Inkwell Recent Fiction Bestsellers
 1. Atonement
By Ian McEwan
Anchor, $14.95
McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam, has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with the provocation readers have come to expect from this master of English prose.
 2. Water For Elephants
By Sara Gruen
Algonguin Books Of Chapel Hill, $13.95
An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons . "Gritty, sensual and charged with dark secrets involving love, murder and a majestic, mute heroine." -"Q"Parade.
 3. Best American Short Stories
By Stephen King
Houghton Mifflin, $14.00
Pop-culture icon Stephen King serves as the guest editor of this popular anthology, which includes such contributors as Richard Russo, John Barth, Jim Shepard, Alice Munro, William Gay, and Mary Gordon.
 4. Breakfast With Buddha
By Roland Merullo
Algonguin Books Of Chapel Hill, $23.95
When Otto's sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto is not amused. In Merullo's masterful hands, Otto tells his story with all the wonder, bemusement, and wry humor of a man who unwittingly finds what he's missing in the most unexpected place.
 5. The Road
By Cormac McCarthy
Vintage, $14.95
At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential, sometimes terrifying power of filial love.
 6. His Dark Materials
By Philip Pullman
Knopf, $21.99
For the first time, all three books of Philip Pullman's award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass) is published in their entirety in one volume.
 7. The Kite Runner
By Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead, $15.00
Privileged young narrator Amir comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy in Afghanistan, then must endure revolution, invasion and a country's long struggle to triumph over violent forces. An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal.
 8. Wicked
By Gregory Maguire
Regan, $16.00
An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory.
 9. Double Cross
By James Patterson
Little Brown, $27.99
Alex Cross rejoins the police force to face the most diabolical villain he's ever encountered--a serial killer with a hunger for mega-celebrity--in Patterson's latest thrilling novel.
 10. Then We Came To An End
By Joshua Ferris
Little Brown, $23.99
This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer. Picked for the "New York Times" Top 10 Books of 2007 list.
 11. Book Of The Dead
By Patricia Cornwell
Putnam, $26.95
Kay Scarpetta faces a string of the most baffling and terrifying crimes of her career in the extraordinary new novel from America's #1 bestselling crime writer. The "book of the dead" is the morgue log in which all cases are entered by hand. For Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning.
 12. Man Gone Down
By Michael Thomas
Grove/Atlantic, $14.00
Born poor, black, and brilliant in a Boston ghetto, the unnamed man of the title is, at 35, crashing at a friend's place in New York , trying to scrape up enough money to keep his family afloat.
 13. 1000 Splendid Suns
By Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead, $25.95
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a classic, Hosseini's latest novel is at once an incredible chronicle of 30 years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation found in love.
 14. Luminous Fish
By Lynn Margulis
Chelsea Green, $21.95
This collection of linked stories by internationally renowned evolutionist Lynn Margulis reveals science from the inside; its thrills, disappointments, and triumphs.
 15. Run
By Ann Patchett
Harper, $25.95
The highly anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of Bel Canto is an engrossing story of a family on one fateful night in Boston during which their secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed.
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Inkwell Recent Nonfiction Bestsellers
 1. Eat, Pray, Love
By Elizabeth Gilbert
Penguin, $15.00
A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.
 2. New England Soup Factory
By Marjorie Druker
Thomas Nelson, $24.99
Druker takes what people like to eat and turns it into a soup. The New England Soup Factory restaurant has won the Best of Boston award four times. This volume contains 100 of the best traditional and creative soup recipes, as well as a chapter on sandwiches and salads to accompany the soups.
 3. This I Believe
By Jay Allison
Holt Rinehart and Winston, $14.00
Featuring 80 Americans--from the famous to the unknown--this series of insightful observations completes the thought that the books title introduces. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they arrive at their own personal beliefs but also how they share them with others.
 4. 3 Cups of Tea
By Greg Mortenson
Penguin, $15.00
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individuals power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistans treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school.
 5. Musicophilia
By Oliver Sacks
Knopf, $26.00
Sacks' compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains. Here, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people.
 6. Boom!
By Tom Brokaw
Random House, $28.95
With the bestseller The Greatest Generation, Brokaw defined for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, the veteran newsman takes readers into the tumultuous decade of the 1960s--a decade of turbulence and change.
 7. The Nine
By Jeffrey Toobin
Doubleday, $27.95
Based on exclusive interviews with the Supreme Court Justices themselves and other insiders, The Nine is a timely and provocative state of the union about Americas most elite legal institution. As a CNN senior legal analyst, "New Yorker" staff writer, and bestselling author, no one is more superbly qualified on this topic than Jeffrey Toobin.
 8. Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar
By Thomas Cathcart
Abrams Image, $18.95
Heres a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It's Philosophy 101 for those who know not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously.
 9. Imperial Life in the Emerald City
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Vintage, $14.95
Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as absolutely brilliant, this national bestseller examines the numerous self-inflicted pitfalls, miscalculations, and blunders that had plagued the first year of the American occupation of Iraq.
 10. I Am America (So Can You!)
By Stephen Colbert
Grand Central, $26.99
In plain conversational language, not to mention the occasional grunt and/or whistle, the star of Comedy Centrals "Colbert Report" explains his take on the most pressing concerns of our culture: faith, family, politics--and hygiene.
 11. For One More Day
By Mitch Albom
Hyperion, $21.95
New from the author of the "New York Times" bestsellers Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Author Mitch Albom explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one?
 12. Intellectual Devotional
By David S. Kidder
Rodale, $24.00
This secular daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning is designed to inspire and invigorate the reader every day of the year.
 13. Dangerous Book For Boys
By Con Iggulden
Collins, $24.95
The bestselling book for boys from eight to 80 covers essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, and even answering the age-old question: what's the big deal with girls?
 14. Mayflower
By Nathaniel Philbrick
Penguin, $16.00
The startling story of the Plymouth Colony--from the flight to religious freedom to the war that ravaged New England--is told by the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award. Includes maps and illustrations.
 15. Never Give Up
By Tedy Bruschi
John Wiley and Sons, $24.95
Bruschi chronicles his journey as he returns to the NFL after suffering a potentially career-ending stroke.
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