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.	6
2	THE 5TH HORSEMAN(Warner, $14.99) By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Hospital patients' puzzling deaths suggest a wily murderer.	3
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.	2
4	THE HUSBAND(Bantam, $7.99). By Dean Koontz A gardener's wife is kidnapped, and the culprits demand $2 million in cash within 60 hours.	1
5	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.	2
6	SUITE FRAN?AISE(Vintage, $14.95) By Ir?ne N?mirovsky. A WWII-era, unfinished novel exploring French collaboration with the Germans.	4
7	THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (Penguin, $14). By Kim Edwards. A doctor regrets deceiving his wife about their twins' birth.	43
8	SUSANNAH'S GARDEN(Mira, $7.99) By Debbie Macomber. Susannah returns home to help her widowed mother and solve a mystery.	2
9	COVER OF NIGHT(Ballantine, $7.99) By Linda Howard. A widow's life is in jeopardy when a mysterious guest vanishes from her B&B.	1
10	WATER FOR ELEPHANTS(Algonquin, $13.95) By Sara Gruen. An orphan discovers love when he joins a traveling circus amid the Great Depression.	1
	Nonfiction/General
1	BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING(Back Bay, $15.99) By Malcolm Gladwell. Behind our snap decisions.	5
2	NOT ON OUR WATCH: THE MISSION TO END GENOCIDE IN DARFUR ...(Hyperion, $14.95) By Don Cheadle and John Prendergast	1
3	EAT PRAY LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA(Penguin, $15). By Elizabeth Gilbert	14
4	THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY(HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95) By Sidney Poitier. The esteemed actor reflects.	15
5	THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing.	62
6	MAYFLOWER: A STORY OF COURAGE, COMMUNITY, AND WAR(Penguin, $16) By Nathaniel Philbrick. Plymouth Colony redux.	2
7	THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE(Back Bay, $14.95 ) By Malcolm Gladwell. Fads and their origins.	71
8	STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS(Vintage, $14.95) By Daniel Gilbert. A psychology professor examines why we err in anticipating the future.	7
9	THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING (Vintage, $13.95). By Joan Didion. Mourning the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.	12
10	DREAMS FROM MY FATHER (Three Rivers, $14.95). By Barack Obama A memoir by the junior senator from Illinois.	76
	Hardcover
	Fiction
1	SIMPLE GENIUS(Warner, $26.99) By David Baldacci. Agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return, replete with personal baggage.	2
2	THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION (HarperCollins, $26.95). By Michael Chabon. Alaska substitutes for Israel in this alt-history tale.	1
3	THE CHILDREN OF H?RIN(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.	3
4	THE GOOD HUSBAND OF ZEBRA DRIVE (Pantheon, $21.95). By Alexander McCall Smith. The eighth "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" novel.	3
5	BODY SURFING(Little, Brown, $25.99) By Anita Shreve. The recently widowed Sydney is drawn into the lives of the wealthy Edwards clan.	2
6	ALL TOGETHER DEAD(Ace, $24.95) By Charlaine Harris. An anxious summit of vampires propels this "Southern Vampire Mystery."	1
7	THE WOODS(Dutton, $26.95). By Harlan Coben A 20-year-old, unsolved case of murdered and missing kids at a summer camp resurfaces.	8
8	I HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE (Simon & Schuster, $26.95). By Mary Higgins Clark Suspicion and buried bodies mar newlyweds' bliss.	5
9	RANT: AN ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF BUSTER CASEY (Doubleday, $24.95). By Chuck Palahniuk. Life of a serial killer in an unsettling, urban dystopia.	1
10	BACK ON BLOSSOM STREET(Mira, $24.95) By Debbie Macomber. Susannah Nelson (from "Susannah's Garden") opens a shop on Blossom St.	2
	Nonfiction/General
1	AT THE CENTER OF THE STORM: MY YEARS AT THE CIA(HarperCollins, $30). By George Tenet Parsing Sept. 11 and the Bush administration.	1
2	EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE AND UNIVERSE (Simon & Schuster, $32). By Walter Isaacson An incisive look at the man behind the formulas.	4
3	ANIMAL VEGETABLE MIRACLE: A YEAR OF FOOD LIFEHarperCollins, $26.95). By Barbara Kingsolver et al. Entirely home-grown food.	1
4	THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS(Collins, $24.95) By Conn and Hal Iggulden. For boys at heart, a paean to paper airplanes, knots -- the simple stuff.	1
5	THIS MOMENT ON EARTH: TODAY'S NEW ENVIRONMENTALISTS ...(PublicAffairs, $25) By John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry	7
6	A LONG WAY GONE: MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER (FSG, $22). By Ishmael Beah. Recalling the horrors of the civil war in Sierra Leone.	12
7	GOD IS NOT GREAT: HOW RELIGION POISONS EVEYTHING(Twelve, $24.99) By Christopher Hitchens. Faith and its downfalls.	1
8	WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE? (Scribner, $25). By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney. Criticizing the state of government.	3
9	NIXON AND KISSINGER: PARTNERS IN POWER (HarperCollins, $32.50). By Robert Dallek The president and his secretary of state.	2
10	TALES FROM Q SCHOOL: INSIDE GOLF'S FIFTH MAJOR(Little, Brown, $26.99) By John Feinstein. The PGA's qualifying tournament.	1

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended May 6, 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, montly list.)