Top Reads: Dan Brown's INFERNO Debuts as Amazon's No. 1 Best Seller , Week Ending 5/19

By: May. 19, 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, debuted at the top of Amazon's best seller list this week, though it failed to place on The New York Times' fiction list. James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's 12TH OF NEVER took that top spot, with David Baldacci's THE HIT falling to second place. On the non-fiction front, Glenn Beck's latest book CONTROL took the top spot.

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


The New York Times Best Sellers

Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
1) 12TH OF NEVER - James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
2) THE HIT - David Baldacci.
3) BEST KEPT SECRET - Jeffrey Archer.
4) WHISKEY BEACH - Nora Roberts
5) WIND CHIME POINT - Sherryl Woods.
6) MOON - Laurann Dohner
7) DAMAGED - H. M. Ward
8) THE BET - Rachel Van Dyken
9) A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY - John Irving
10) THIS GIRL - Colleen Hoover

Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
1) CONTROL - Glenn Beck and others
2) WAITING TO BE HEARD - Amanda Knox
3) LEAN IN: WOMEN, WORK, AND THE WILL TO LEAD - Sheryl Sandberg
4) LET'S EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS - David Sedaris
5) PROOF OF HEAVEN - Eben Alexander
6) COOKED - Michael Pollan
7) BUNKER HILL - Nathaniel Philbrick
8) BRAIN ON FIRE - Susannah Cahalan
9) WILD - Cheryl Strayed
10) MY NEXT STEP - Dave Liniger with Laura Morton

For The New York Times' full list of best sellers, click here.


Amazon Top Best Sellers

1) INFERNO: A NOVEL - Dan Brown
2) THE GREAT GATSBY - F. Scott Fitzgerald
3) AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED - Khaled Hosseini (Release: 5/21)
4) OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! - Dr. Seuss
5) HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY: MY LIFE AND LEGACY AS THE DUCK COMMANDER - Phil Robertson
6) THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT: THE WAR IN WESTERN EUROPE, 1944-1945 (THE LIBERATION TRILOGY) - Rick Atkinson
7) LEAN IN: WOMEN, WORK, AND THE WILL TO LEAD - Sheryl Sandberg
8) MY GREEK DRAMA: LIFE, LOVE, AND ONE WOMAN'S OLYMPIC EFFORT TO BRING GLORY TO HER COUNTRY - Gianna Angelopoulos
9) A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, Books 1-4 - George R.R. Martin
10) DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS, FIFTH EDITION - American Psychiatric Association

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



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