Topic: Geraldine Brooks

Bestselling books the week of 5/19/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

3 of this month's best novels

Novelist John Gardner once said that there are only two plots in literature: someone goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. You're trying to think of exceptions right now, aren't you? Well, while you brainstorm, this month's fiction roundup is packing its bags to join three novels' worth of characters as they set out on life-altering adventures 400 years and thousands of miles apart.

Bestselling books the week of 5/12/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

8 best books of May: Amazon editors choose

It's the month of Mother's Day, commencement addresses, cookouts, and the Indianapolis 500 – not quite summer but deep into spring. What should you be reading? If you ask the Amazon editors, here's what they will tell you are the very best titles of May 2011.

IndieBound* paperback bestseller list 8/27/09

IndieBound* paperback bestseller list 8/20/09

Classic review: March

Mr. March, from 'Little Women,' enlists to fight for equality.

IndieBound* paperback bestseller list 8/13/09

IndieBound* paperback bestseller list

IndieBound* paperback bestseller list 7/30/09

IndieBound* paperback bestseller list 7/23/09

IndieBound* paperback bestseller list 7/16/09

IndieBound* paperback bestseller list 7/9/09

IndieBound* paperback bestseller list 7/1/09

Bestselling paperback books

IndieBound paperback bestseller list

People of the Book

The books authors have on their Christmas lists

'People of the Book' offers lessons in tolerance

Geraldine Brooks’s new novel offers lessons in tolerance.

'People of the Book' offers lessons in tolerance

The new novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks features a book that becomes a witness to history.