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

For more on the local book scene, check out Helen Kossler’s books blog at OakPark.com/Books

Hardcover Fiction
A Dance with Dragons
George R. R. Martin

The State of Wonder
Ann Patchett

A Death in Summer
Benjamin Black

The Paris Wife
Paula McLain

Stone Arabia
Dana Spiotta

Hardcover Nonfiction
County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital
David Ansell

Go the F**k to Sleep
Adam Mansbach

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
Erik Larson

Hometown Architect: The Complete Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park and River Forest, Illinois
Patrick Cannon

The Chicago Homegrown Cookbook: Local Food, Local Restaurants, Local Recipe
Heather Lalley

Paperback Fiction
The Help
Kathryn Stockett

A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin

Room
Emma Donoghue

Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese

A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin

Paperback Nonfiction
Oak Park: The Evolution of a Village
David Sokol

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot

The Disappearing Spoon
Sam Kean

Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell

Medium Raw
Anthony Bourdain

Young Adult and Children’s Books
Should I Share My Ice Cream
Mo Willems

Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs

Lake Theatre’s top attended movies of the weekend

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1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

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2. Horrible Bosses

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3. Transformers: Dark of the Moon

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4. Midnight in Paris

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5. Zookeeper

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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...