Best Seller Read-Alikes for the Week of September 16th

Can’t wait to get your hands on the latest best-seller, but the hold list is too long? To tide you over, every week we’ll offer similar titles and authors to the week’s fiction and nonfiction best sellers.

Fiction

At #1 on the best seller's list for fiction is Mitch Albom's The Time Keeper. Written in the same leisurely and sparse style as his other fables for the modern world (The Five People You Meet in Heaven, For One More Day), The Time Keeper centers on Father Time - the inventor of the world's first clock some six thousand years ago and subsequently banished to a cave for eternity - who is given one last chance at redemption. He must teach two earthly people the true meaning of time, in a journey that leads him to a teenage girl who is about to give up on life and a wealthy businessman who wants to live forever.

Authors and books similar to The Time Keeper include:

Richard Paul Evans -  Evans is an inspirational author of Christian-themed novels for adults and kids. His on-going Walk series begins with The Walk, which begins when Seattle ad executive, Alan Christoffersen loses everything -  his job, his home and his wife. Bereft, he decides to take a walk, heading for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life.

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffery Zaslow - Pausch, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Jeffery Zaslow - The contributing author of The Last Lecture, Zaslow has written other inspirational fiction and nonfiction novels. Most recently, he contributed to Gabby Gifford's biography, Gabby. On his own, Zaslow wrote The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Fourty-Year Friendship  and The Magic Room: A Story About the Love We Wish for our Daughters. 

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Nonfiction

At #1 on the nonfiction best seller's list is the controversial first-person account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL by Mark Owen and Kevin Mauer. Written pseudonymously, the book's author was revealed to be former Navy SEAL Mark Bissonnette, and the book begins with his early training and details the planning and execution of the raid on the bin Laden compound in Pakistan. The books has come under heavy criticism from the Defense Department, which has threatened legal action against Bissonnette for allegedly breaching a nondisclosure agreement. Bissonnette's account of the raid also contradicts many details from the official U.S. description of the mission.

Books similar to No Easy Day include:

SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper by Howard Wasdin (359.0092 WAS) - A Navy SEAL Team Six sniper reveals how he became an elite soldier while recounting the dramatic mission that nearly cost him his life, offering insider perspectives on his team's extensive training process at the Marine's Scout Sniper School.

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle (956.70443 KYL)- A former member of Navy SEAL Team 3 describes his life as a father and husband, and as the serviceman with the most confirmed sniper kills in the history of the United States military while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL by Eric Greitens (359.984 GRE) - The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice.

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If you'd like more recommendations, stop by the Recommendations Desk on the first floor, check out NoveList Plus on the library's website, or visit W. 11th & Bluff next week for more reading suggestions. Or submit a Personal Recommendations request, and we'll create a reading list just for you!

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Spotlight: Your Bookshelf

This week we're going to try something a little different, and ask you, the readers of Carnegie-Stout Public Library, to tell us what great books you're reading. There's not enough time in any given week for any one person to get to every great book, so a recommendation from a trusted source is always helpful! So what're you reading Dubuque?

Leave a comment here, or on Facebook, with the title and author of a book you're reading now, or read recently and why you think others might like to read it.

Think of it as an impromptu online book club! We'll gather the titles together and add them to a Pinterest Board (like the one we do for our own books) so that all the suggestions are in one place. If you're a Dubuquer on Pinterest, you can follow the board here: pinterest.com/cspl/what-dubuque-is-reading

Please stop by the Recommendations Desk on the first floor, check out NoveList Plus on the library's website, or visit W. 11th & Bluff next week for more reading suggestions. Or submit a Personal Recommendations request, and we'll create a reading list just for you!