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| Fiction | ||
| 1 | THE KITE RUNNER(Riverhead, $14) By Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan returns to his Taliban-ruled country to atone for a past betrayal. | 119 |
| 2 | THE ROAD(Vintage, $14.95) By Cormac McCarthy. A man and his son travel to the sea through a charred, post-apocalyptic land. | 12 |
| 3 | MIDDLESEX(Picador USA, $15) By Jeffrey Eugenides. A genetic anomaly causes a teen to become a hermaphrodite. | 10 |
| 4 | BEACH ROAD(Warner Vision, $9.99) By James Patterson and Peter de Jonge A struggling attorney lands a lurid murder case. | 3 |
| 5 | WATER FOR ELEPHANTS(Algonquin, $13.95) By Sara Gruen. An orphan discovers love when he joins a traveling circus amid the Great Depression. | 7 |
| 6 | ANGELS FALL(Jove, $7.99). By Nora Roberts Boston chef Renee Gilmore, looking for solace after surviving a shooting, finds murder instead. | 3 |
| 7 | THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (Penguin, $14). By Kim Edwards. A doctor regrets deceiving his wife about their twins' birth. | 49 |
| 8 | POLAR SHIFT(Berkley, $9.99). By Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos. Anti-globalization zealots acquire the means to trigger a global catastrophe. | 2 |
| 9 | BLACK ORDER(HarperTorch, $7.99) By James Rollins. Sigma Force confronts a sinister scheme to control the origin of life. | 3 |
| 10 | SUITE FRANÇAISE(Vintage, $14.95) By Irène Némirovsky. An unfinished novel exploring French collaboration with the Germans. | 9 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | EAT PRAY LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA(Penguin, $15). By Elizabeth Gilbert | 20 |
| 2 | WISDOM OF OUR FATHERS: LESSONS AND LETTERS FROM DAUGHTERS AND SONS (Random House, $13.95). By Tim Russert | 1 |
| 3 | BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING(Back Bay, $15.99) By Malcolm Gladwell. Behind our snap decisions. | 11 |
| 4 | THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing. | 68 |
| 5 | MAYFLOWER: A STORY OF COURAGE, COMMUNITY, AND WAR(Penguin, $16) By Nathaniel Philbrick. Plymouth Colony redux. | 8 |
| 6 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY(HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95) By Sidney Poitier. The esteemed actor reflects. | 21 |
| 7 | THREE CUPS OF TEA: ONE MAN'S MISSION TO PROMOTE PEACE(Penguin, $15) By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin | 10 |
| 8 | NIGHT(FSG, $9). By Elie Wiesel The terrifying account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. | 56 |
| 9 | STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS(Vintage, $14.95) By Daniel Gilbert. A psychology professor examines why we err in anticipating the future. | 13 |
| 10 | DREAMS FROM MY FATHER (Three Rivers, $14.95). By Barack Obama A memoir by the junior senator from Illinois. | 79 |
| Hardcover | ||
| Fiction | ||
| 1 | A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS (Riverhead, $25.95). By Khaled Hosseini Two Afghani women cope with a brutish husband. | 4 |
| 2 | DOUBLE TAKE(Putnam, $25.95) By Catherine Coulter. FBI agent Cheney Stone realizes two cases (from prior novels) are related. | 1 |
| 3 | ON CHESIL BEACH(Doubleday, $22) By Ian McEwan. Multiple tensions--sexual as well as class-- batter the Mayhew's marriage. | 2 |
| 4 | THE NAVIGATOR(Putnam, $26.95) By Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos. The NUMA team strives to retrieve a Phoenician artifact. | 3 |
| 5 | BLAZE(Scribner, $25). By Richard Bachman The author (better known as Stephen King) revises this suspense thriller he first put to paper in 1973. | 1 |
| 6 | THE BOURNE BETRAYAL(Warner, $25.99) By Eric Van Lustbader. The war on terror overtakes Jason Bourne, Robert Ludlum's master spy. | 2 |
| 7 | 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. | 9 |
| 8 | THE 6TH TARGET(Little, Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Kids and their nannies are being kidnapped off the street. | 6 |
| 9 | SIMPLE GENIUS(Warner, $26.99) By David Baldacci. Agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return, replete with personal baggage. | 8 |
| 10 | THE GOOD GUY(Bantam, $27) By Dean Koontz. A bar patron, mistaken for a hit man, decides to warn the intended victim. | 3 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS (Collins, $24.95). By Conn and Hal Iggulden For boys at heart, a paean to simple pastimes. | 7 |
| 2 | THE DIANA CHRONICLES(Doubleday, $27.50) By Tina Brown. Copious interviews and research back this new profile of the late Princess of Wales. | 1 |
| 3 | THE REAGAN DIARIES(HarperCollins, $35) By Ronald Reagan. Douglas Brinkley edits the personal reflections of our 40th president. | 4 |
| 4 | EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE AND UNIVERSE (Simon & Schuster, $32). By Walter Isaacson An incisive look at the man behind the theorems. | 10 |
| 5 | THE ASSAULT ON REASON (Penguin Press, $25.95). By Al Gore. Concern over the decline of truth in the public arena. | 4 |
| 6 | PRESIDENTIAL COURAGE: BRAVE LEADERS AND HOW THEY CHANGED AMERICA, 1789-1989 (Simon & Schuster, $28). By Michael Beschloss | 6 |
| 7 | WOMAN IN CHARGE: THE LIFE OF HILLARY RODHAMCLINTON(Knopf, $27.95) By Carl Bernstein. First lady, senator, president? | 2 |
| 8 | LONE SURVIVOR: THE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF OPERATION REDWING ...(Little, Brown, $24.99) By Marcus Luttrell. The Navy SEALs' greatest loss. | 1 |
| 9 | GOD IS NOT GREAT: HOW RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING(Twelve, $24.99) By Christopher Hitchens. Faith and its downfalls. | 7 |
| 10 | AT THE CENTER OF THE STORM: MY YEARS AT THE CIA(HarperCollins, $30). By George Tenet Parsing Sept. 11 and the Bush administration. | 7 |
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended June 17, 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.)
