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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
1Q84
Haruki Murakami

The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides

Zone One
Colson Whitehead

The Paris Wife
Paula McLain

The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach

Hardcover Nonfiction
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson

Blue Nights
Joan Didion

Food Rules
Micahel Pollan, illustated by Maira Kalman

Great By Choice
Jim Collins

Charles Dickens
Claire Tomalin

Paperback Fiction
Freedom
Jonathan Franzen

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

The Help
Kathryn Stockett

Luka and the Fire of Life
Salman Rushdie

The Tiger’s Wife
Tea Obrecht

Paperback Nonfiction
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebbecca Skloot

Filthy English
Peter Silverton

The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood
Jane Leavy

Mental_Floss: The Book: The Greatest Lists in the History of Listory
Will Pearson & Mangesh Hattikudur

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Simon Winchester

Young Adult and Children’s Books
Every Thing on It
Shel Silverstein

The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories
Dr. Seuss

Son of Neptune
Rick Riordan

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Kadir Nelson