ROOM Holds Its Own
Despite strong competition from big-name authors, Booker shortlist title Room by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown, 9/13) is at #23 on the new USA Today best seller list, continuing for the second week as the tenth hardcover fiction title on that list.
In hardcover nonfiction, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s Earth, (The Book) (Grand Central) is the top-seller, at #6, with rival Bill O’Reilly’s Pinheads and Patriots (Morrow/HarperCollins) the second-highest nonfiction hardcover, at #15.
The most popular movie tie-in is Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage), at #47. In the October issue of Oprah magazine, the movie’s stars write about their favorite passages from the book.