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Fearless eaters, Apple vs. Google, and more weekend reading
Plus: inside Rupert Murdoch’s empire and how the health care system failed one writer’s parents
Our latest book reviews:
Knocking On Heaven’s Door by Katy Butler, reviewed by Sarah Weinman Murdoch’s World: the Last of the Old Media Empires by David Folkenflik, reviewed by Jonathon GatehouseDogfight: How Apple And Google Went To War And Started A Revolution by Fred Vogelstein, reviewed by Chris Sorensen Son of a Certain Woman by Wayne Johnston, reviewed by Mike Doherty Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters and the Making of a New American Food Culture by Dana Goodyear, reviewed by Richard Warnica
| Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of November 29th, 2013)FictionNon-fiction LAST WEEK (WEEKS ON LIST) |
| 1 | THE LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton | 1 (6) |
| 2 | SYCAMORE ROW by John Grisham | 3 (4) |
| 3 | THE ORENDA by Joseph Boyden | 2 (11) |
| 4 | THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT by Amy Tan | (1) |
| 5 | DOCTOR SLEEP by Stephen King | 5 (9) |
| 6 | THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tart | 4 (3) |
| 7 | WE ARE WATER by Wally Lamb | 6 (4) |
| 8 | S. by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams | (1) |
| 9 | JUST ONE EVIL ACT by Elizabeth George | 7 (5) |
| 10 | MADDADDAM by Margaret Atwood | 8 (13) |
| 1 | AN ASTRONAUT’S GUIDE TO LIFE ON EARTH by Chris Hadfield | 1 (4) |
| 2 | THE WAR THAT ENDED PEACE by Margaret MacMillan | 4 (4) |
| 3 | I AM MALALA by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb | 3 (7) |
| 4 | ORR by Bobby Orr | 5 (5) |
| 5 | DAVID AND GOLIATH by Malcolm Gladwell | 2 (8) |
| 6 | KILLING JESUS by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard | 8 (8) |
| 7 | ALEX FERGUSON by Alex Ferguson | (1) |
| 8 | SC-COLOGY by Si Robertson | 9 (7) |
| 9 | THE GREAT ESCAPE by Ted Barris | 6 (3) |
| 10 | THE KING’S GRAVE by Philippa Langley and Michael Jones | (1) |
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