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.	4
2	THE 5TH HORSEMAN(Warner, $14.99) By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Hospital patients' puzzling deaths suggest a wily murderer.	1
3	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.	3
4	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.	5
5	HOT STUFF(St. Martin's, $7.99) By Janet Evanovich & Leanne Banks. A new series introducing sassy Irish barkeep Cate Madigan.	3
6	THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (Penguin, $14). By Kim Edwards. A doctor regrets deceiving his wife about their twins' birth.	41
7	GONE(Ballantine, $7.99). By Jonathan Kellerman Alex Delaware probes an acting studio after a student (who faked her own abduction) is killed.	4
8	SUITE FRANÇAISE(Vintage, $14.95) By Irène Némirovsky. A WWII-era, unfinished novel exploring French collaboration with the Germans.	2
9	THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS(Grove, $14) By Kiran Desai. A judge's retirement is disrupted by political unrest in his Himalayan village.	21
10	JUDGE & JURY(Warner, $9.99) By James Patterson and Andrew Gross. An assassin derails a Mafia boss's high-profile trial.	8
	Nonfiction/General
1	BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING(Back Bay, $15.99) By Malcolm Gladwell. Behind our snap decisions.	3
2	THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY(HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95) By Sidney Poitier. The esteemed actor reflects.	13
3	EAT PRAY LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA(Penguin, $15). By Elizabeth Gilbert	12
4	THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing.	60
5	THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING (Vintage, $13.95). By Joan Didion. Mourning the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.	10
6	THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE(Back Bay, $14.95 ) By Malcolm Gladwell. Fads and their origins.	69
7	STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS(Vintage, $14.95) By Daniel Gilbert. A psychology professor examines why we err in anticipating the future.	5
8	DREAMS FROM MY FATHER (Three Rivers, $14.95). By Barack Obama A memoir by the junior senator from Illinois.	74
9	A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY (Random House, $13.95). By Kurt Vonnegut Five years' worth of essays in one volume.	3
10	NIGHT(FSG, $9). By Elie Wiesel The terrifying account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.	54
	Hardcover
	Fiction
1	THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN(Houghton Mifflin, $26) By J.R.R. Tolkien. Men and elves battle the minions of Morgoth in this tale of Middle Earth's First Age.	1
2	THE GOOD HUSBAND OF ZEBRA DRIVE (Pantheon, $21.95). By Alexander McCall Smith. The eighth "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" novel.	1
3	THE WOODS(Dutton, $26.95). By Harlan Coben A 20-year-old, unsolved case of murdered and missing kids at a summer camp resurfaces.	6
4	I HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE (Simon & Schuster, $26.95). By Mary Higgins Clark Suspicion and buried bodies mar newlyweds' bliss.	3
5	NINETEEN MINUTES(Atria, $26.95) By Jodi Picoult. A student shooter's brief reign of terror in suburban New Jersey, and its aftermath.	7
6	FRESH DISASTERS(Putnam, $25.95) By Stuart Woods. Attorney Stone Barrington reluctantly takes on a case targeting a Mafia don.	2
7	OBSESSION(Ballantine, $26.95) By Jonathan Kellerman. A former patient of Alex Delaware receives a startling deathbed confession.	4
8	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.	2
9	SLEEPING WITH STRANGERS(Dutton, $24.95) By Eric Jerome Dickey. Meet Gideon, an assassin who finds himself a target while executing a job.	2
10	THE BLUE ZONE(Morrow, $25.95) By Andrew Gross. Testimony against a drug cartel forces Kate Raab's father into witness protection.	1
	Nonfiction/General
1	EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE AND UNIVERSE (Simon & Schuster, $32). By Walter Isaacson An incisive look at the man behind the formulas.	2
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.	10
3	THIS MOMENT ON EARTH: TODAY'S NEW ENVIRONMENTALISTS ...(PublicAffairs, $25) By John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry	5
4	WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE? (Scribner, $25). By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney. Criticizing the state of government.	1
5	THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: THOUGHTS ON RECLAIMINGTHE AMERICAN DREAM (Crown, $25). By Barack Obama	26
6	CRAZIES TO THE LEFT OF ME, WIMPS TO THE RIGHT(HarperCollins, $25.95). By Bernard Goldberg. More anti-liberal admonitions.	1
7	THE SUMMER OF 1787: THE MEN WHO INVENTED THE CONSTITUTION(Simon & Schuster, $27) By David O. Stewart. The Philadelphia Convention.	2
8	INFIDEL(Free Press, $26). By Ayaan Hirsi Ali Controversial Muslim women's rights advocate and former Dutch parliamentarian tells her story.	11
9	SECOND CHANCE: THREE PRESIDENTS AND THE CRISIS OF AMERICAN SUPERPOWER (Basic, $26.95). By Zbigniew Brzezinski	6
10	HOW DOCTORS THINK(Houghton Mifflin, $26) By Jerome Groopman. Cites physicians' case experiences and their good and bad choices.	5

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended April 22, 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.)