BOOK BUZZ FROM USA TODAY
By Press Release - Nov 09 , 2009
McLEAN, VA, November 9, 2009—Here’s the latest book buzz from USA TODAY with a highlight of tomorrow’s Best-Selling Books list:
• It was first published in 1996 with the title Push. On Friday, the writer Sapphire’s story of an illiterate, pregnant 16-year-old Harlem teenager named Precious hits movie screens, under the title Precious. The film, produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, has generated plenty of buzz, which has pushed the novel up to No. 22 on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list.
• Kicking off the holiday season’s cookbook parade is The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes From an Accidental Country Girl by Ree Drummond, which enters the list at No. 29. Her website, ThePioneerWoman.com, packed with family-friendly recipes, receives 2.5 million unique visitors a month.
• Jamie Ford’s debut novel, Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, the latest book club pick at Target, the discount chain, moves up to No. 63 on the extended list. It features a Chinese-American widower who once loved a Japanese-American girl.
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).
