Rowan County Bestsellers
Editor’s note: Literary Bookpost is providing a list of local bestsellers to the Post. The rest of the list comes from the Independent Booksellers group.
Literary Bookpost
1. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown.
2. Something for the Pain: One Doctor’s Account of Life and Death in the ER, by Paul Austin.
3. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett.
4. An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon.
5. True Compass: A Memoir, Edward Kennedy.
6. South of Broad, by by Pat Conroy.
7. The Real Warnings, Rhett Iseman Trull.
8. The Last Child, John Hart.
9. Say You’re One of Them, Uwem Akpan.
10. The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood.
11. Nurtureshock: New Thinking about Children, by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman.
12. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery.
Indie Bound bestsellers
Fiction
1. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown.
2. An Echo in the Bone, by Diana Gabaldon.
3. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett.
4. South of Broad, by Pat Conroy.
5. The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood.
6. A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore.
7. The Girl Who Played With Fire, byStieg Larsson.
8. Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow.
9. The Last Song, byNicholas Sparks.
10. That Old Cape Magic, by Richard Russo.
Nonfiction
1. True Compass, by Edward M. Kennedy.
2. Where Men Win Glory, by Jon Krakauer.
3. Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government, by Glenn Beck.
4. Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I, by Julia Child.
5. The Case for God, by Karen Armstrong.
6. Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder.
7. The Healing of America, by T.R. Reid.
8. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell.
9. Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall.
10. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, by Richard Dawkins.