New York Times Bestseller List 06/19/2011

This week we have new #1 books atop both the fiction and non fiction list of the New York Times Bestseller List.

Here is the Top 5 bestsellers in Non Fiction for the week ending June 19th 2011

1 - The Greater Journey - David McCullough (2 weeks on list)
The historian explores the intellectual legacy that France settled on its 19th-century visitors.


2 - In the Garden of the Beasts - Erik Larson (4 weeks)
This portrait of Berlin during the rise of the Nazi Party concentrates on William E. Dodd, who became the U.S. ambassador to Germany in 1933, and his daughter, Martha.


3 - Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand (29 weeks)
An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

4 - Bossypants - Tina Fey (9 weeks)

5 - Those Guys Have All the Fun - James A Miller and Tom Shales (2 weeks)
An oral history of the sports network ESPN.


Here is the Top 5 bestsellers in Fiction for the week ending June 19th 2011

1 - Dreams of Joy - Lisa See (Debut)
 A young woman angry at her mother and aunt over family secrets runs away to Shanghai in search of her birth father.


2 - Dead Reckoning - Charlaine Harris (5 weeks)
 The telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse seeks the culprit in a firebombing.


3 - 10th Anniversary - James Patterson (5 weeks)
Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club race to find a missing baby.


4 - Buried Prey - John Sanford (4 weeks)
 The Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport investigates the murders of two girls who were kidnapped in 1985.


5 - The Jefferson Key - Steve Berry (3 weeks)
 The former government operative Cotton Malone foils an assassination attempt on the president and finds himself at dangerous odds with a secret society.