Feb
20
2010
This Week’s Bestsellers
At last, a reprieve. This week saw the addition of just a single book to the list of bestsellers. James S. Hirsch’s biography of Willie Mays (titled, none too imaginatively Willie Mays) hit the list in the #8 spot. It’s a long book, though, so it may take much of the week to get through it’s 600+ pages. And I’m still only a quarter of the way through Hank Paulson’s book On the Brink. And I still haven’t read Anticancer. So even with this one-week reprieve I’m not sure that I’ll be able to catch up all the way. But I can give it a try.
Of note is the fact that Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw has ended its run in the top fifteen. Also, Mitch Albom’s Have a Little Faith and Gladwell’s Outliers have both started to falter. Since both have been long-time fixtures on the list, the end of their run may introduce a little bit of instability for a while. All of which is to say that I’d better catch up while I can. Something will have to fill the eventual void when those books drop off the list.
Rising fast toward the top fifteen is Lori Gottlieb’s Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough. That sounds like an intriguing title. Perhaps it will be on the list for next week.