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Berkley/NAL is First Publisher to Hold #1 Spots on Both New York Times Trade and Mass Market Paperback Fiction Bestseller Lists as Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth is #1 Trade Title for a Second Straight Week and Nora Roberts' Blood Brothers Hits #1 in Mass Market

With The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (NAL) holding the top slot on The New York Times trade paperback fiction list for the second week in a row and Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts (Jove) rising to #1 on the mass market fiction list in its second week, this represents the first time that one publishing house has held both of these #1 positions since The New York Times divided its paperback fiction bestseller list into separate trade and mass market lists this past September. For the week of December 16th, the Berkley, NAL, and Signet imprints have racked up a combined six titles on the paperback lists. Congratulations to Leslie Gelbman and her Berkley/NAL team!

In addition to being the most recent Oprah Book Club selection, Follett's The Pillars of the Earth was also featured on Oprah's annual "Favorite Things" special this year. The Signet mass market edition of The Pillars of the Earth is currently #7 on the mass market paperback fiction list in its sixth week. And World Without End (Dutton), Follett's sequel to Pillars, is at #4 on The New York Times hardcover fiction list, in its eighth week.

The Age of Turbulence and The House of Mondavi are BusinessWeek's Best Business Books of 2007

The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan (The Penguin Press) and The House of Mondavi by Julia Flynn Siler (Gotham) were both among the ten books featured in the December 12th issue of BusinessWeek, which recognized the Best Business Books of 2007.

BusinessWeek says of The Age of Turbulence, which is still on The New York Times bestseller list after 11 weeks: "such well-informed musings offer much more food for thought than the usual Washington memoir."

Julia Flynn Siler's debut book made the New York Times Bestseller List back in July and received a great response from critics and readers alike. BusinessWeek raved: "a fascinating immigrant-family saga and unusual business narrative."

Three Penguin Group (USA) Titles Nominated for 2007 Borders Original Voices Awards

Three books from Penguin Group (USA) have been selected as nominees for the 12th annual Original Voices Awards: Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking: A Novel by Aoibheann Sweeney (The Penguin Press) was chosen in the fiction category. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW), which is also the bestselling debut title in DAW history, was also nominated in the fiction category; and Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Razorbill) was selected in the Young Adult/Independent Reader category.

The 2007 Borders Original Voices Awards recognize fresh, compelling and ambitious works from new and emerging talents of 2007 in fiction, nonfiction, young adult/independent reader and children's picture books. The finalists were chosen by both corporate and store employees via an online voting process, and the winners will be chosen by a committee of corporate staff members. These winners, announced in January, will each receive $5,000 in prize money from Borders and the books will be featured in the company's more than 1,100 stores across the country. Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner (Riverhead) was a previous winner of the Borders Original Voices Award.

The New York Times Bestseller Highlights for the Week of December 16th

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (NAL) holds at #1 on the trade fiction paperback list in its third week, while Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts (Jove) shoots up to #1 on the mass market fiction list for the week of December 2nd.

Here are more bestseller highlights for the week of December 16th:

On the hardcover fiction list, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) moves up to #3 in its 27th week; World Without End by Ken Follett (Dutton) rises to #4 in its eighth week; Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon (Viking) moves up to #7 in its fifth week; The Chase by Clive Cussler (G. P. Putnam's Sons) holds at #9 in its fourth week; Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell (G. P. Putnam's Sons) holds at #10 in its sixth week; and Creation in Death by J.D. Robb (G. P. Putnam's Sons) is at #15 in its fourth week.

On the hardcover nonfiction list, The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan (The Penguin Press) is at #9 in its eleventh week.

On the trade paperback fiction list, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) is at #4 in its 143rd week; and The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin) is at #7 in its 76th week.

On the mass market paperback fiction list, The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (Signet) is at #7 in its sixth week; Treasure of Khan by Clive and Dirk Cussler (Berkley) is at #10 in its fifth week; The Mist by Stephen King (Signet) is at #14 in its seventh week; and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Fallout by David Michaels (Berkley) is at #17 in its fourth week.

On the paperback nonfiction list, Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin), which was again featured on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on December 4th, is at #2 in its 45th week; Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin) is at #3 in its 44th week; The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (Penguin) is at #7 in its fourteenth week; This is Your Brain On Music by Daniel J. Levitin (Plume) is at #15 in its thirteenth week; and A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead) is at #20 in its eighth week.

On the advice, how-to and miscellaneous paperback list, The Book of Useless Information by Noel Botham and the Useless Information Society (Perigee) is at #10 in its seventh week.

In the young readers sector, on the children's picture book list, Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett (Putnam) is at #4 in its eleventh week. On the children's paperback list, The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (Speak) is at #6 in its eleventh week; and Miracle on 49th Street by Mike Lupica (Puffin) is at #10 in its third week. And on the children's series list, The Alex Rider Adventures by Anthony Horowitz (Philomel/Speak, hardcover and paperback) is at #5 in its 39th week.

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