Washington Area Bestsellers
Sunday, April 22, 2007; Page BW14
| 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.)
