New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

New York Times Notable Books

The New York Times selects 100 Notable Books of 2010.

Teen Reads

From NPR, The Year's Best Teen Reads.

Best Children's Illustrated Books

From the New York Times, Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2010.

National Book Awards

The National Book Foundation announced the winners of the 2010 National Book Awards last night. 

Another Best Of List

The Atlantic magazine selects its Books of the Year 2010.  The 15 runners up are listed here.

December Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy
The Outlaws by W.E.B. Griffin
Dead Zero by Stephen Hunter
In Too Deep by Jayne Ann Krentz
Half-Past Dawn by Richard Doetsch
Barefoot Contessa: How Easy Is That?: Fabulous Recipes & Easy Tips by Ina Garten
The Radleys by Matt Haig
Naked Cruelty by Colleen McCullough
What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.  Debuting at the top of the fiction list is Towers of Midnight--Book 13 in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

Indie Next

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the November Indie Next list.

Book TV

Here are some of highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Decision Points by George W. Bush
Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America by Dana Milbank
Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards by P.J. O'Rourke
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier

More Best Books of 2010

Publishers Weekly and Library Journal have made their selections for the best of 2010:

Publishers Weekly Top 100 Books 
Library Journal Top 10 Best Books

As is usually the case with these end-of-year lists, several titles overlap.  The following three books are in the Publishers Weekly and Library Journal top 10, as well as the Amazon Best of 2010 top 10:

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Amazon's Best of 2010

It's time for the year-end Best Of lists!  Amazon just released it's Top 100 Editor's Picks and Top 100 Customer Favorites.  They've also broken the list down by category:

Top 10 Books: Literature & Fiction
Top 10 Books: Science
Top 10 Books: Cookbooks
Top 10 Books: Children's Picture Books

When TV Characters Become Authors

From the Onion A.V. Club, 30-Plus Actual Books Written by Fictional TV Characters.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.  John Grisham takes the top fiction spot with his new book The Confession.  The nonfiction top spot is shared by two new books:  Keith Richards's Life and Glenn Beck's Broke.

Books for the Comic

From NPR, Three Books for the Contemplative Comic.

November Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Pitchforks and Torches: The Worst of the Worst, from Beck, Bill, and Bush to Palin and Other Posturing Republicans by Keith Olbermann
Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb
My Reading Life by Pat Conroy
Edge by Jeffrey Deaver
Hell's Corner by David Baldacci
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor by Lisa Kleypas
Distant Hours by Kate Morton
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
Decision Points by George W. Bush
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
Cross Fire by James Patterson
Crescent Dawn by Clive Cussler
Unbroken: A World War II Airman's Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
The Athena Project by Brad Thor
The Emperor's Tomb by Steve Berry

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.  Two new titles are at the top of the Fiction list this week:  Worth Dying for by Lee Child and In the Company of Others by Jan Karon.