Sunday, July 1, 2007

	Paperback
	Fiction
1	THE KITE RUNNER(Riverhead, $14) By Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan returns to his Taliban-ruled country to atone for a past betrayal.	120
2	MIDDLESEX(Picador USA, $15) By Jeffrey Eugenides. A genetic anomaly causes a teen to become a hermaphrodite.	11
3	WATER FOR ELEPHANTS(Algonquin, $13.95) By Sara Gruen. An orphan discovers love when he joins a traveling circus amid the Great Depression.	8
4	TWELVE SHARP(St. Martin's, $7.99) By Janet Evanovich.Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum puts aside job anxiety to find a missing child.	1
5	BEACH ROAD(Warner Vision, $9.99) By James Patterson and Peter de Jonge A struggling attorney lands a lurid murder case.	4
6	THE ROAD(Vintage, $14.95) By Cormac McCarthy. A man and his son travel to the sea through a charred, post-apocalyptic land.	13
7	THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (Penguin, $14). By Kim Edwards. A doctor regrets deceiving his wife about their twins' birth.	50
8	ANGELS FALL(Jove, $7.99). By Nora Roberts Boston chef Renee Gilmore, looking for solace after surviving a shooting, finds murder instead.	4
9	LISEY'S STORY(Pocket, $9.99) By Stephen King. The widow of a celebrated horror writer uncovers surprises in her husband's papers.	1
10	SUITE FRANÇAISE(Vintage, $14.95) By Irène Némirovsky. An unfinished novel exploring French collaboration with the Germans.	10
	Nonfiction/General
1	EAT PRAY LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA(Penguin, $15). By Elizabeth Gilbert	21
2	BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING(Back Bay, $15.99) By Malcolm Gladwell. Behind our snap decisions.	12
3	THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing.	69
4	THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE(Back Bay, $14.95 ) By Malcolm Gladwell. Fads and their origins.	77
5	MAYFLOWER: A STORY OF COURAGE, COMMUNITY, AND WAR(Penguin, $16) By Nathaniel Philbrick. Plymouth Colony redux.	9
6	WISDOM OF OUR FATHERS: LESSONS AND LETTERS FROM DAUGHTERS AND SONS (Random House, $13.95). By Tim Russert	2
7	THREE CUPS OF TEA: ONE MAN'S MISSION TO PROMOTE PEACE(Penguin, $15) By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin	11
8	THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY(HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95) By Sidney Poitier. The esteemed actor reflects.	22
9	THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING (Vintage, $13.95). By Joan Didion. Mourning the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.	18
10	NIGHT(FSG, $9). By Elie Wiesel The terrifying account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.	57
	Hardcover
	Fiction
1	LEAN MEAN THIRTEEN(St. Martin's, $27.95) By Janet Evanovich. Stephanie Plum becomes a suspect in her ex-husband's presumed death.	1
2	A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS (Riverhead, $25.95). By Khaled Hosseini Two Afghani women cope with a brutish husband.	5
3	DOUBLE TAKE(Putnam, $25.95) By Catherine Coulter. FBI agent Cheney Stone realizes two cases (from prior novels) are related.	2
4	ON CHESIL BEACH(Doubleday, $22) By Ian McEwan. Multiple tensions--sexual as well as class-- batter the Mayhew's marriage.	3
5	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.	10
6	THE NAVIGATOR(Putnam, $26.95) By Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos. The NUMA team strives to retrieve a Phoenician artifact.	4
7	BLAZE(Scribner, $25). By Richard Bachman The author (better known as Stephen King) revises this suspense thriller he first put to paper in 1973.	2
8	THE 6TH TARGET(Little, Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Kids and their nannies are being kidnapped off the street.	7
9	THE BOURNE BETRAYAL(Warner, $25.99) By Eric Van Lustbader. The war on terror overtakes Jason Bourne, Robert Ludlum's master spy.	3
10	THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION (HarperCollins, $26.95). By Michael Chabon. Alaska substitutes for Israel in this alt-history tale.	6
	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.	8
2	PRESIDENTIAL COURAGE: BRAVE LEADERS AND HOW THEY CHANGED AMERICA, 1789-1989 (Simon & Schuster, $28). By Michael Beschloss	7
3	THE DIANA CHRONICLES(Doubleday, $27.50) By Tina Brown. Copious interviews and research back this new profile of the late Princess of Wales.	2
4	THE REAGAN DIARIES(HarperCollins, $35) By Ronald Reagan. Douglas Brinkley edits the personal reflections of our 40th president.	5
5	THE ASSAULT ON REASON (Penguin Press, $25.95). By Al Gore. Concern over the decline of truth in the public arena.	5
6	EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE AND UNIVERSE (Simon & Schuster, $32). By Walter Isaacson An incisive look at the man behind the theorems.	11
7	LONE SURVIVOR: THE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF OPERATION REDWING ...(Little, Brown, $24.99) By Marcus Luttrell. The Navy SEALs' greatest loss.	2
8	GOD IS NOT GREAT: HOW RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING(Twelve, $24.99) By Christopher Hitchens. Faith and its downfalls.	8
9	A LONG WAY GONE: MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER (FSG, $22). By Ishmael Beah. Recalling the horrors of the civil war in Sierra Leone.	16
10	WOMAN IN CHARGE: THE LIFE OF HILLARY RODHAMCLINTON(Knopf, $27.95) By Carl Bernstein. First lady, senator, president?	3

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended June 24, 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 represents sales from 6/3 to 6/24.)