Top Reads: A SONG OF ICE & FIRE Series Reclaims Amazon's List, Week Ending 6/16

By: Jun. 16, 2013
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Since there's no end-all-be-all 'best seller' list, BWW Books has rounded up both The New York Times' top sellers as well as Amazon's - providing you with your one-stop look at this week's top reads!

Dan Brown's latest 'Robert Langdon' novel, INFERNO, held onto the top spot of The New York Times' fiction best seller list, as well as its no. 2 position on Amazon for the second week in a row. Sheryl Sandberg's LEAN IN continues to control the nonfiction NY Times list, George R.R. Martin's famed A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE series worked its way to the top of Amazon's best seller charts, dethroning Stephen King's latest novel JOYLAND.

The top 10 for fiction, nonfiction, and more are below!

The New York Times Best Sellers
Combined Print & E-Book Fiction

1) INFERNO: A NOVEL - Dan Brown
2) AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED - Khaled Hosseini
3) THE HIT - David Baldacci
4) DEEPLY ODD - Dean Koontz
5) THE FOREVER OF ELLA AND MICHA - Jessica Sorensen
6) ZERO HOUR - Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
7) WORLD WAR Z - Max Brooks
8) SEA GLASS ISLAND - Sherryl Woods
9) SILKEN PREY - John Sandford
10) 12TH OF NEVER - James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

1) LEAN IN: WOMEN, WORK, AND THE WILL TO LEAD - Sheryl Sandberg
2) HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY - Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach
3) PROOF OF HEAVEN - Eben Alexander
4) LET'S EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS - David Sedaris
5) ELEVEN RINGS - Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty
6) THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT - Rick Atkinson
7) THE UNWINDING - George Packer
8) WILD - Cheryl Strayed
9) DAD IS FAT - Jim Gaffigan
10) AMERICAN SNIPER - Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice

For the full list of New York Times Best Sellers, click here.


Amazon Top Best Sellers

1) A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, Books 1-4 - George R.R. Martin
2) INFERNO: A NOVEL - Dan Brown
3) JOYLAND (HARD CASE CRIME) - Stephen King
4) AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED - Khaled Hosseini
5) GEORGE WASHINGTON: THE CROSSING - Jack E Levin
6) DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS, FIFTH EDITION - American Psychiatric Association
7) HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY - Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach
8) THE GREAT GATSBY - F. Scott Fitzgerald
9) BAD MONKEY - Carl Hiaasen
10) THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE: A NOVEL - Neil Gaiman (Release: 6/18)

For the the full list of Amazon's top best sellers, click here.



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