What’s New on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books List

By Press Release - Oct 28 , 2009

McLEAN, VA, October 28, 2009 — Here’s the latest book buzz from USA TODAY with a highlight of tomorrow’s Best-Selling Books list:

• Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has long been a history buff. It’s paying off. His newest novel, To Try Men’s Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom, written with historian William Forstchen, enters USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list at No. 27. The novel focuses on three men involved in the founding of America and follows best-selling series on the Civil War and WWII.

• Readers can’t get enough of the Tudors. Wolf Hall, the Man Booker-prize winning novel by Hilary Mantel published Oct. 13 in the USA, enters the list at No. 49, impressive for a serious novel by a little-known writer. But then the topic of Henry VIII’s love life is near and dear to American hearts, thanks to Philippa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl and the TV series The Tudors.

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.

Rankings for USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books List are based on retail sales data collected each week that include more than 2.5 million books from about 7,000 independent, chain, discount and online stores. USA TODAY’s list ranks titles regardless of genre or format, providing one of the best assessments of which books are most popular among readers and consumers each week. USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list has been published each Thursday in the newspaper’s Life section since October 28, 1993.

USA TODAY was founded in 1982 with a mission to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation. Through its flagship newspaper and popular Web site, USA TODAY engages the national conversation and connects readers online through social media applications. USA TODAY, the nation’s number one newspaper in print circulation with a total average daily print circulation of nearly 1.9 million, and USATODAY.com, an award-winning newspaper Web site which launched in 1995, reach a combined 5.8 million readers daily. The USA TODAY news and information brand also includes: USA TODAY Education, USA TODAY LIVE, USA TODAY Mobile, and USA TODAY Sports Weekly. USA TODAY is owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI).