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
The Leftovers
Tom Perrotta

The Paris Wife
Paula McLain

The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach

The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern

State of Wonder
Ann Patchett

Hardcover Nonfiction
Life Itself: A Memoir
Roger Ebert

Just My Type: A Book about Fonts
Simon Garfield

That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Thomas Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand

Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life
Michael Moore

Paperback Fiction
The Help
Kathryn Stockett

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow

Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese

A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin

Paperback Nonfiction
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
Matt Taibbi

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee

Oak Park: the Evolution of a Village
David Sokol

The Grace of Silence: A Memoir
Michele Norris

Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom
Jennifer Holland

Young Adult and Children’s Books
Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins

Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick

Big Nate on a Roll
Lincoln Peirce

Lake Theatre’s top attended movies of the weekend

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1. The Lion King 3D

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2. Contagion

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3. Drive

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4. The Interrupters

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5. The Help

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6. The Debt

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7. Warrior

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