Books Inc. hardcover best-seller list
- Lean In: Women, Work, And The Will To Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg
- Inferno: A Novel, by Dan Brown
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, by David Sedaris
- Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter
- City of Thieves: A Novel, by Davis Benioff
- It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great, by Gwyneth Paltrow
- Istanbul Passage: A Novel, by Joseph Kanon
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A Novel, by Maria Semple
- Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe 1944-1945, by Rick Atkinson
STAFF PICKS FOR ADULTS
All That Is
by James Salter
This is a novel to be savored and pondered from start to finish; one of the most emotional novels I have ever read. In a series of vignettes, Salter can summon up the intensity of a young man’s sexual desire to midlife maturity’s need to find what life is all about. But truly, there is much, much more to this novel; it’s a brilliant, entrancing work of art!
— B. Dito
The People of Forever are Not Afraid: A Novel
by Shani Boianjiu
Never has a book tested my nerves, my emotions, or my heart so much. Required!
— E. Freeman
Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon
by Matt Fraction, David Aja and Javier Pulido
Beautiful artwork and hilarious writing! Hawkeye is on a break from the Avengers but now must contend with mysterious damsels in distress and fishing stray arrows from his neighbor’s satellite dish.
— C. Lutes
STAFF PICKS FOR AGES 14–17
This is What Happy Looks Like
by Jennifer E. Smith
A teen idol! Fateful e-mails! A tiny summer-vacation town in Maine! Love! A pet pig! Political scandal! This book has it all.
— E. Freeman
STAFF PICKS FOR AGES 4–8
Oliver
by Birgitta Sif
I love this story about a boy who likes to spend his time alone. As a shy young lady, a story like this would have really spoken to me when I was a girl. Though Oliver likes to be by himself, one day he sets out on an adventure that changes everything about how he sees the world.
— E. Freeman