Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Oct. 12)

Watermark Books & Cafe

Best-sellers

1. “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett

2. “Full Dark No Stars” by Stephen King

3. “The book With No Pictures” by B. J. Novak

4. “A Good Marriage” (audiobook), by Stephen King

5. “The High Divide” by Lin Enger

6. “Joyland” by Stephen King

7. “A Quilt for Christmas” by Sandra Dallas

8. “Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science” by Atul Gawande

9. “The Memory of Old Jack” by Wendell Berry

10. “Not That Kind of Girl” by Lena Dunham

New and notable

“Being Moral” by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan Books - $26) Surgeon and bestselling author Gawande examines aging, death, and dying in the medical profession. Tickets to see Gawande at WSU on Sunday, October 19th at 7 p.m. are available at Watermark Books.

“Around the Table” by Martina McBride (William Morrow, $29.99) Kansas native and country star McBride branches out into the world of cooking with celebration-oriented suggestions and recipes. Watermark has a limited number of signed copies in stock.

Eighth Day Books

Best-sellers

1. “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character” by Paul Tough

2. “The World of Silence” by Max Picard

3. “An Inner Step Toward God: Writings and Teachings on Prayer” by Fr. Alexander Men

4. “The Making of an Ordinary Saint: My Journey from Frustration to Joy with the Spiritual Disciplines” by Nathan Foster

5. “The Wizard of Oz: A BabyLit Book” by Jennifer Adams

6. “A Spiritual Formation Workbook - Revised Edition: Small Group Resources for Nurturing Christian Growth” by James Bryan Smith and Richard Foster

7. “Centuries of Meditations” by Thomas Traherne

8. “Voices from the Gulag” ed. by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

9. “George Herbert: The Complete English Works” by George Herbert

10.“Lila: A Novel” by Marilynne Robinson

New and notable

“Wilfred Owen” by Guy Culbertson (Yale University Press, $40.00). One of Britain’s best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his misgivings about the war’s rationale and conduct. He left behind a body of poetry that captured the pity, rage, valor, and futility of the conflict.

National best-sellers

Fiction

1. “Burn” by Patterson/Ledwidge

2. “Edge of Eternity” by Ken Follett

3. “The Lost Key” by Coulter/Ellison

4. “Personal” by Lee Child

5. “Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good” by Jan Karon

6. “Festive in Death” by J.D. Robb

7. “Rise of the King” by R.A. Salvatore

8. “Bones Never Lie” by Kathy Reichs

9. “The Eye of Heaven” by Cussler/Blake

10. “The Perfect Witness” by Iris Johansen

Nonfiction

1. “Killing Patton” by O’Reilly/Dugard

2. “The Skinnytaste Cookbook” by Gina Homolka

3. “Not That Kind of Girl” by Lena Dunham

4. “You Can, You Will” by Joel Osteen

5. “Dungeons & Dragons: Monster Manual” by Wizards RPG Team

6. “Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success” by Steve Harvey

7. “Guinness World Records 2015” by Guinness World Records

8. “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” byTheresa Caputo

9. “Jesus on Trial” by David Limbaugh

10. “What If?” by Randall Munroe

This story was originally published October 11, 2014 at 3:43 PM with the headline "Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Oct. 12)."