Washington Area Bestsellers
Sunday, January 14, 2007; Page BW14
| Paperback | ||
| Fiction | ||
| 1 | THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (Penguin, $14). By Kim Edwards. A doctor regrets deceiving his wife about their twins' birth. | 26 |
| 2 | HONEYMOON(Warner, $7.99) By James Patterson & Howard Roughan. An FBI agent suspects the fiancée in a banker's death. | 9 |
| 3 | POINT BLANK(Jove, $7.99). By Catherine Coulter Married FBI agents Sherlock and Savich track a psychopath who kidnapped a popular comedian. | 1 |
| 4 | 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. | 2 |
| 5 | SWEETWATER CREEK(HarperCollins, $9.99) By Anne Rivers Siddons. A girl's coming-of-age tale set in South Carolina's lowlands. | 2 |
| 6 | GONE(Bantam, $7.99). By Lisa Gardner P.I. "Rainie" Conner vanishes on a rural Oregon road, leaving her family to find the truth. | 1 |
| 7 | THE HUNT CLUB(Signet, $9.99) By John Lescroart. P.I. Wyatt Hunt draws on his cadre of associates to help the police find a killer. | 1 |
| 8 | THE HOSTAGE(Jove, $9.99). By W.E.B. Griffin A diplomat's murder and the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal meld in this Charley Castillo thriller. | 1 |
| 9 | THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS(Grove, $14) By Kiran Desai. A judge's retirement is unsettled by political unrest in his Himalayan village. | 6 |
| 10 | SUN KISSED(Signet, $7.99) By Catherine Anderson. A rancher gets help from a dashing vet when her horses are poisoned. | 1 |
| 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. | 4 |
| 2 | THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS(Amistad, $14.95) By Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe. Gardner's erratic rise from poverty to business success. | 6 |
| 3 | DREAMS FROM MY FATHER (Three Rivers, $14.95). By Barack Obama A memoir of youth by the senator from Illinois. | 59 |
| 4 | RUNNING WITH SCISSORS(Picador USA, $14) (St. Martin's, $7.99). By Augusten Burroughs A memoir full of hilarious and unsettling scenes. | 41 |
| 5 | THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing. | 45 |
| 6 | A WALK IN THE WOODS: REDISCOVERING AMERICA ON THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL (Anchor, $7.99). By Bill Bryson | 1 |
| 7 | THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE(Back Bay, $14.95 ) By Malcolm Gladwell. Fads and their origins. | 55 |
| 8 | THE FAITH OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER (Tarcher, 12.95). By Stephen Mansfield Spirituality and war, with an emphasis on Iraq. | 1 |
| 9 | THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY (Vintage, $14.95). By Erik Larson. A killer preys on Chicago residents amid the 1893 World's Fair. | 127 |
| 10 | THE PLACES IN BETWEEN(Harvest, $14) By Rory Stewart. Walking across post-Taliban Afghanistan in the footsteps of a Mughal emperor. | 15 |
| Hardcover | ||
| Fiction | ||
| 1 | THE HUNTERS(Putnam, $26.95) By W.E.B. Griffin. Special agent Charley Castillo aims to solve a U.S. diplomat's murder in Uruguay. | 1 |
| 2 | CROSS(Little Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson. Forensic psychologist Alex Cross unwittingly finds clues to his wife's murder. | 7 |
| 3 | 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. | 14 |
| 4 | NEXT(HarperCollins, $27.95) By Michael Crichton. A near-future tale of genetic research and its scientific and moral implications. | 5 |
| 5 | HANNIBAL RISING(Delacorte, $27.95) By Thomas Harris. A prequel to "Red Dragon" that fleshes out Hannibal Lecter's early years. | 4 |
| 6 | SHADOW DANCE(Ballantine, $25.95) By Julie Garwood. An ancient Scottish family feud threatens Kate MacKenna's pending nuptials. | 2 |
| 7 | THE CAT WHO HAD 60 WHISKERS (Putnam, $23.95). By Lilian Jackson Braun. Arson, theft and a possible murder hit Moose County. | 1 |
| 8 | TREASURE OF KHAN(Putnam, $27.95) By Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler. Dirk Pitt and NUMA aim to stop a ruthless Mongolian tycoon. | 5 |
| 9 | STALEMATE(Bantam, $26). By Iris Johansen Forensic specialist Eve Duncan agrees to help a Colombian drug lord in exchange for information. | 2 |
| 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. | 4 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: THOUGHTS ON RECLAIMINGTHE AMERICAN DREAM (Crown, $25). By Barack Obama | 11 |
| 2 | ABOUT ALICE(Random House, $14.95) By Calvin Trillin. The veteran New Yorker writer reflects on the love of his life, his late wife, Alice. | 1 |
| 3 | PALESTINE PEACE NOT APARTHEID (Simon & Schuster, $27). By Jimmy Carter The broker of the Camp David Accords weighs in. | 6 |
| 4 | THE INNOCENT MAN: MURDER AND INJUSTICE IN A SMALL TOWN(Doubleday, $28.95) By John Grisham. A 1982 case of rape and murder. | 12 |
| 5 | THE GOD DELUSION(Houghton Mifflin, $27) By Richard Dawkins. A critical rejection of religious faith and the idea of intelligent design. | 7 |
| 6 | I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK: AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BEING A WOMAN (Knopf, $19.95). By Nora Ephron. Aging angst. | 22 |
| 7 | CHARACTER IS DESTINY: INSPIRING TRUE STORIES EVERY YOUNG PERSON SHOULD KNOW (Random House, $23.95). By John McCain et al. | 3 |
| 8 | FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING (Morrow, $25.95). By Steven D. Levitt et al. | 77 |
| 9 | THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY(FSG, $30) By Thomas L. Friedman. A revised edition. | 28 |
| 10 | MARLEY & ME: LIFE AND LOVE WITH THE WORLD'S WORST DOG(Morrow, $21.95) By John Grogan. For the love of an unruly Labrador. | 52 |
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Jan. 7, 2007. 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.)
