Sunday, February 11, 2007
| Paperback | ||
| Fiction | ||
| 1 | THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (Penguin, $14). By Kim Edwards. A doctor regrets deceiving his wife about their twins' birth. | 30 |
| 2 | THE WINTER LODGE(Mira, $7.99) By Susan Wiggs. A fire changes the life of bakery owner Jenny Majesky. Bonus recipe included. | 1 |
| 3 | IRISH DREAMS(Silhouette, $7.99) By Nora Roberts. Romance novellas of the Emerald Isle: "Irish Rebel" and "Sullivan's Woman." | 1 |
| 4 | THE TEMPLAR LEGACY(Ballantine, $7.99) By Steve Berry. An ex-Justice agent spars with a lethal Templar order seeking a lost archive. | 1 |
| 5 | THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS(Grove, $14) By Kiran Desai. A judge's retirement is disrupted by political unrest in his Himalayan village. | 10 |
| 6 | HONEYMOON(Warner, $7.99) By James Patterson & Howard Roughan. An FBI agent suspects the fiancée in a banker's death. | 13 |
| 7 | THE KITE RUNNER(Riverhead, $14) By Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan returns to his Taliban-ruled country to atone for a past betrayal. | 111 |
| 8 | ALL NIGHT LONG(Jove, $7.99) By Jayne Ann Krentz. A romantic thriller involving murder and a senator's White House ambitions. | 1 |
| 9 | BLOOD BOUND(Ace, $7.99). By Patricia Briggs Mercedes, a shapeshifter (she can transform into a coyote at will), agrees to help a vampire friend. | 1 |
| 10 | THE HOUSE(Dell, $7.99). By Danielle Steel A client's bequest offers a harried attorney the chance to renovate a grand San Francisco manor. | 1 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY(HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95) By Sidney Poitier. The esteemed actor reflects. | 2 |
| 2 | DREAMS FROM MY FATHER (Three Rivers, $14.95). By Barack Obama A memoir by the junior senator from Illinois. | 63 |
| 3 | THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS(Amistad, $14.95) By Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe. Gardner's erratic rise from poverty to business success. | 10 |
| 4 | THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing. | 49 |
| 5 | EAT PRAY LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA(Penguin, $15). By Elizabeth Gilbert | 1 |
| 6 | RUNNING WITH SCISSORS(Picador USA, $14) (St. Martin's, $7.99). By Augusten Burroughs A memoir full of hilarious and unsettling scenes. | 45 |
| 7 | THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY (Back Bay, $14.95 ). By the Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell. "Unteachable" students' joint diary. | 4 |
| 8 | NIGHT(FSG, $9). By Elie Wiesel The terrifying account of his experience in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. | 49 |
| 9 | THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE(Back Bay, $14.95 ) By Malcolm Gladwell. Fads and their origins. | 58 |
| 10 | THE IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT: THE WAY FORWARD--A NEW APPROACH(Vintage, $10.95) James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, et al. | 8 |
| 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. | 4 |
| 2 | THE ALEXANDRIA LINK(Ballantine, $25.95) By Steve Berry. A bookseller (and ex-spy) holds the clue to locating the lost library of Alexandria. | 1 |
| 3 | DEEP STORM(Doubleday, $24.95) By Lincoln Child. A lethal virus attacks a deep water U.S. military site searching for Atlantis. | 1 |
| 4 | HANNIBAL RISING(Delacorte, $27.95) By Thomas Harris. A prequel to "Red Dragon" that fleshes out Hannibal Lecter's early years. | 7 |
| 5 | HIDE(Bantam, $25). By Lisa Gardner The discovery of mummified corpses in a buried chamber at a mental hospital launches this thriller. | 1 |
| 6 | FOR ONE MORE DAY(Hyperion, $21.95) By Mitch Albom. Charley Benetto, mourning his mother's death, is granted one final day with her. | 18 |
| 7 | LORDS OF THE NORTH(HarperCollins, $25.95) By Bernard Cornwell. A.D. 878: The Saxon Uhtred of Bebbanburg returns in a swashbuckling tale. | 2 |
| 8 | NEXT(HarperCollins, $27.95) By Michael Crichton. A near-future tale of genetic research and its scientific and moral implications. | 9 |
| 9 | CROSS(Little Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson. Forensic psychologist Alex Cross unwittingly finds clues to his wife's murder. | 11 |
| 10 | LOVE & LIES(Morrow, $23.95) By Kimberla Lawson Roby. Rev. Curtis Black finds his wife, Charlotte, full of angst. | 1 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: THOUGHTS ON RECLAIMINGTHE AMERICAN DREAM (Crown, $25). By Barack Obama | 15 |
| 2 | WHAT A PARTY!: MY LIFE AMONG DEMOCRATS: PRESIDENTS ... AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS (Thomas Dunne, $24.95). By Terry McAuliffe | 2 |
| 3 | THE FIGHT FOR JERUSALEM: RADICAL ISLAM, THE WEST, AND THE FUTURE OF THE HOLY CITY (Regnery, $27.95). By Dore Gold | 1 |
| 4 | POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY: AMERICA IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1776 TO THE PRESENT (Norton, $35). By Michael B. Oren | 2 |
| 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. | 2 |
| 6 | PALESTINE PEACE NOT APARTHEID (Simon & Schuster, $27). By Jimmy Carter The broker of the Camp David Accords weighs in. | 10 |
| 7 | THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY(FSG, $30) By Thomas L. Friedman. A revised edition. | 32 |
| 8 | THE INNOCENT MAN: MURDER AND INJUSTICE IN A SMALL TOWN(Doubleday, $28.95) By John Grisham. A 1982 case of rape and murder. | 16 |
| 9 | 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. | 5 |
| 10 | THE GOD DELUSION(Houghton Mifflin, $27) By Richard Dawkins. A critical rejection of religious faith and the idea of intelligent design. | 10 |
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Feb. 4, 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.)
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