BookHampton's Top Five Best Selling Beach Reads

BookHampton bookseller Kim Lombardini took the time to talk through the summer's hottest selling books in both fiction and non-fiction.

The Top 5 Fiction Books are:

• Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel by David Rakoff.

"We're thrilled the Rakoff book is doing so well," Lombardini said, "He was a friend of BookHampton and he's missed." Rakoff, known for his work with This American Life, died of cancer in 2012.

·       & Sons: A Novel by David Gilbert

“Gilbert’s book has gotten great reviews,” Lombardini said, “It’ll make a great movie. It’s kind of lake a sideways J.D. Salinger.”

·       The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

·       The English Girl by Daniel Silva

·       My Education by Susan Choi

The Top 5 Non-Fiction Books are:

·       The Examined Life: How We Lose And Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz

“It’s really a must read,” Lombardini said.

·       Ava Gardner- The Secret Conversations by Ava Gardner and Peter Evans

·       Lean In: Women, Work and The Will To Lead by Sheyrl Sandberg

·      The Spy Who Loved by Clare Mulley

“The Spy Who Loved has become something of an underground bestseller,” Lombardini said, “We’ve been really surprised by how well it’s doing.”

·      Zealot by Reza Aslan

“We don’t even have Zealot in stock at the moment,” Lombardini said, “We’re completely sold out. I think that people were really upset by how he was treated on Fox News and wanted to read the book.”