Mostly Books best-sellers for the week ending July 31, 2009
1. Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown ($27.99)
2. Fire and Ice
J.A. Jance, William Morrow ($20.79, sale)
3. The Time Traveler’s Wife
Audrey Niffenegger, Mariner ($14.95)
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Dial ($14)
5. The Shack
William Paul Young, Windblown ($14.99)
6. The Schwa Was Here
Neal Shusterman, Puffin ($6.99)
7. Still Alice
Lisa Genova, Pocket ($15)
8. Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand, Signet ($8.99)
9. Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris, Ace ($22.36, sale)
10. My Sister’s Keeper: A Novel
Jodi Picoult, Washington Square ($7.99, sale)
This article appears in Aug 6-12, 2009.
That’s amazing to see Atlas Shrugged, a book published in 1947, in the top ten best selling list 62 years later. I hope it stays there, too, because it explains so many important ideas that are relevant to what’s going on today. It’s the most life-changing book I’ve read, and I cannot recommend it strongly enough.