Washington Area Bestsellers
Sunday, May 6, 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. | 5 |
| 2 | THE 5TH HORSEMAN(Warner, $14.99) By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Hospital patients' puzzling deaths suggest a wily murderer. | 2 |
| 3 | THE B00K OF FATE(Warner Vision, $7.99) By Brad Meltzer. This thriller, laced with Masonic lore, opens with an attempt on the president's life. | 1 |
| 4 | DEAD WATCH(Berkley, $9.99). By John Sandford The disappearance of a former U.S. senator casts suspicion on his rival in a bid for the Oval Office. | 1 |
| 5 | SUITE FRANÇAISE(Vintage, $14.95) By Irène Némirovsky. A WWII-era, unfinished novel exploring French collaboration with the Germans. | 3 |
| 6 | THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (Penguin, $14). By Kim Edwards. A doctor regrets deceiving his wife about their twins' birth. | 42 |
| 7 | 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. | 4 |
| 8 | BORN IN DEATH(Berkley, $7.99). By J.D. Robb Eve Dallas investigates a double homicide and the disappearance of a mother-to-be. | 1 |
| 9 | SUSANNAH'S GARDEN(Mira, $7.99) By Debbie Macomber. Susannah returns home to help her widowed mother and solve a mystery. | 1 |
| 10 | 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. | 6 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING(Back Bay, $15.99) By Malcolm Gladwell. Behind our snap decisions. | 4 |
| 2 | EAT PRAY LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA(Penguin, $15). By Elizabeth Gilbert | 13 |
| 3 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY(HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95) By Sidney Poitier. The esteemed actor reflects. | 14 |
| 4 | THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing. | 61 |
| 5 | MAYFLOWER: A STORY OF COURAGE, COMMUNITY, AND WAR(Penguin, $16) By Nathaniel Philbrick. Plymouth Colony redux. | 1 |
| 6 | THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING (Vintage, $13.95). By Joan Didion. Mourning the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. | 11 |
| 7 | THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE(Back Bay, $14.95 ) By Malcolm Gladwell. Fads and their origins. | 70 |
| 8 | STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS(Vintage, $14.95) By Daniel Gilbert. A psychology professor examines why we err in anticipating the future. | 6 |
| 9 | DREAMS FROM MY FATHER (Three Rivers, $14.95). By Barack Obama A memoir by the junior senator from Illinois. | 75 |
| 10 | THREE CUPS OF TEA: ONE MAN'S MISSION TO PROMOTE PEACE(Penguin, $15) By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin | 5 |
| Hardcover | ||
| Fiction | ||
| 1 | SIMPLE GENIUS(Warner, $26.99) By David Baldacci. Agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return, replete with personal baggage. | 1 |
| 2 | 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. | 2 |
| 3 | BODY SURFING(Little, Brown, $25.99) By Anita Shreve. The recently widowed Sydney is drawn into the lives of the wealthy Edwards clan. | 1 |
| 4 | THE GOOD HUSBAND OF ZEBRA DRIVE (Pantheon, $21.95). By Alexander McCall Smith. The eighth "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" novel. | 2 |
| 5 | THE WOODS(Dutton, $26.95). By Harlan Coben A 20-year-old, unsolved case of murdered and missing kids at a summer camp resurfaces. | 7 |
| 6 | I HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE (Simon & Schuster, $26.95). By Mary Higgins Clark Suspicion and buried bodies mar newlyweds' bliss. | 4 |
| 7 | THE RIVER KNOWS(Putnam, $24.95) By Amanda Quick. A spirited reporter and dapper Englishman are thrust together whilst snooping. | 1 |
| 8 | NINETEEN MINUTES(Atria, $26.95) By Jodi Picoult. A student shooter's brief reign of terror in suburban New Jersey, and its aftermath. | 8 |
| 9 | BACK ON BLOSSOM STREET(Mira, $24.95) By Debbie Macomber. Susannah Nelson (from "Susannah's Garden") opens a shop on Blossom St. | 1 |
| 10 | FRESH DISASTERS(Putnam, $25.95) By Stuart Woods. Attorney Stone Barrington reluctantly takes on a case targeting a Mafia don. | 3 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE AND UNIVERSE (Simon & Schuster, $32). By Walter Isaacson An incisive look at the man behind the formulas. | 3 |
| 2 | THIS MOMENT ON EARTH: TODAY'S NEW ENVIRONMENTALISTS ...(PublicAffairs, $25) By John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry | 6 |
| 3 | WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE? (Scribner, $25). By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney. Criticizing the state of government. | 2 |
| 4 | A LONG WAY GONE: MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER (FSG, $22). By Ishmael Beah. Recalling the horrors of the civil war in Sierra Leone. | 11 |
| 5 | NIXON AND KISSINGER: PARTNERS IN POWER (HarperCollins, $32.50). By Robert Dallek The president and his secretary of state. | 1 |
| 6 | THE BLACK SWAN: THE IMPACT OF THE HIGHLY IMPROBABLE(Random House, $26.95) By Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Facing the unpredictable. | 1 |
| 7 | CRAZIES TO THE LEFT OF ME, WIMPS TO THE RIGHT(HarperCollins, $25.95) By Bernard Goldberg. Anti-liberal admonitions. | 2 |
| 8 | THE SUMMER OF 1787: THE MEN WHO INVENTED THE CONSTITUTION(Simon & Schuster, $27) By David O. Stewart. The Philadelphia Convention. | 3 |
| 9 | THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: THOUGHTS ON RECLAIMINGTHE AMERICAN DREAM (Crown, $25). By Barack Obama | 27 |
| 10 | HOW DOCTORS THINK(Houghton Mifflin, $26) By Jerome Groopman. Cites physicians' case experiences and their good and bad choices. | 6 |
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended April 29, 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. The advice/miscellaneous list to the right reflects sales from 3/26 to 4/29.)
