From paperbacks to a waste of paper, hardcovers to hard-to-believe-it-was-even-published, and non-fiction full of fictitiousness to fiction that’s real in somebody’s world, the bestseller list has them all! Sometimes you just have to read between the lines.
Fiction
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest: Anaphylactic Shock and You, by Stieg Larsson
61 Hours: Staring at a Clock for Two and a Half Days Rendered me Incapable of Coming Up with a Better Title, by Lee Child
The Burning Wire: Electricity is Not Our Friend, by Jeffery Deaver
Heart of the Matter: Cardiovascular Anecdotes, by Emily Giffin
The 9TH Judgment: The First 8 Were No Good, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Blockade Billy and His Construction Crew Band, by Stephen King
The Imperfectionists, Procrastinators and Other Lazy Types, by Tom Rachman
My Name is Memory, My Middle Name is Loss, by Ann Brashares
Lover Mine, Get Her Shaft, by J. R. Ward
The Double Comfort Safari Club: African Quiltmakers, by Alexander McCall Smith
Tell-All and Other Ethics Violations That Sell Books, by Chuck Palahniuk
The Shadow of Your Smile: Nightmares of Orthodontia, by Mary Higgins Clark
The Scent of Rain and Lightning is Only Smelled Once, by Nancy Pickard
Supreme Justice Would Make a Great Name for a Sandwich, by Phillip Margolin
Little Bee, Big Shoe, by Chris Cleave
South of Broad, North of the Free Clinic, by Pat Conroy
The Forgotten Garden: Sponsored by Roundup Weed Killer, by Kate Morton
The Last Child, “Thank God,” said the Parents of Seven, by John Hart
Let the Great World Spin: Vertigo and There You Are, by Colum McCann
The Doomsday Key to a Door You Shouldn’t Touch, Ever!, by James Rollins
The Darkest Passion is Often Bottled and Comes with a Warning Label, by Gena Showalter
Skin Trade: When Two People Exchange Looks, by Laurell K. Hamilton
The House on Olive Street Comes With Salad, by Robyn Carr
Magic Bleeds When the Trick Fails, by Ilona Andrews
Blown Away: When the Winds of Change is Your Best Travel Agent, by Sharon Sala
Over the Edge: Crying Over Spilt Milk on Your New Carpet, by Jonathan Kellerman
Non-Fiction
Spoken From the Heart: It’s a Gusher, by Laura Bush
To Save America I Should Stop Writing About it, by Newt Gingrich with Joe DeSantis
Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, But for Cryin’ Out Loud Do it Over There!, by Daniel G. Amen
Operation Mincemeat: Pies Like Us, by Ben Macintyre
Chords of Strength: Piano Wire and Basic Home & Auto Repair, by David Archuleta with Monica Haim
Rush Limbaugh (An Army of One is Easy to Conquer), by Zev Chafets
Somewhere Inside: When Sex Games Go Awry, by Laura Ling and Lisa Ling
The Glass Castle Holds my Stone Collection, by Jeannette Walls
Advice
Women, Food and God Help Me When I Can’t Find the Chocolate, by Geneen Roth
Switch To Decaf, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Life is What You Make It, Said the Lemons, by Peter Buffett
If You’re Not First You’re Last, If You’re Not With Us You’re Against Us: Extremism and You and You, But Not You or You, by Grant Cardone
This is Why You’re Fat (and How to Get Thin Forever): Yet Another Way to Kill Time Instead of Burning More Calories Than You Consume, by Jackie Warner
Heroes for my Son (Not You, Tiger), by Brad Meltzer
Business
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working So Let’s Quit and Go Play, by Tony Schwartz with Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy
13 Bankers Sitting in a Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
Rework and Other Words to Use to Distract Attention From Your Mistakes, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
The End of Wall Street: Where Bankers Fear to Tread, by Roger Lowenstein
Too Big to Fail or Move or Get Your Own Breakfast or Breathe or Live Much Longer, by Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Black Swan: British Petroleum’s New Logo, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Children’s Books
Star Wars: When Constellations Just Won’t Get Along, by Rufus Butler Seder
Ladybug Girl at the Beach, Dung Beetle Boy in the Meadow, by David Soman and Jacky Davis
Marley and the Kittens: An Animal Shelter Breakout, by John Grogan
Shark Vs. Train: A Fish Out of Water, by Chris Barton
The Quiet Book: Made of Cloth and Feathers, by Deborah Underwood
Catching Fire and Other Things That Happen to Unsupervised Children, by Suzanne Collins
Spells and Grammars: Unchecked, by Aprilynne Pike
Pinkalicious and the Pink Drink: Kool-Aid for Generation Y, by Victoria Kann