The Book Table‘s bestsellers of the week for Hardcover Fiction, Hardcover Nonfiction, Paperback Fiction, Paperback Nonfiction and Young Adult and Children’s Books.

Be sure to check out Helen Kossler’s books blog at OakPark.com/Books

Hardcover Fiction
The Pale King
David Foster Wallace

Caleb’s Crossing
Gergaldine Brooks

The Tiger’s Wife
Tea Obrecht

Pulse
Julian Barnes

The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
Benjamin Hale

Hardcover Nonfiction
In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson

Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure
Tavis Smiley

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
David McCullough

Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales

She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems
Caroline Kennedy

Paperback Fiction
Room
Emma Donoghue

The Frozen Rabbi
Steve Stern

Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart

Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese

Island Beneath the Sea
Isabel Allende

Paperback Nonfiction
Life
Keith Richards

The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures
Philip Mould

The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot

Upside of Irrationality
Dan Ariely

Young Adult and Children’s Books
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak

The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book
Jeff Kinney

Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Jeff Kinney

Lake Theatre’s top attended movies of the weekend

 

""

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. The Hangover, Part 2

""

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Kung Fu Panda 2

""

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Bridesmaids

""

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

""

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Thor

Join the discussion on social media!

Evan O'Brien is the content manager of OakPark.com. Soon after Evan was born in Chicago, his family moved to Oak Park for the same reason that attracts people to the "World's Largest Village" today: the...