Topic: Alice Munro

Bestselling books the week of 1/3/13, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of 12/20/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of 12/13/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of 12/6/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of 11/29/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of 11/22/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

11 best books of November, according to Amazon's editors

What are the best books to pick up this month? From fiction to nonfiction, Amazon's editors suggest the titles that they believe are the cream of the crop.

Chapter & Verse
Haruki Murakami: early leader in Nobel Prize predictions

British gambling site Ladbrokes puts Japanese author Haruki Murakami at odds of 10/1 for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

National Book Awards: the 2011 fiction nominees

Five novels vie tonight for the 2011 National Book Award title,

3 short story collections: some of the best I've ever read

When it comes to short stories, the best insight on how to read them I've ever found came from a new book on writing, “Unless It Moves the Human Heart,” by Roger Rosenblatt. One of Rosenblatt's graduate students said, in effect, that the writer begins by saying, “And so, we have come to this.” Of three new collections out this winter, two rank among the best I've ever read. If this is what we've come to, 2011 should be rich indeed.

Bestselling books the week of 11/18/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of 2/4/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling most in independent bookstores across the US.

Bestselling books, week of 1/21/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in America's independent bookstores

Bestselling books, week of 1/14/10, according to IndieBound*

1/14/10 bestseller lists based on reporting from independent bookstores

Chapter & Verse
Was 2009 the year of the short story?

Some outstanding collections have drawn attention, but doubts remain as to how many actually get read.

Bestselling hardcover books, according to Indie Bound*

Too Much Happiness

A new collection of nine short stories from a master of the genre.

A Gate at the Stairs

Family, race, and religion mingle in Lorrie Moore's incisive coming-of-age novel about a college girl disillusioned by what she sees of adult life.

The Red Convertible

This collection of short pieces by Louise Erdrich is a rich sampler of her writing at its best.

Thrilling woes of that thing called ‘love story’

Jeffrey Eugenides’s collection of love stories hits the spot

The thrilling woes of that thing called 'love story'

'My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead' compiles 27 stories by respected writers for one-stop reading on amour.