Washington Area Bestsellers
Sunday, February 4, 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. | 29 |
| 2 | HONEYMOON(Warner, $7.99) By James Patterson & Howard Roughan. An FBI agent suspects the fiancée in a banker's death. | 12 |
| 3 | POINT BLANK(Jove, $7.99). By Catherine Coulter Married FBI agents Sherlock and Savich track a psychopath who kidnapped a popular comedian. | 4 |
| 4 | THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS(Grove, $14) By Kiran Desai. A judge's retirement is disrupted by political unrest in his Himalayan village. | 9 |
| 5 | 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. | 4 |
| 6 | THE KITE RUNNER(Riverhead, $14) By Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan returns to his Taliban-ruled country to atone for a past betrayal. | 110 |
| 7 | SWEETWATER CREEK(HarperCollins, $9.99) By Anne Rivers Siddons. A girl's coming-of-age tale set in South Carolina's lowlands. | 5 |
| 8 | THE CHILDREN OF MEN(Vintage, $13.95) By P.D. James. A near-future tale of an infertile human race coping with a collapsing civilization. | 1 |
| 9 | IRISH HEARTS(Silhouette, $14.95) By Nora Roberts. The romance novellas "Iris Thoroughbred" and "Irish Rose" in one volume. | 2 |
| 10 | DEATH DANCE(Pocket, $9.99). By Linda Fairstein A ballerina's grisly murder at the opera takes DA Alex Cooper backstage at Lincoln Center. | 1 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY(HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95) By Sidney Poitier. The esteemed actor reflects. | 1 |
| 2 | DREAMS FROM MY FATHER (Three Rivers, $14.95). By Barack Obama A memoir of youth by the senator from Illinois. | 62 |
| 3 | THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS(Amistad, $14.95) By Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe. Gardner's erratic rise from poverty to business success. | 9 |
| 4 | THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing. | 48 |
| 5 | THE IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT: THE WAY FORWARD--A NEW APPROACH(Vintage, $10.95) James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, et al. | 7 |
| 6 | THE WEATHER MAKERS: HOW MAN IS CHANGING THE CLIMATE AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR LIFE ON EARTH(Grove, $15). By Tim Flannery | 1 |
| 7 | THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY (Back Bay, $14.95 ). By the Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell. "Unteachable" students' joint diary. | 3 |
| 8 | RUNNING WITH SCISSORS(Picador USA, $14) (St. Martin's, $7.99). By Augusten Burroughs A memoir full of hilarious and unsettling scenes. | 44 |
| 9 | THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE(Back Bay, $14.95 ) By Malcolm Gladwell. Fads and their origins. | 57 |
| 10 | THE PLACES IN BETWEEN(Harvest, $14) By Rory Stewart. Walking across post-Taliban Afghanistan in the footsteps of a Mughal emperor. | 18 |
| Hardcover | ||
| Fiction | ||
| 1 | PLUM LOVIN'(St. Martin's, $16.95) By Janet Evanovich. Hunky Diesel returns with an intriguing offer for bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. | 3 |
| 2 | WHITE LIES(Putnam, $24.95) By Jayne Ann Krentz. A plot to take over the Arcane Society surfaces in a paranormal romance. | 1 |
| 3 | FOR ONE MORE DAY(Hyperion, $21.95) By Mitch Albom. Charley Benetto, mourning his mother's death, is granted one final day with her. | 17 |
| 4 | LORDS OF THE NORTH(HarperCollins, $25.95) By Bernard Cornwell. A.D. 878: The Saxon Uhtred of Bebbanburg returns in a swashbuckling tale. | 1 |
| 5 | DUST(Viking, $25.95). By Martha Grimes World War II codebreakers and Henry James's novels are at the hub of this Richard Jury mystery. | 2 |
| 6 | YOU SUCK: A LOVE STORY(Morrow, $21.95) By Christopher Moore. A droll tale of two teens in love--and they're vampires in a paranormal mess. | 2 |
| 7 | CROSS(Little Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson. Forensic psychologist Alex Cross unwittingly finds clues to his wife's murder. | 10 |
| 8 | BREAKPOINT(Putnam, $25.95) By Richard A. Clarke. Technology centers are targeted by terrorists opposed to biotechnology. | 1 |
| 9 | NEXT(HarperCollins, $27.95) By Michael Crichton. A near-future tale of genetic research and its scientific and moral implications. | 8 |
| 10 | SACRED GAMES(HarperCollins, $27.95) By Vikram Chandra. An epic tale of organized crime and one savvy gangster in Mumbai, India. | 1 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | WHAT A PARTY!: MY LIFE AMONG DEMOCRATS: PRESIDENTS ... AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS (Thomas Dunne, $24.95). By Terry McAuliffe | 1 |
| 2 | THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: THOUGHTS ON RECLAIMINGTHE AMERICAN DREAM (Crown, $25). By Barack Obama | 14 |
| 3 | PALESTINE PEACE NOT APARTHEID (Simon & Schuster, $27). By Jimmy Carter The broker of the Camp David Accords weighs in. | 9 |
| 4 | POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY: AMERICA IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1776 TO THE PRESENT (Norton, $35). By Michael B. Oren | 1 |
| 5 | SUPREME CONFLICT(Penguin Press, $27.95) By Jan Crawford Greenburg. A reporter's look at efforts to shift the Supreme Court to the right. | 1 |
| 6 | TOO SOON TO SAY GOODBYE (Random House, $17.95). By Art Buchwald The Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist's last book. | 2 |
| 7 | THE INNOCENT MAN: MURDER AND INJUSTICE IN A SMALL TOWN(Doubleday, $28.95) By John Grisham. A 1982 case of rape and murder. | 15 |
| 8 | 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. | 4 |
| 9 | FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING (Morrow, $25.95). By Steven D. Levitt et al. | 79 |
| 10 | THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY(FSG, $30) By Thomas L. Friedman. A revised edition. | 31 |
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Jan. 28, 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. The advice/miscellaneous list to the right reflects sales from Jan. 1-28, 2007.)
