Books Writers
The Current Best Selling Books On The Market
By Danny Wright
With thousands of books written every year on all sorts of topics from business to fiction to religious, it is impossible to read every book released. Thankfully, The New York Times gives us some help by releasing and constantly updating the best-seller list for all of the topics you can imagine. Here are the current best sellers for four different categories.
Hardcover Fiction
The number 3 best seller for hardcover fiction books is Daddy’s Girl by Lisa Scottoline. This is a fast-paced thriller that keeps the reader’s attention and will keep you reading non-stop. The number 2 non-fiction book is Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella. This book takes the main character, Becky, amidst a possible love triangle with her husband and his ex-girlfriend as she shops for the perfect world for her baby. Finally, the number 1 best seller is Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. This is another contemporary thriller by Picoult about a high school shooting.
Hardcover Non-Fiction
The number 3 non-fiction best seller on the New York Times list is ‘I Feel Bad About My Neck’ by Nora Ephron. This comedy book discusses the topic of aging, in particular women aging. The number 2 book is ‘A Long Way Gone’ by Ishmael Beah, which takes into account the life of a young boy at the age of 12 who is swept into the horrifying world of civil war. The best seller currently for non-fiction books is ‘In An Instant’ by Lee and Bob Woodruff. This tells the tale of the traumatic experience Bob Woodruff experienced in Iraq and how he and Lee Woodruff worked through the difficult times after.
Children
Number 3 on the list for children’s books is Flotsam by David Wiesner. It all begins as a boy finds a camera that is washed ashore, and from there it is an adventure full of pictures. The number 2 best seller is Today I Will Fly! by Mo Willems, which tells the story of a piggie who is optimistic about flying and an elephant that is skeptical. With a little help from others, amazing things happen. Lastly, the number one book is Someday by Alison McGhee, which tells an enchanting story of a mother’s dream coming true, watching her child live life to the fullest.
Religion
The number 3 religious book is The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. This book guides you to learn to understand and speak the unique language of love through a couple’s guidance. The second book on the best seller list is by Richard Dawkins entitled The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins attacks arguments for the existence of God in this controversial book. The number one religious book on the market is Grace by Anne Lamott, which takes Lamott’s life into the realm of reality as problems of faith pop up in the most unexpected places.
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Well, children’s books require a separate set of skills. Writing well without making it too complicated can actually take a lot of intelligence. Dr. Seuss was no less smart than any modern adult writer, I imagine, he wrote great classics.
I can kind of see your point when it comes to “teen” books, though. Teen books tend to simply be adult books of lower quality.
Book authors who choose to write only children’s and teen books less Intelligent then adult book writers?
I think its good that they have children and teen books b/c children and teens need them but i think there’s something terribly wrong with book authors who choose to ONLY WRITE TEENS or CHILDREN’S books ONLY. There must be a reason for them only writing children and teen books only and not adult books too. The answer is simple their less intelligent then adult book writers.
Like the person above me, I don’t think they planned it that way. And maybe it has to do with the fact that when you read as a child you have a broader imagination and so when you read those books it affects you more. Children minds are so susceptible to new ideas because they still contain that certain innocence and haven’t been tainted by society.
But you know what? I read The Giver in 6th grade and loved it but I can barely remember the book! I should go back and re-read it because it was an incredible book. I haven’t read City of Ember though.
What are your favorite books by Latin American writers?
I just finished reading “El Tunel” by Sabato. Many high school students in Latin America find the book in their cirriculum and name it as their favorite book (Like To Kill a Mockingbird for us, I suppose …). Honestly, I was not super impressed.
I have read a fair bit of Allende and Marquez because their international popularity make them hard to miss. And they are both gifted storytellers.
I have read alot of Pablo Coelho — mostly in Spanish, for me to get in a bit of practice (because they are easy and cheap pirated copies are all over the place …) — Please don’t give me Coelho suggestions. His feel-good books annoy me with their unrealized potential. That is, I see so much that could happen with an idea that inspires something like The Fifth Mountain or Veronica Decides to Die and then I get … almost nothing.
SO. What books / writers am I missing out on?
How do famous physics book writers (Such as Serway, Jackson, Cohen-Tannoudji) research for their books?
The obviously cant just copy someone else book. Some books, like Jackson’s Electrodynamics, include a bibliography of hundreds of works. How do they even know what to search for?
My partner is a research physicist and he says if you write a paper (or a book) you have to reference everything that is along the same lines to what you have written about. Its not like writing an essay in English where you reference only what you have directly used or quoted from.
What drives writers books such as The Giver, City of Ember for children?
You all know many of our favorite books were read in Elementary school; yet their deep lessons in life stay in our hearts for all eternity.
What moved these brave writers to break the ice of children’s literature? What drives them to deviate away from the child-writing norm?
Let me hear your answers. Tell me, what do you think?
First off, I agree with you on Coelho… although he writes in Portuguese, not Spanish, originally (one less thing to be ashamed of!).
You’re missing out on:
** Julio Cortázar. I recommend _everything_ he wrote, from his short tales to his novels. The best novel I’ve read is “Rayuela” (= Hopscotch). Amazing, original… read it.
** Mario Levrero. I’ve read two books by this Uruguayan writer: “La ciudad” and “El lugar”. They’re similar to each other, but different from anything else I’ve read.
** Ernesto Sábato. Try other things by this great writer… but I find his works depressing.
** Jorge Luis Borges. Any of his short tale books (I don’t care much for poetry, but he has that too). Unbelievably good (he deserved a Nobel prize and he never got it)
** Adolfo Bioy Casares.
** Eduardo Galeano. Another famous Uruguayan writer.
** Last but not least: If you like fantasy literature, I strongly recommend LILIANA BODOC. I know her books are probably not easy to find outside South America right now, but her trilogy called “La saga de los Confines” will become a classic, I’m sure.
Ok, so I’m Argentina-biased… I can’t help it!
I hope you get more recommendations from other South American users 🙂
What ever happened to the classic horror writers,books?
There used to be the greats. Poe, Lovecraft, etc. Now a horror writer is just a writer and there are no more greats. The only one of I can think of right now is Stephen King. Books used to be works of art, now, they are just books. Whatever happened to the great horror writers and the great horror stories of the world? Now if you publish a story, it quickly gets lost, in the world of literature.
There are still people writing good material, but it’s few and far between. Styles and genres change with the passage of time, but we still have the older works with Poe, Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, August Derleth, Robert Howard, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Brown, the incomparable Robert Bloch and others. Glad we have them to bring some darkness into our lives. Nice to know that someone still remembers them.