Washington Area Bestsellers
Sunday, July 9, 2006; Page BW11
| Paperback | ||
| Fiction | ||
| 1 | THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA(Anchor, $7.99) (Broadway, $13.95). By Lauren Weisberger.A haughty fashion magazine editor terrorizes her new assistant. | 13 |
| 2 | THE DA VINCI CODE(Anchor, 14.95; $7.99) By Dan Brown.A startling murder and ancient cryptograms spur a perilous hunt for the Cup of Christ. | 14 |
| 3 | ON THE WAY TO THE WEDDING(Avon, $7.99) By Julia Quinn.Gregory Bridgerton's bumpy path to true love marks the final tale in Quinn's Regency-era series. | 1 |
| 4 | ANGELS & DEMONS(Pocket Star, $9.99) (Washington Square, $15). By Dan Brown.The Vatican is threatened at the outset of a papal conclave. | 102 |
| 5 | THE LINCOLN LAWYER(Warner, $7.99) By Michael Connelly.A defense attorney, who works out of a Lincoln Town Car, lands a wealthy client. | 1 |
| 6 | A FISTFUL OF CHARMS(HarperTorch, $7.99) By Kim Harrison.This latest "Hollows" novel finds bounty hunter (and witch) Rachel Morgan helping her ex. | 1 |
| 7 | THE KITE RUNNER(Riverhead, $14) By Khaled Hosseini.An Afghan immigrant returns to his Taliban-ruled country to atone for a childhood betrayal. | 89 |
| 8 | THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER(Penguin, $14) By Kim Edwards.A doctor comes to regret telling his wife that one of their twins, a girl, died during delivery. | 2 |
| 9 | DANGEROUS TIDES(Jove, $7.99). By Christine Feehan Sparks fly between Libby, one of the magically gifted Drake sisters, and clever biochemist Ty Derrick. | 1 |
| 10 | ELEVEN ON TOP(St. Martin's, $7.99) By Janet Evanovich.Despite giving up her bounty hunter role, Stephanie Plum is dodging danger once again. | 2 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | 1776(Simon & Schuster, $18). By David McCullough Military campaigns and personal narratives tell the story of the first full year of the American Revolution. | 2 |
| 2 | AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: THE PLANETARY EMERGENCY OF GLOBAL WARMING AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT(Rodale, $21.95). By Al Gore | 5 |
| 3 | NIGHT(FSG, $9). By Elie Wiesel The Nobel laureate's terrifying account of his experience in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. | 32 |
| 4 | THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE(Back Bay, $14.95) By Malcolm Gladwell.A look at fads and their origins. | 79 |
| 5 | IN COLD BLOOD(Vintage, $14). By Truman Capote Its melding of crime reportage and fictional techniques made this account of a grisly murder an instant classic. | 35 |
| 6 | THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY(Vintage, $14.95) By Erik Larson.Serial killer H.H. Holmes preys on Chicago residents amid the bustle of the 1893 World's Fair. | 114 |
| 7 | PLACES IN BETWEEN(Harvest, $14). By Rory Stewart Walking across Afghanistan in the footsteps of the Mughal emperor, Babul, weeks after the Taliban's dislodging. | 2 |
| 8 | GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL(Norton, $16.95) By Jared Diamond.The impact of geography and the environment on the course of civilization. | 68 |
| 9 | THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls.A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and the unorthodox upbringing she survived. | 19 |
| 10 | COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SUCCEED(Penguin, $17). By Jared Diamond The fatal consequences of ecological mismanagement. | 25 |
| Hardcover | ||
| Fiction | ||
| 1 | TWELVE SHARP(St. Martin's, $26.95) By Janet Evanovich.Bungling bounty hunter Stephanie Plum puts aside job anxiety to find a missing child. | 2 |
| 2 | DANSE MACABRE(Berkley, $25.95) By Laurell K. Hamilton.The patter of little feet may be in vampire hunter Anita Blake's future, but who's the father? | 1 |
| 3 | COMING OUT(Delacorte, $20). By Danielle Steel Olympia Crawford Rubinstein's thriving family life is roiled by her daughters' invitation to a debutante ball. | 1 |
| 4 | BEACH ROAD(Little, Brown, $27.95) By James Patterson and Peter de Jonge.Asensational murder case jump-starts a struggling attorney's career. | 9 |
| 5 | COVER OF NIGHT(Ballantine, $25.95) By Linda Howard.A young widow's life is in jeopardy when a mysterious guest vanishes from herB&B. | 1 |
| 6 | THE HUSBAND(Bantam, $27). By Dean Koontz A gardener's wife is kidnapped, and the culprits (who watch his every move) demand $2 million in 60 hours. | 5 |
| 7 | BLACK ORDER(Morrow, $24.95). By James Rollins Sigma Force, a special-ops branch of the U.S. military, confronts a sinister scheme to control the origin of life. | 1 |
| 8 | AT RISK(Putnam, $21.95). By Patricia Cornwell A tenacious DA employs new DNA technology to solve a 20-year-old murder and bolster her run for governor. | 6 |
| 9 | THE BOOK OF THE DEAD(Warner, $25.95) By Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.FBI agent Pendergast vs. his fiendish brother: the final showdown. | 5 |
| 10 | CAPTIVE OF MY DESIRES(Pocket, $25) By Johanna Lindsey.A young woman enlists the aid of pirates to exact revenge on a roguish sea captain. | 2 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | THE ONE PERCENT DOCTRINE: DEEP INSIDE AMERICA'S PURSUIT OF ITS ENEMIES SINCE 9/11 (Simon & Schuster, $27). By Ron Suskind | 2 |
| 2 | MARLEY & ME: LIFE AND LOVE WITH THE WORLD'S WORST DOG(Morrow, $21.95) By John Grogan.For the love of an unruly Labrador. | 29 |
| 3 | MAYFLOWER: A STORY OF COURAGE, COMMUNITY, AND WAR(Viking, $29.95). By Nathaniel Philbrick The saga of Plymouth Colony, stripped of mythology. | 8 |
| 4 | GODLESS: THE CHURCH OF LIBERALISM (Crown Forum, $27.95). By Ann Coulter.The polemicist excoriates America's liberal traditions as anti-religious. | 4 |
| 5 | THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY(FSG, $30) By Thomas L. Friedman.Arevised and expanded edition. | 11 |
| 6 | WISDOM OF OUR FATHERS: LESSONS AND LETTERS FROM DAUGHTERS AND SONS (Random House, $22.95). By Tim Russert | 6 |
| 7 | FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING(Morrow, $25.95) By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | 63 |
| 8 | DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE: A MEMOIR OF WAR, DISASTERS, AND SURVIVAL(HarperCollins, $24.95) By Anderson Cooper.Musings from theCNN reporter. | 6 |
| 9 | HEAT: AN AMATEUR'S ADVENTURES AS KITCHEN SLAVE, LINE COOK, PASTA-MAKER AND APPRENTICE ... IN TUSCANY(Knopf, $25.95). By Bill Buford | 2 |
| 10 | SIX MINUTES TO FREEDOM: HOW A BAND OF HEROES DEFIED A DICTATOR AND HELPED FREE A NATION (Citadel, $23.95). By Kurt Muse and John Gilstrap | 1 |
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended July 2, 2006. The charts may not be reproduced without permission from Nielsen BookScan. Copyright ? 2006 by Nielsen BookScan. (Right-hand column of italicized numbers reflects weeks on this list, which premiered in Book World on Jan. 11, 2004. Advice, reference and self-help books appear on a separate, monthly list.)
