Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (April 10)
Watermark Books & Cafe
Best-sellers
1. “Lust & Wonder” by Augusten Burroughs
2. “On My Own” by Diane Rehm
3. “Preparation for the Next Life” by Atticus Lish
4. “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi
5. “The Ancient Minstrel” by Jim Harrison
6. “The Nest” by Cynthia Sweeney
7. “The Children’s Crusade” by Ann Packer
8. “Relief Map” by Rosalie Knecht
9. “Listen, Liberal” by Thomas Frank
10. “Dead Wake” by Eric Larson
New and notable
“Miller’s Valley” by Anna Quindlen (Random House, $28) – Set in an ordinary farming town and beginning in the 1960s, best-selling novelist Quindlen’s novel takes us through the changing eras of one young woman and her family, as secrets are revealed and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome. Watermark has a limited number of signed copies available.
Eighth Day Books
Best-sellers
1. “A Grief Observed” by C.S. Lewis
2. “Are Women Human?” by Dorothy Sayers
3. “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle
4. “The Ladder of Divine Ascent” by St. John Climacus
5. “Summa Contra Gentiles (5 Vols.)” by St. Thomas Aquinas
6. “The Cost of Discipleship” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
7. “The Island of the Blue Dolphins” by Scott O’Dell
8. “Lilith” by George MacDonald
9. “Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary” by J.R.R. Tolkien
10. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
New and notable
“C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity: A Biography” by George Marsden (Princeton University Press, $24.95) – This is the newest in Princeton University Press’s fine “Lives of Great Religious Books” series, which focuses on texts as various as Calvin’s Institutes and the Bhagavad Gita. “Mere Christianity,” C.S. Lewis’ eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War II. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and much-beloved book.
National best-sellers
Fiction
1. “Fool Me Once’ by Harlan Coben
2. “The Nest” by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
3. “Brush of Wings” by Karen Kingsbury
4. “Private Paris” by James Patterson, Mark Sullivan
5. “Property of a Noblewoman” by Danielle Steel
6. “Journey to Munich” by Jacqueline Winspear
7. “The Summer Before the War” by Helen Simonson
8. “Off the Grid” by C.J. Box
9. “The Gangster” by Cussler/Scott
10. “No Safe Secret” by Fern Michaels
Nonfiction
1. “On Fire” by John O’Leary
2. “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi
3. “The Whole 30” by Hartwig/Hartwig
4. “Cravings” by Chrissy Teigen and Adeena Sussman
5. “Spark Joy” by Marie Kondo
6. “Celebrate” by Lauren Conrad
7. “Real Leadership” by John Addison
8. “Eat Fat, Get Thin” by Mark Hyman
9. “Smarter Faster Better” by Charles Duhigg
10. “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” by Carlo Rovelli
Publishers Weekly
This story was originally published April 9, 2016 at 1:27 PM with the headline "Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (April 10)."