November 9, 2008
New York Times Hardcover Advice Best-seller List
| This Week | Weeks on List | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BAREFOOT
CONTESSA BACK TO BASICS, by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter, $35.) Cooking techniques and nearly 100 new recipes for elegant meals. |
1 |
| 2 | FLAT
BELLY DIET!, by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass (Rodale, $25.95.) Nutrition advice and workout tips from the editors of Prevention magazine. |
1 |
| 3 | THE
LAST LECTURE, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion, $21.95.) Thoughts on “seizing every moment” from Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon professor who died of pancreatic cancer at age 47. |
30 |
| 4 | MARTHA
STEWART’S COOKING SCHOOL, by Martha Stewart with Sarah
Carey. Photographs by Marcus Nilsson and Ditte Isager (Clarkson Potter, $45.) How to roast, broil, braise, stew, sauté, poach and more. |
2 |
| 5* | THE
SECRET, by Rhonda Byrne (Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95.) The law of attraction as a key to getting what you want. |
95 |
| 6 | GUINNESS
WORLD RECORDS 2009, edited by Craig Glenday (Guinness, $28.95.) Tallest, fastest, youngest, most. |
7 |
| 7 | GIADA’S
KITCHEN, by Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter, $32.50.) A collection of 100 Italian recipes with a California twist. |
5 |
| 8 | LOVE
YOUR LIFE, by Victoria Osteen (Free Press, $25.) Osteen, co-pastor of the Lakewood megachurch, on using God’s teachings to find balance in one’s life. |
3 |
| 9 | THE
TEN ROADS TO RICHES, by Ken Fisher and Lara Hoffmans (Fisher Investments, $24.95.) How America’s millionaires and billionaires made their fortunes, and what to learn from them. |
1 |
| 10 | WHAT
IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON?, by David Jeremiah (Nelson, $22.99.) A pastor on what to expect and how to live based on 10 end-of-days prophecies in the Bible. (†) |
2 |
Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending November 1, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
List and descriptions from the New York Times web site at
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/index.html