Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Sunday, Sept. 25, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Nielsen BookScan (c) 2016, The Nielsen Co.
When President Obama first took office, female White House staffers developed a little trick for making sure they weren't ignored in meetings, where two-thirds of the attendees were men.
Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr’s “Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia” tells the story spanning 400 years of how the music of Scotland and Ireland moved to the Southern Appalachians.
Anyone who has ever experienced the uniquely soul-stirring amalgam of musical celebration, spiritual rejuvenation, intellectual provocation and physical release-to-the-point-of-exhaustion that is a concert by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band will feel right at home in the 508 pages of "Born to Run" (Simon & Schuster, $32.50), his 67-years- (as of Friday) in-the-making autobiography.
If you're the sort of person who gravitates toward diners, whose favorite restaurants serve breakfast all day (we are not talking about McDonald's), who makes breakfast for dinner at home and whose idea of a good time is making frosted flakes from scratch, then here's a cookbook for you. "Big Bad Breakfast" is the new book from John Currence, and it's a big, bad book of a cookbook, as was clearly the author's intent.
An interactive memoir with multiple choice questions, quizzes and the organization of a textbook? A book that invites readers and listeners to connect with the author via text? “Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly a Memoir” (book from Dutton, audio from Random House Audio) leaps beyond traditional books in structure and offers engaging views of life that are relatable, intriguing and enlightening.
Fifty Shades of Grey and the Bible rank in the top 10 of the latest list of books most objected to at public schools and libraries. Here are the books on the American Library Association’s “State of Libraries Report.”
American Library Association
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Banning books: Top 10 most challenged books
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The Bachelorette star's love life is now an open book
