Archive for April, 2009

Best Sellers — 2009-04

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
April 6 — April 12, 2023 20% off list price

Hardcover Fiction

      List Price Our Price
1. LOWBOY John Wray. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25.00 $20.00
2. DON’T CRY Mary Gaitskill. Random House $23.95 $19.16
3. NETHERLAND Joseph O’Neill. Random House $23.95 $19.16
4. BELIEVERSS Zoe Heller. HarperCollins $25.95 $20.76
5. MERCY Toni Morrison. Random House $23.95 $19.16
6. GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Steig Larsson. Random House $24.95 $19.96
7. PIANO TEACHER Janet Lee. Penguin $25.95 $20.76
8. POEM IN YOUR POCKET Elaine Bleakney (editor). Abrams $14.95 $11.96
9. LITTLE BEE Chris Cleave. Simon & Schuster $24.00 $19.20
10. ENDPOINT & OTHER POEMS John Updike. Random House $25.00 $20.00

Hardcover Nonfiction

      List Price Our Price
1. WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING Haruki Murakami. Random House $21.00 $16.80
2. BODY BROKEN Lynne Greenberg. Random House $25.00 $20.00
3. HOUSE OF CARDS William Cohan. Random House $27.95 $22.36
  Store Event April 20th  
4. IN DEFENSE OF FOOD Michael Pollan. Penguin $21.95 $17.56
5. LOST CITY OF Z David Grann. Random House $27.50 $22.00
  Store Event April 6th  
6. CHEEVER Blake Bailey. Random House $35.00 $28.00
7. MY BOOKY WOOK Russell Brand. HarperCollins $25.95 Price $20.76
8. NOTES ON SONTAG Phillip Lopate. Princeton University Press $19.95 $15.96
9. OUTLIERS Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown $27.99 $22.19
10. THE THOREAU YOU DON’T KNOW Robert Sullivan. HarperCollins $25.95 $20.76

Paperback Fiction

      List Price Our Price
1. GERMAN BRIDE Joanna Hershon. Ballantine $14.00 $11.20
2. MEANINGFUL LIFE L.J. Davis. New York Review of Books $14.95 $11.96
  Store Event April 14th  
3. PAINTER FROM SHANGHAI Jennifer Cody Epstein. Norton $14.95 $11.96
4. LUSH LIFE Richard Price. St. Martin’s Press $15.00 $12.00
5. ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG Muriel Barbery. Europa $15.00 $12.00
6. BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO Junot Diaz. Riverhead $14.00 $11.20
7. WATCHMEN Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons. DC Comics $19.99 $15.99
8. WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga. Simon & Schuster $14.00 $11.20
9. FRACTION OF THE WHOLE Steve Toltz. Doubleday $14.95 $11.96
10. OUT STEALING HORSES Per Petterson. St. Martin’s Press $14.00 $11.20

Paperback Nonfiction

      List Price Our Price
1. CITY WEEKENDS Alison Lowenstein. Universe $22.50 $18.00
2. OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA Michael Pollan. Penguin $16.00 $12.80
3. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER Barack Obama. Random House $14.95 $11.96
4. GOMORRAH Roberto Saviano. St. Martin’s Press $15.00 $12.00
5. EAT PRAY LOVE Elizabeth Gilbert. Penguin $15.00 $12.00
6. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING Heidi Murkoff. Workman $14.95 $11.96
7. HOUSE RULES Rachel Sontag. HarperCollins $13.99 $11.19
8. ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT Kurt Vonnegut. Berkley $15.00 $12.00
9. LITTLE HISTORY OF THE WORLD Ernst Gombrich. Yale University Press 12.00 $9.60
10. THE GIFT Lewis Hyde. Random House. $14.95. Our Price $11.96

Children’s Hardcover & Paperback

      List Price Our Price
1. ECLIPSE Stephanie Meyer. Little, Brown $19.99 $15.99
2. TWILIGHT tephanie Meyer. Little, Brown $10.99 $8.79
3. NEW MOON Stephanie Meyer. Little, Brown $10.99 $8.79
4. BREAKING DAWN Stephanie Meyer. Little, Brown $22.99 $18.39
5. SUBWAY Board Book Anastasia Suen. Penguin $6.99 $5.59
6. KNUFFLE BUNNY Mo Willems. Hyperion $15.99 $12.79
7. ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN Sherman Alexie. Little, Brown $8.99 $7.19
8. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID THE LAST STRAW Jeff Kinney. Abramsv$12.95 $10.36
9. I LIVE IN BROOKLYN Mari Takabayashi. Houghton Mifflin $16.00 $12.80
10. NAKED MOLE RAT GETS DRESSED Mo Willems. Hyperionv$16.99 $13.59

Listings are based on sales figures compiled by BookCourt for the one-week period ending
2009-04-05. Sales generated by school and other special sales are not included.