Top Ten Books
Hot off the presses, beautiful, and in anticipation of our publication party on Sunday at 3 p.m., “Malibu: A Century of Living by the Sea” popped instantly onto the top ten list this week.
Diesel, A Bookstore’s No. 1 nonfiction title, showing that summer is here and surf’s up: “Surf Diva,” the wonderful guide to surfing for girls of all ages. In fiction, the latest No. 1 detective agency novel, the new Sue Monk Kidd (author of “The Secret Life of Bees”), and the new Isabel Allende novel, “Zorro,” bring fresh new novels to the top ten. For children, two by Megan McDonald: The fourth in the ever-popular Judy Moody series is out in paperback and her younger brother, James, gets his own solo adventure in “Stink.” Topping the children’s list, the handbook follow-up to last year’s runaway bestseller: “Dragonology.”
Let the summer reading begin!
Fiction
1. “In the Company of Cheerful Ladies,” by Alexander McCall Smith, cloth, Random House, $19.95
2. “Gidget,” by Frederick Kohner, paper, Penguin, $13
3. “The Shadow of the Wind,” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, paper, Penguin, $15
4. “Gilead,” by Marilyn Robinson, cloth, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23
5. “Saturday,” by Ian McEwan, cloth, Doubleday & Co., $26
6. “The Mermaid Chair,” by Sue Monk Kidd, cloth, Viking, $24.95
7. “The History of Love,” by Nicole Krauss, cloth, W.W. Norton & Co., $23.95
8. “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” by Jonathan Safran Foer, cloth, Houghton Mifflin & Co., $24.95
9. “Zorro,” by Isabel Allende, cloth, HarperCollins, $25.95
10. “Kite Runner,” by Khaled Hosseini, paper, Riverhead, $14
Nonfiction
1. “Surf Diva: A Girl’s Guide to Getting Good Waves,” by Isabel & Coco Tihanyi, paper, Harcourt, $14
2. “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century,” by Thomas Friedman, cloth, Farrar Straus & Giroux, $27.50
3. “My Life So Far,” by Jane Fonda, cloth, Random House, $26.95
4. “Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayas,” by Michka Assayas, cloth, Riverhead, $23.95
5. “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,” by Malcolm Gladwell, cloth, Little, Brown & Co., $25.95
6. “Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement,” by Dennis Banks, paper, University of Oklahoma Press, $19.95
7. “French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure,” by Mireil Guiliano, cloth, Alfred A. Knopf, $22
8. “On Bullshit,” by Harry Frankfurt, cloth, Princeton University Press, $9.95
9. “Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art,” by Gene Wilder, cloth, St. Martin’s, $23.95
10. “Malibu: A Century of Living by the Sea,” Julius Shulman and Juergen Nogai (with an introduction by The Malibu Times writer David Wallace), cloth, Abrams, $50
Children
1. “Dragonology Handbook: A Practical Course in Dragons,” by Ernest Drake, cloth, Candlewick Press, $12.99
2. “Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception,” Vol. 4, by Eoin Colfer, cloth, Hyperion, $16.95
3. “Nobody Does It Better: Gossip Girl #7,” Cecily Von Ziegesar, paper, Little, Brown & Co., $9.99
4. “Hoot,” by Carl Hiaasen, paper, Alfred A. Knopf, $8.95
5. “Tiger: The Five Ancestors #1,” by Jeff Stone, cloth, Random, $15.95
6. “Magic Skeleton Book: Human Body,” by Janet Sacks, cloth, Sterling, 9.95
7. “Inkheart,” by Cornelia Funke, paper, Scholastic, $7.99
8. “Judy Moody Predicts the Future,” by Megan McDonald, paper, Candlewick Press, $5.99
9. “Because of Winn-Dixie,” by Kate Dicamillo, paper, Candlewick Press, $5.99
10. “Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid,” by Megan McDonald, cloth, Candlewick Press, $12.99
Malibu’s Top Ten Book list provided by DIESEL, A Bookstore