On the reading list?

It looks like a rainy start to the Easter weekend – at least in Johannesburg!

The wife has claimed her Kindle back so I’ve had to search high and low through our bookshelves to find something decent to read. I even went so far as to look at what was on the daughters shelf and came across her copy of “Twilight”.

Up until now I have had absolutely no desire to read it. I love science fiction of the vampire nature, but my impression of Twilight was a lame, soppy, romantic series for teenagers.

I appear to have gotten it a little wrong and the book is actually quite well written and story line is sound! Maybe that explains why it has been such a phenomenal success on all the best-seller lists?

So what else are people reading this weekend?

Bestselling Books - 13 September 2009

Sunday is here and once again we review the hottest books on the various online retailers.

Gotta be honest and point out that this must be one of the first weeks where Amazon didn't include a Twilight book - an amazing run though. However as you can see below the South African retailers continue to be dominated by these books!

Exclusive Books
1. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
2. Spud - Learning to Fly
3. Architects of Poverty
4. New Moon
5. Breaking Dawn
6. Outliers
7. Eclipse
8. Twilight
9. Spud
10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Amazon.com
1. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
2. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
3. True Compass: A Memoir - Edward Kennedy
4. Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One - Julia Child
5. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
6. An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Outlander) - Diana Gabaldon
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - Jeff Kinney
8. Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin - Kathy Griffin
9. The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks
10. The Shack - William P. Young

Take.co.za
1. Eclipse - Meyer, Stephenie
2. New Moon - Meyer, Stephenie
3. Breaking Dawn - Meyer, Stephenie
4. Twilight - Meyer, Stephenie
5. Faefever - Moning, Karen Marie
6. Girl Who Played with Fire - Larsson, Stieg
7. The Darkest Whisper - Showalter, Gena
8. Pleasure - Frank, Jacquelyn
9. Heat Seeker - Leigh, Lora
10. Spud Learning to Fly - John Van De Ruit

Kalahari.Net
1. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
2. Fees van die ongenooides - PG Du Plessis
3. Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer
4. Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
5. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
6. Spud – Learning to fly - John Van De Ruit
7. Troepie: van Blougat tot Bosoupa - Cameron Blake
8. Jesus word gebore - Gloria A. Truitt
9. The Host - Stephanie Meyer
10. New Moon - Stephanie Meyer

Bestsellers - Sunday 26 July 2009

Sunday has rolled around again and it is time to look at some of the top online retailers to find out what books are selling well.

Give me your thoughts on these titles. The Twilight titles continue to dominate but some new names and faces on the lists. The new Dan Brown starting to appear on quite a few of the lists as well.

Here are the lists:

Exclusive Books
1. Spud - Learning to Fly
2. New Moon
3. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
4. Eclipse
5. Breaking Dawn
6. Twilight
7. Die Ponies Galop
8. Spud
9. Stiletto
10. Spud - The Madness Continues

Take2
1. Hidden Currents - Feehan, Christine
2. New Moon - Meyer, Stephenie
3. Twilight - Meyer, Stephenie
4. Eclipse - Meyer, Stephenie
5. Breaking Dawn - Meyer, Stephenie
6. Girl Who Played with Fire - Larsson, Stieg
7. Bengal's Heart - Leigh, Lora
8. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Larsson, Stieg
9. Faefever - Moning, Karen Marie
10. Twilight - Meyer, Stephenie

Amazon
1. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against - Glenn Beck
3. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
4. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
5. The Shack - William P. Young
6. Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto - Mark R. Levin
7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society… - Mary Ann Shaffer
8. Sookie Stackhouse, Books 1-7 - Charlaine Harris
9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) - J.K. Rowling
10. Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) - Stephenie Meyer

Kalahari.Net
1. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
2. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
3. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
4. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
5. The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
6. Spud - Learning to Fly - John Van De Ruit
7. Thula-Thula - Annelie Botes
8. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
9. Outliers: The story of success - Malcolm Gladwell
10. Spud - John Van De Ruit

CNA
1. A good woman - Danielle Steel
2. A new earth - Tolle, Eckhart
3. Eat, pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
4. Obama: From Promise to Power - David Mendell
5. Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Lechter, Sharon L Kiyosaki, Robert
6. Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell
7. The Love Dare - Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick
8. The secret - Byrne, Rhonda
9. The Shack - William P Young
10. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski