Washington Area Bestsellers
Sunday, December 3, 2006; Page BW13
| Paperback | ||
| Fiction | ||
| 1 | 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. | 23 |
| 2 | THE CELL(Pocket Star, $9.99). By Stephen King A mind-altering pulse sent simultaneously to all mobile phones in America turns its recipients into zombies. | 1 |
| 3 | VALLEY OF SILENCE(Jove, $7.99). By Nora Roberts The conclusion of the "Circle Trilogy" finds six warriors battling the minions of the vampire Lilith. | 4 |
| 4 | THE AMBLER WARNING(St. Martin's, $9.99) By Robert Ludlum.A covert U.S. operative is detained in a government hospital for reasons unknown. | 4 |
| 5 | THE TENTH CIRCLE(Washington Square, $15) By Jodi Picoult.Graphic art illustrates this "Purgatorio" tale of a family coping with a daughter's rape. | 5 |
| 6 | THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS(Grove, $14) By Kiran Desai.A retired judge, his granddaughter and cook cope with political unrest in a Himalayan village. | 3 |
| 7 | THE LIGHTHOUSE(Vintage, $13.95). By P.D. James Commander Dalgliesh is dispatched to Combe Island, an isolated retreat for the well-to-do, where murder is afoot. | 4 |
| 8 | FOREVER ODD(Bantam, $7.99). By Dean Koontz Odd Thomas, who can see the dead, is "asked" for help by the ghost of his father's best friend, recently murdered. | 3 |
| 9 | THE KITE RUNNER(Riverhead, $14). By Khaled Hosseini An Afghan immigrant returns to his Taliban-ruled country to atone for a childhood betrayal. | 105 |
| 10 | REBELLION(Silhouette, $7.99). By Nora Roberts The Scottish-English conflict of the 18th century finds a parallel in the romance between Serena and Brigham. | 1 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | RUNNING WITH SCISSORS(Picador USA, $14) (St. Martin's, $7.99). By Augusten Burroughs A memoir chock-full of hilarious and unsettling moments. | 36 |
| 2 | FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS(Bantam, $14; $7.99) By James Bradley with Ron Powers.The life of Bradley's father, John, who served in the Pacific in WWII. | 8 |
| 3 | THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls.A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and the unorthodox upbringing she survived. | 40 |
| 4 | THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS(Amistad, $14.95) By Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe.Gardner's erratic rise from impoverished youth to prosperous broker. | 1 |
| 5 | DREAMS FROM MY FATHER(Three Rivers, $14.95) By Barack Obama.A memoir of a challenging, often lonely youth by the freshman senator from Illinois. | 54 |
| 6 | TEAM OF RIVALS: THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN(Simon & Schuster, $19.95) By Doris Kearns Goodwin.Presidential finesse. | 9 |
| 7 | 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. | 53 |
| 8 | TEACHER MAN: A MEMOIR(Scribner, $15) By Frank McCourt.The author of "Angela's Ashes" recounts his tenure in the NYC public school system. | 7 |
| 9 | 1776(Simon & Schuster, $18). By David McCullough Military campaigns and personal narratives tell the story of the first full year of the American Revolution. | 21 |
| 10 | 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. | 126 |
| Hardcover | ||
| Fiction | ||
| 1 | CROSS(Little Brown, $27.99). By James Patterson Hunting for a serial killer/rapist, forensic psychologist Alex Cross inadvertently finds clues to his wife's murder. | 2 |
| 2 | FOR ONE MORE DAY(Hyperion, $21.95) By Mitch Albom.Charley Benetto is granted one final day with his mother, whose recent death left him devastated. | 9 |
| 3 | DEAR JOHN(Warner, $24.99). By Nicholas Sparks The budding romance between an aimless soldier and a conscientious college student is altered by 9/11. | 4 |
| 4 | NATURE GIRL(Knopf, $25.95). By Carl Hiaasen Offended by a real estate sales call, a woman takes the telemarketer on a wild Everglades adventure. | 2 |
| 5 | WILD FIRE(Warner, $26.99). By Nelson DeMille Terrorists plot to force a U.S. nuclear strike in the Middle East by detonating nuclear bombs on U.S. soil. | 3 |
| 6 | THE SHAPE SHIFTER(HarperCollins, $26.95) By Tony Hillerman.Startling new clues in an unsolved case lure Lt. Joe Leaphorn out of retirement. | 1 |
| 7 | THE COLLECTORS(Warner, $26.99). By David Baldacci The Camel Club reunites to solve a murder at the Library of Congress, which reveals a rogue CIA agent's treachery. | 6 |
| 8 | LISEY'S STORY(Scribner, $28). By Stephen King The widow of a celebrated horror writer finds sorting through her husband's papers cathartic and revelatory. | 5 |
| 9 | SANTA CRUISE(Scribner, $22). By Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark.A yuletide charity cruise is thwarted by dangerous criminals. | 2 |
| 10 | AGAINST THE DAY(Penguin Press, $35) By Thomas Pynchon.An eclectic cast become snared in the mad rush of events preceding the cataclysm of WWI. | 1 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: THOUGHTS ON RECLAIMING THE AMERICAN DREAM(Crown, $25) By Barack Obama.The Illinois senator's social contract. | 6 |
| 2 | THE INNOCENT MAN: MURDER AND INJUSTICE IN A SMALL TOWN(Doubleday, $28.95) By John Grisham.A1982 case of rape and murder. | 7 |
| 3 | STATE OF DENIAL: BUSH AT WAR, PART III (Simon & Schuster, $30). By Bob Woodward New details on the administration's war plans in Iraq. | 9 |
| 4 | CULTURE WARRIOR(Broadway, $26) By Bill O'Reilly.Hot-button cultural issues pepper this take on the struggle between the left and the right. | 9 |
| 5 | MARLEY & ME: LIFE AND LOVE WITH THE WORLD'S WORST DOG(Morrow, $21.95) By John Grogan. For the love of an unruly Labrador. | 47 |
| 6 | I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK: AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BEING A WOMAN (Knopf, $19.95). By Nora Ephron.Aging angst. | 17 |
| 7 | THE GOD DELUSION(Houghton Mifflin, $27) By Richard Dawkins.A critical rejection of religious faith, its perceived intolerance and the idea of intelligent design. | 4 |
| 8 | THUNDERSTRUCK(Crown, $25.95). By Erik Larson How wireless communication burst onto the public stage with the 1910 manhunt for murderer H.H. Crippen. | 4 |
| 9 | PALESTINE: PEACE NOT APARTHEID (Simon & Schuster, $27). By Jimmy Carter.The former president, broker of the Camp David Accords, weighs in. | 1 |
| 10 | THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID: A MEMOIR(Broadway, $25). By Bill Bryson A trip down memory lane by a child of the 1950s. | 4 |
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Nov. 26, 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. The advice/miscellaneous list below reflects sales from 10/30 to 11/26.)
