Washington Area Bestsellers

	Paperback
	Fiction
1	THE ROAD(Vintage, $14.95) By Cormac McCarthy. A man and his son travel to the sea in a charred, post-apocalyptic world.	3
2	AT RISK(Berkley, $7.99). By Patricia Cornwell A tenacious DA employs new DNA science to solve a 20-year-old murder and bolster a run for governor.	2
3	HOT STUFF(St. Martin's, $7.99) By Janet Evanovich & Leanne Banks. A new series introducing sassy Irish barkeep Cate Madigan.	2
4	GONE(Ballantine, $7.99). By Jonathan Kellerman Alex Delaware probes an acting studio after a student (who faked her own abduction) is killed.	3
5	TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE(Pocket, $7.99) By Mary Higgins Clark. Twins' telepathic link is a blessing when only one returns after a kidnapping.	4
6	SUITE FRANÇAISE(Vintage, $14.95) By Irène Némirovsky. A WWII-era, unfinished novel exploring French collaboration with the Germans.	1
7	THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS(Grove, $14) By Kiran Desai. A judge's retirement is disrupted by political unrest in his Himalayan village.	20
8	THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (Penguin, $14). By Kim Edwards. A doctor regrets deceiving his wife about their twins' birth.	40
9	JUDGE & JURY(Warner, $9.99) By James Patterson and Andrew Gross. An assassin derails a Mafia boss's high-profile trial.	7
10	THE HARD WAY(Dell, $7.99). By Lee Child Former army MP Jack Reacher agrees to help a mercenary find his kidnapped wife and daughter.	3
	Nonfiction/General
1	BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING(Back Bay, $15.99) By Malcolm Gladwell. Behind our snap decisions.	2
2	THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY(HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95) By Sidney Poitier. The esteemed actor reflects.	12
3	THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing.	59
4	EAT PRAY LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA(Penguin, $15). By Elizabeth Gilbert	11
5	STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS(Vintage, $14.95) By Daniel Gilbert. A psychology professor examines why we err in anticipating the future.	4
6	THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING (Vintage, $13.95). By Joan Didion. A memoir of mourning her husband's death.	9
7	THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE(Back Bay, $14.95 ) By Malcolm Gladwell. Fads and their origins.	68
8	A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY (Random House, $13.95). By Kurt Vonnegut Five years' worth of essays in one volume.	2
9	DREAMS FROM MY FATHER (Three Rivers, $14.95). By Barack Obama A memoir by the junior senator from Illinois.	73
10	NIGHT(FSG, $9). By Elie Wiesel The terrifying account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.	53
	Hardcover
	Fiction
1	I HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE (Simon & Schuster, $26.95). By Mary Higgins Clark Suspicion and buried bodies mar newlyweds' bliss.	2
2	FRESH DISASTERS(Putnam, $25.95) By Stuart Woods. Attorney Stone Barrington reluctantly takes on a case targeting a Mafia don.	1
3	NINETEEN MINUTES(Atria, $26.95) By Jodi Picoult. A student shooter's brief reign of terror and its aftermath.	6
4	OBSESSION(Ballantine, $26.95) By Jonathan Kellerman. A former patient of Alex Delaware receives a startling deathbed confession.	3
5	SLEEPING WITH STRANGERS(Dutton, $24.95) By Eric Jerome Dickey. Meet Gideon, an assassin who finds himself a target while executing a job.	1
6	BOOMSDAY(Twelve, $24.99) By Christopher Buckley. A blogger causes an uproar with her "plan" for solving the Social Security crisis.	3
7	BODY OF LIES(Norton, $24.95). By David Ignatius A resourceful CIA station chief employs a WWII-era scheme to undermine a ruthless al-Qaeda cell.	1
8	THE ALIBI MAN(Bantam, $26). By Tami Hoag PI Elena Estes squares off against Palm Beach's beau monde (including her ex-fiance) over murder.	3
9	STEP ON A CRACK(Little, Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge A throng of dignitaries is kidnapped by terrorists.	10
10	WHITE NIGHT: A NOVEL OF THE DRESDEN FILES (Roc, $23.95). By Jim Butcher. Wizard Harry Dresden must stop the slaughter of magic novices.	2
	Nonfiction/General
1	EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE AND UNIVERSE (Simon & Schuster, $32). By Walter Isaacson An incisive look at the man behind the formulas.	1
2	A LONG WAY GONE: MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER (FSG, $22). By Ishmael Beah. Recalling the horrors of the civil war in Sierra Leone.	9
3	SECOND CHANCE: THREE PRESIDENTS AND THE CRISIS OF AMERICAN SUPERPOWER (Basic, $26.95). By Zbigniew Brzezinski	5
4	THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: THOUGHTS ON RECLAIMINGTHE AMERICAN DREAM (Crown, $25). By Barack Obama	25
5	HOW DOCTORS THINK(Houghton Mifflin, $26) By Jerome Groopman. Cites physicians' case experiences and their good and bad choices.	4
6	THE SUMMER OF 1787: THE MEN WHO INVENTED THE CONSTITUTION(Simon & Schuster, $27) By David O. Stewart. The Philadelphia Convention.	1
7	INFIDEL(Free Press, $26). By Ayaan Hirsi Ali Controversial Muslim women's rights advocate and former Dutch parliamentarian tells her story.	10
8	BAMBOOZLED: HOW AMERICANS ARE BEING EXPLOITED BY THE LIES OF A LIBERAL AGENDA (Nelson, $25.99). By Angela McGlowan	1
9	THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ: WINNING THE WAR, LOSING THE PEACE(Yale Univ., $28) By Ali A. Allawi. A former Iraqi minister's view.	1
10	THIS MOMENT ON EARTH: TODAY'S NEW ENVIRONMENTALISTS ...(PublicAffairs, $25) By John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry	4

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended April 15, 2007. The charts may not be reproduced without permission from Nielsen BookScan. Copyright © 2007 by Nielsen BookScan. (The right-hand column of numbers represents 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.)