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We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending September 25, 2011–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.
(Debuted at #1 in Children’s Interest) Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein: “Have you ever read a book with everything on it? Well, here it is, an amazing collection of never-before-published poems and drawings from the creator ofWhere the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up. You will say Hi-ho for the toilet troll, get tongue-tied with Stick-a-Tongue-Out-Sid, play a highly unusual horn, and experience the joys of growing down.” (September 2011)
(Debuted at #3 in Hardcover Nonfiction) Confidence Men by Ron Suskind: “The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. Until August 2007, when that confidence finally began to crumble.” (September 2011)
(Debuted at #8 in Hardcover Fiction) Train Dreams: A Novella by Denis Johnson: “Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.” (August 2011)