These books likely to ring up lots of sales
Following are books that, just out in hardback or recently reissued in paper, should be hot sellers through the summer (provided by Julie Smith, head book buyer, Auntie’s Books):
“My Life” (Knopf, 992 pages, $35) by Bill Clinton: The ex-president reveals all — or at least some.
“Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories” (Doubleday, 233 pages, $23.95) by Chuck Palahniuk. Real life as the “Fight Club” author sees it.
“Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Linen” (Little Brown, 272 pages, $24.95) by David Sedaris. More humor essays by the author of “Me Talk Pretty One Day.”
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” (Harvest Books, 560 pages, $14 paper) by Audrey Niffenegger: A Chicago librarian becomes unstuck in time.
“Benjamin Franklin — An American Life” (Simon & Schuster, 608 pages, $30) by Walter Isaacson: The secret life of the most interesting Founding Father.
“The Rule of Four” (Dial Press, 384 pages, $24) by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason: Four college students have ties to a 15th-century manuscript that holds clues to the location of a buried treasure.
“Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers” (W.W. Norton, 304 pages, $13.95 paper) by Mary Roach: The vast and various ways we deal with the detritus of death.
“The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss” (Rodale Press, 310 pages, $24.95) by Arthur Agaston: The search for a way to lose weight continues.
“House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties” (Scribner, 368 pages, $26) by Craig Unger: The title pretty much says it all.
“Plan of Attack” (Simon & Schuster, 480 pages, $28) by Bob Woodward: The Washington Post editor takes a detailed look at the events leading up to the Iraqi War.
“Song of Susannah: The Dark Tower, Book 6” (Grant/Scribner, 432 pages, $30) by Stephen King: The King of Horror’s saga continues.
“On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense” (Simon & Schuster, 320 pages, $25) by David Brooks: The author of “Bobos in Paradise” offers a hopeful view of the future.
“Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination” (Viking Press, 320 pages, $25.95) by Helen Fielding: The author of “Bridget Jones’s Diary” creates a secret superspy for the 21st century.
“Truth and Beauty: A Friendship” (HarperCollins, 257 pages, $23.95) by Ann Patchett: The author of “Bel Canto” relates her friendship with the late Lucy Grealy, author of “Autobiography of a Face.”
“Eventide” (Knopf, 320 pages, $24.95) by Kent Haruf: Haruf continues the stories of characters he created in his acclaimed novel “Plainsong.”
“The Secret Life of Bees” (Penguin, 336 pages, $14 paper) by Sue Ann Monk: A young woman searches for a mother figure during the strife-torn 1960s.
“The Lovely Bones” (Back Bay Books, 352 pages, $13.95) by Alice Sebold: A young girl narrates the story of her murder and how the crime ends up affecting her family.