Top Reads: Reza Aslan's ZEALOT Tops Amazon & New York Times' Best Seller Lists, Week Ending 8/11

Since there's no end-all-be-all 'best seller' list, BWW Books has rounded up both The New York Times' top sellers as well as Amazon's - providing you with your one-stop look at this week's top reads!

Reza Aslan can continue to thank Fox News for that infamous interview that provided his book, ZEALOT: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JESUS OF NAZARETH, with an unstoppable Internet following. For the second week in a row, ZEALOT topped Amazon's best seller list, as well as the non-fiction side of the New York Times' list.

J.K. Rowling's THE CUCKOO'S CALLING held on to the fiction side of The New York Times' fiction list, with Daniel Silva's THE ENGLISH GIRL taking the second spot.

The top 10 for fiction, nonfiction, and more are below!

The New York Times Best Sellers
Combined Print & E-Book Fiction

1) THE CUCKOO'S CALLING - J.K. Rowling
2) THE ENGLISH GIRL - Daniel Silva
3) INFERNO - Dan Brown
4) AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED - Khaled Hosseini
5) HIDDEN ORDER - Brad Thor
6) LIGHT OF THE WORLD - James Lee Burke
7) SECOND HONEYMOON - James Patterson and Howard Roughan
8) GONE GIRL - Gillian Flynn
9) PULSE - Gail McHugh
10) THE SILENT WIFE - A. S. A. Harrison

Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
1) ZEALOT: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JESUS OF NAZARETH - Reza Aslan
2) THIS TOWN - Mark Leibovich
3) LEAN IN - Sheryl Sandberg
4) PROOF OF HEAVEN - Eben Alexander
5) THE DOG LIVED (AND SO WILL I) - Teresa J. Rhyne
6) HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY - Phil Robertson and Mark Schlabach
7) ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK - Piper Kerman
8) SHIRLEY JONES - Shirley Jones with Wendy Leigh
9) BREAKPOINT - Jeff Stibel
10) UNBROKEN - Laura Hillenbrand

For the full list of New York Times Best Sellers, click here.

Amazon Top Best Sellers
1) ZEALOT: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JESUS OF NAZARETH - Reza Aslan
2) PUBLICATION MANUAL OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 6TH EDITION - American Psychological Association
3) THE CUCKOO'S CALLING - J.K. Rowling
4) DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS, 5TH EDITION: DSM-5 - American Psychiatric Association
5) DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: HARD LUCK - Jeff Kinney (Release: Nov. 5, 2013)
6) THE GREAT GATSBY - F. Scott Fitzgerald
7) MYMATHLAB: STUDENT ACCESS KIT - Hall H Pearson Education
8) A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, Books 1-4 - George R.R. Martin
9) THE HOUSE OF HADES (Heroes of Olympus, Book 4) - by Rick Riordan
10) LEAN IN - Sheryl Sandberg

For the the full list of Amazon's top best sellers, click here.

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