Washington Area Bestsellers

	Paperback
	Fiction
1	THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (Penguin, $14). By Kim Edwards. A doctor regrets deceiving his wife about their twins' birth.	25
2	SLOW BURN(Ballantine, $7.99). By Julie Garwood Kate MacKenna copes with her mother's death, a grand inheritance and a killer with murky motives.	1
3	HONEYMOON(Warner, $7.99) By James Patterson & Howard Roughan. An FBI agent suspects the fiancée in a banker's death.	8
4	SWEETWATER CREEK(HarperCollins, $9.99) By Anne Rivers Siddons. A girl's coming-of-age tale set in South Carolina's lowlands.	1
5	S IS FOR SILENCE(Berkley, $7.99). By Sue Grafton P.I. Kinsey Millhone looks into the case of Violet Sullivan, a mother who vanished 34 years earlier.	4
6	THE TENTH CIRCLE(Washington Square, $15) By Jodi Picoult. Graphic art illustrates this "Purgatorio" tale of a family coping with a rape.	9
7	THE LAST TEMPLAR(Signet, $9.99) By Raymond Khoury. Modern-day zealots of the Knights Templar hunt for a treasure from 1291.	3
8	THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS(Grove, $14) By Kiran Desai. A judge's retirement is unsettled by political unrest in his Himalayan village.	5
9	THE KITE RUNNER(Riverhead, $14) By Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan returns to his Taliban-ruled country to atone for a past betrayal.	108
10	THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN (Hyperion, $12). By Mitch Albom A parable on how no good deed is too small.	5
	Nonfiction/General
1	THE IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT: THE WAY FORWARD--A NEW APPROACH(Vintage, $10.95) James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, et al.	3
2	THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS(Amistad, $14.95) By Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe. Gardner's erratic rise from poverty to business success.	5
3	RUNNING WITH SCISSORS(Picador USA, $14) (St. Martin's, $7.99). By Augusten Burroughs A memoir full of hilarious and unsettling scenes.	40
4	DREAMS FROM MY FATHER (Three Rivers, $14.95). By Barack Obama A memoir of youth by the senator from Illinois.	58
5	THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing.	44
6	FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS(Bantam, $14; $7.99) By James Bradley with Ron Powers. The life of Bradley's father, John, who served in World War II.	12
7	AMERICA (THE BOOK): A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO DEMOCRACY INACTION(Warner, $15.99) By Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" staff	7
8	TEAM OF RIVALS: THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN(Simon & Schuster, $19.95) By Doris Kearns Goodwin. Presidential finesse.	13
9	1776(Simon & Schuster, $18) By David McCullough. The first full year of the American Revolution through personal narratives.	25
10	THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE(Back Bay, $14.95 ) By Malcolm Gladwell. Fads and their origins.	54
	Hardcover
	Fiction
1	FOR ONE MORE DAY(Hyperion, $21.95) By Mitch Albom. Charley Benetto, crushed by his mother's death, is granted one final day with her.	13
2	CROSS(Little Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson. Forensic psychologist Alex Cross unwittingly finds clues to his wife's murder.	6
3	NEXT(HarperCollins, $27.95) By Michael Crichton. A near-future tale of genetic research and its scientific and moral implications.	4
4	HANNIBAL RISING(Delacorte, $27.95) By Thomas Harris. A prequel to "Red Dragon" that fleshes out Hannibal Lecter's early years.	3
5	SHADOW DANCE(Ballantine, $25.95) By Julie Garwood. An ancient Scottish family feud threatens Kate MacKenna's pending nuptials.	1
6	STALEMATE(Bantam, $26). By Iris Johansen Forensic specialist Eve Duncan agrees to help a Colombian drug lord in exchange for information.	1
7	TREASURE OF KHAN(Putnam, $27.95) By Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler. Dirk Pitt and NUMA aim to stop a ruthless Mongolian tycoon.	4
8	DEAR JOHN(Warner, $24.99). By Nicholas Sparks A romance between an aimless soldier and a conscientious college student is altered by 9/11.	8
9	WILD FIRE(Warner, $26.99). By Nelson DeMille Terrorists plot to detonate nuclear bombs in the U.S. to trigger a U.S. strike in the Middle East.	7
10	THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE(Touchstone, $25.95) By Philippa Gregory. The deceit of Jane Boleyn, sister-in-law of Anne Boleyn, at Henry VIII's court.	3
	Nonfiction/General
1	THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: THOUGHTS ON RECLAIMINGTHE AMERICAN DREAM (Crown, $25). By Barack Obama	10
2	PALESTINE PEACE NOT APARTHEID (Simon & Schuster, $27). By Jimmy Carter The broker of the Camp David Accords weighs in.	5
3	THE INNOCENT MAN: MURDER AND INJUSTICE IN A SMALL TOWN(Doubleday, $28.95) By John Grisham. A 1982 case of rape and murder.	11
4	MARLEY & ME: LIFE AND LOVE WITH THE WORLD'S WORST DOG(Morrow, $21.95) By John Grogan. For the love of an unruly Labrador.	51
5	I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK: AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BEING A WOMAN (Knopf, $19.95). By Nora Ephron. Aging angst.	21
6	THE GOD DELUSION(Houghton Mifflin, $27) By Richard Dawkins. A critical rejection of religious faith and the idea of intelligent design.	6
7	FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING (Morrow, $25.95). By Steven D. Levitt et al.	76
8	CULTURE WARRIOR(Broadway, $26) By Bill O'Reilly. Cultural issues pepper this take on the struggle between the left and the right.	13
9	STATE OF DENIAL: BUSH AT WAR, PART III (Simon & Schuster, $30). By Bob Woodward New details on the administration's Iraq war plans.	13
10	THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY(FSG, $30) By Thomas L. Friedman. A revised edition.	27

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Dec. 31, 2006. The charts may not be reproduced without permission from Nielsen BookScan. Copyright © 2007 by Nielsen BookScan. (The 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.)