Malibu's Top Ten Books
By The Malibu Times · Wed May 06 2009
Armageddon, optimism, religious pessimism, peace and liberty, and tyranny are all subjects that make this month's bestsellers nonfiction list, topped off with David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life." The children's list, and the adult's as well, has Greg Mortenson's "Three Cups of Tea," the One Book, One City-Malibu reading selection, as well as the insightful read for teenagers, "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," by Sherman Alexie.
Fiction
1. "Unaccustomed Earth: Stories," by Jhumpa Lahiri, paperback, Alfred A. Knopf, $15
2. "The Elegance of the Hedgehog," by Muriel Barberry and Alison Anderson, paperback, Europa Editions, $15
3. "Girls in Trucks," by Katie Crouch, paperback, Back Bay Books, $13.99
4. "City of Thieves," by David Benioff, paperback, Plume Books, $15
5. "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz, paperback, Riverhead Books, $14
6. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society," by Annie and Mary Barrows, hardcover, Dial Press, $22
7. "Evidence: Poems," by Mary Oliver, hardcover, Beacon Press, $23
8. "Little Bee," by Chris Cleave, hardcover, Simon & Schuster, $24
9. "Olive Kitteridge," by Elizabeth Strout, paperback, Random House, $14
10. "Out Stealing Horses," by Per Petterson, paperback, Picador, $14
Nonfiction
1. "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time," by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, paperback, Penguin, $15
2. "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto," by Mark R. Levin, hardcover, Threshold Editions, $24
3. "Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist," by Michael J. Fox, hardcover, Hyperion Books, $25.99
4. "Armageddon in Retrospect," by Kurt Vonnegut, paperback, Berkeley Publishing, $15
5. "God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," by Christopher Hitchens, paperback, Twelve, $14.99
6. "All for a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Mickey Dora," by David Rensin, Harper, $15.99
7. "My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs and Stand-Up," by Russell Brand, hardcover, Collins, $25.99
8. "Malibu: A Century of Living by the Sea," by Julius Shulman and Juergen Nogai, hardcover, HNA Books, $50
9. "About Dogs," by George Booth, hardcover, Abrams Image, $14.95
10. "This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life," by David Foster Wallace, hardcover, Little Brown and Company, $14.99
Children
1. "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," by John Boyne, paperback, David Fickling Books, $8.99
2. "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World … One Child at a Time," by Greg Mortenson, paperback, Puffin Books, $8.99
3. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw," by Jeff Kinney, hardcover, Amulet Books, $12.95
4. "Fancy Nancy: Explorer Extraordinaire!," by Jane O'Connor, hardcover, HarperCollins, $12.99
5. "Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga No. 4)," by Stephenie Meyer, hardcover, Little Brown, $22.99
6. "The Mysterious Benedict Society," by Trenton Lee Stewart, paperback, Little Brown, $6.99
7. "Scat," by Carl Hiassen, hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf, $16.99
8. "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," by Sherman Alexie, paperback, Little Brown, $8.99
9. "King Arthur and His Knights of the Roundtable," by Roger Lancelyn Green, paperback, Puffin Books, $4.99
10 "Gallop: A Scanimation Picture Book," by Rufus Seder, hardcover, Workman, $12.95
Book list provided by Diesel, A Bookstore