Mostly Books’ best-sellers for the week ending Jan. 7, 2011
1. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1
Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, University of California ($34.95)
2. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire, Harper ($7.99)
3. Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff, Little, Brown ($29.99)
4. Left Neglected
Lisa Genova, Gallery ($25)
5. Eighth Grade Bites: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, Book 1
Heather Brewer, Speak ($8.99)
6. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage ($7.99)
7. 1984
George Orwell, Signet ($9.99)
8. Under the Persimmon Tree
Suzanne Fisher Staples, Square Fish ($7.99)
9. Into the Beautiful North: A Novel
Luis Alberto Urrea, Back Bay ($14.99)
10. Freedom: A Novel
Jonathan Franzen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ($28)
This article appears in Jan 13-19, 2011.