CATEGORIES

Elizabeth Gilbert had far and away the most mentions in this week’s media. Her new title Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage picks up where Gilbert left off in Eat, Pray, Love. Having vowed never to tie the knot, Gilbert and her partner find themselves caught between a rock and an altar. Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World by Barbara Ehrenreich, in which she argues ‘that the insistence on being cheerful actually leads to a lonely and dangerous inwards focus’, was also popular. Elizabeth Kostova made the charts again with The Swan Thieves as did Stephen King with Under the Dome–Media Extra.

Most mentioned in the Media this week

1 Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage, by Elizabeth Gilbert
2 Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World, by Barbara Ehrenreich
3 Makers, by Cory Doctorow
4 Swan Thieves, The by Elizabeth Kostova
5 Love of the World, by John McGahern

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2010/01/14584/

This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love, has topped the charts again in the Highest New Entries this week at any rate–with Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, her exploration of marriage ahead of her own nuptials. Dan Brown is number one in the Bestsellers with The Lost Symbol and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is close behind at number two. James Patterson, never seeming to be far from the action in the charts, has Worst Case coming in at number one in the Fastest Movers this week.

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2010/01/14552/

This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

Fantasy fans will be happy that Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s The Gathering Storm has reached number one in the Highest New Entries and number three in the Bestseller charts this week. Stephanie Meyer’s Eclipse (Red-Edged) edition has slipped to number nine. Matthew Reilly’s The Five Greatest Warriors is number one again in the Bestsellers and Michael Connelly’s Nine Dragons is top of the Fastest Movers chart followed by Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/11/13914/

This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.