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
11/22/63
Stephen King

The Litigators
John Grisham

The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides

Mr. Fox
Helen Oyeyemi

Aleph
Paulo Coelho

Hardcover Nonfiction
The Cook’s Illustrated Cookbooks
Cook’s Illustrated Magazine

Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson

A Natural History of the Piano
Stuart Isacoff

Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Mindy Kaling

Paperback Fiction
The Tiger’s Wife
Tea Obrecht

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

The Best American Short Stories 2011
ed. Geraldine Brooks

Room
Emma Donoghue

Paperback Nonfiction
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson

Unlikely Friendships
Jennifer Holland

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebbecca Skloot

Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff

Griftopia
Matt Taibbi

Young Adult and Children’s Books
Cabin Fever
Jeff Kinney

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins

The Son of Neptune
Rick Riordan

Inheritance
Christopher Paolini

Lake Theatre’s top attended movies of the weekend

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1. Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

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2. Happy Feet 2

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3. J. Edgar

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4. Puss in Boots

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5. Tower Heist

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6. Jack and Jill

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7. Immortals

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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...