The St. Mark's Book Shop bestseller list, annotated

The East Village may have gotten a little fancy, but thrift still trumps literariness, if one is to measure purely by the two best-selling paperbacks at St. Mark's Bookshop, the brainy bookstore at 9th Street and Third Ave.

Two of Stieg Larsson's inescapable novels—The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire—are Nos. 1 and 3 on the list, respectively. More

By Zachary Woolfe and Tom McGeveran

August 6, 2010 3:05 pm