Book Buzz From USA TODAY
By Press Release - May 27 , 2009
McLEAN, VA – Here’s the latest book buzz from USA TODAY with a sneak peek at the highlights of tomorrow’s Best-Selling Books list:
Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper vaults to No. 6 on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list this week thanks to the movie version opening June 26. Released May 19, the movie tie-in edition has almost 350,000 copies in print. The heartbreaker about a family coping with a leukemia-stricken child has logged 186 weeks in the top 150 since its 2004 debut but has never cracked the top 20 before.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows looks poised to be one of the big paperbacks of summer. The epistolary novel about the Nazi occupation of the English island of Guernsey, released in paper on May 5, moves up to No. 10 on the list, with 500,000 copies in print. The hardcover was a sleeper hit, peaking at No. 34 last August.
For all the news from this week’s Best-Selling Books list, see Thursday’s editions of USA TODAY for the top 50 books or log onto www.top150.usatoday.com for the complete list of 150 best-selling books from last week.
USA TODAY’s list differs from other lists because the rankings are based solely on retail sales data from major chain and independent bookstores across the USA. Included are more than one million volumes from approximately 3,000 large-inventory, diverse-content bookstores. USA TODAY’s list shows readers what is selling across the whole range of books, not just what is selling by category. Hardcover, paperback, fiction and non-fiction are pooled together. USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list has been published each Thursday in the newspaper’s Life section since October 28, 1993.
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