,
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
,
David Sedaris
,
Ask Me About My Divorce
,
Women Open Up About Moving On
,
Candace Walsh
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