Snicket Rules; Ditto Tartt and Tolkein; Sleepers

By Carl Lennertz

No surprise: Snicket #9 goes to #1 for us, and Bad Beginning jumps to #2. All Snicket titles in-between are in the top 50; check stock … or stacks.

Secret History, in mass market and trade, is moving up on the national list and some local lists. Mass market is 0804111359; trade is 0449911519.

Tolkein mania about to heat up; books two and three taking off again.

Sleepers to watch:

• #26 Hardcover/Nonfiction - Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds, by Harold Bloom (Warner Books, $35.95, 446527173)

• #47 Hardcover/Nonfiction - The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World, by Ken Alder (Free Press, $27, 074321675X) -- 76 pick; I loved this book.
  

• #54 Hardcover/Fiction - Chasing Rumi, by Roger Housden (HarperSanFrancisco, $17.95, 60084456) -- 76 pick
  

New David Gray album in stores November 5!

Carl
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