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.	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.)