Our top books hitting bookstores this week. Also includes links to our reviews and full On-Sale Calendar.
October 25
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30; ISBN 978-0-374-27563-1). 100,000 copies.
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Knopf, $30; ISBN 978-0-307-59331-3). 100,000 copies
Look, I Made a Hat by Stephen Sondheim (Knopf, $45; ISBN 978-0-307-59341-2). 100,000 copies.
Jerusalem by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Knopf, $35; ISBN 978-0-307-26651-4). 60,000 copies.
With Liberty and Justice for Some by Glenn Greenwald (Metropolitan, $26; ISBN 978-0-8050-9205-9). 60,000 copies.
Ben-Gurion by Shimon Peres (Schocken, $25.95; ISBN 978-0-8052-4282-9). 60,000 copies.
Buckley by Carl T. Bogus (Bloomsbury, $30; ISBN 978-1-59691-580-0). 50,000 copies.
Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa by Richard Grant (Free Press, $15 paper; ISBN 978-1-4391-5414-4).
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case by Debbie Nathan (Free Press, $26; ISBN 978-1-4391-6827-1)
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S. Thompson (Simon & Schuster, $30; ISBN 978-1-4391-6595-9).
October 27
I Want My MTV by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum (Dutton, $28.95; ISBN 978-0-525-95230-5). 50,000 copies.
Children’s and YA
October 25
Destined by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast (St. Martin’s Griffin, $18.99; ISBN 978-0-312-65025-4). 1,500,000 copies.
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-547-54810-4). 250,000 copies.
Chipwrecked: Too Cool for Rules (Alvin and the Chipmunks) by J.E. Bright (HarperCollins, $3.99 paper; ISBN 978-0-06-208602-0). 150,000 copies.
The Snow Angel by Glenn Beck, illus. by Brandon Dorman (S&S/Aladdin, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-4424-4448-5).