Sunday, July 8, 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.	121
2	MIDDLESEX(Picador USA, $15) By Jeffrey Eugenides. A genetic anomaly causes a teen to become a hermaphrodite.	12
3	THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS MIRANDA CHEEVER (Avon, $7.99). By Julia Quinn. A young woman seeks to win the love of a friend, a bitter widower.	1
4	WATER FOR ELEPHANTS(Algonquin, $13.95) By Sara Gruen. An orphan discovers love when he joins a traveling circus amid the Great Depression.	9
5	SAFE HARBOR(Jove, $7.99) By Christine Feehan. Paranormally gifted sisters solve the mystery of one attacked by a slasher.	1
6	THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (Penguin, $14). By Kim Edwards. A doctor regrets deceiving his wife about their twins' birth.	51
7	THE ROAD(Vintage, $14.95) By Cormac McCarthy. A man and his son travel to the sea through a charred, post-apocalyptic land.	14
8	BEACH ROAD(Warner Vision, $9.99) By James Patterson and Peter de Jonge A struggling attorney lands a lurid murder case.	5
9	TWELVE SHARP(St. Martin's, $7.99) By Janet Evanovich.Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum puts aside job anxiety to find a missing child.	2
10	THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM(Bantam, $7.99) By Robert Ludlum. A master assassin renews his struggle against an international terrorist.	1
	Nonfiction/General
1	EAT PRAY LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA(Penguin, $15). By Elizabeth Gilbert	22
2	THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing.	70
3	A WHOLE NEW MIND: WHY RIGHT-BRAINERS WILL RULE THE FUTURE(Riverhead, $15) By Daniel Pink	1
4	BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING(Back Bay, $15.99) By Malcolm Gladwell. Behind our snap decisions.	13
5	THREE CUPS OF TEA: ONE MAN'S MISSION TO PROMOTE PEACE(Penguin, $15) By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin	12
6	THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE(Back Bay, $14.95 ) By Malcolm Gladwell. Fads and their origins.	78
7	CRIMES AGAINST NATURE (HarperPerennial, $13.95). By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Repairing the environment and democracy.	1
8	MAYFLOWER: A STORY OF COURAGE, COMMUNITY, AND WAR(Penguin, $16) By Nathaniel Philbrick. Plymouth Colony redux.	10
9	90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN: A TRUE STORY OF DEATH AND LIFE(Revell, $12.99). By Don Piper. A Baptist minister declared dead returns to life.	1
10	THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY(HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95) By Sidney Poitier. The esteemed actor reflects.	23
	Hardcover
	Fiction
1	A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS (Riverhead, $25.95). By Khaled Hosseini Two Afghani women cope with a brutish husband.	6
2	LEAN MEAN THIRTEEN(St. Martin's, $27.95) By Janet Evanovich. Stephanie Plum becomes a suspect in her ex-husband's presumed death.	2
3	BUNGALOW 2(Delacorte, $27) By Danielle Steel. A woman's life unravels when she becomes a Hollywood screenwriter.	1
4	DOUBLE AGENTS(Putnam, $25.95) By W.E.B. Griffin. David Niven, Peter Ustinov and Ian Fleming aid the OSS in deceiving the Nazis.	1
5	ON CHESIL BEACH(Doubleday, $22) By Ian McEwan. Multiple tensions--sexual as well as class-- batter the Mayhews' marriage.	4
6	THE MAYTREES(HarperCollins, $24.95) By Annie Dillard. A Cape Cod wife and mother weathers life's changes reflectively.	1
7	DOUBLE TAKE(Putnam, $25.95) By Catherine Coulter. FBI agent Cheney Stone realizes two cases (from prior novels) are related.	3
8	NEW ENGLAND WHITE(Knopf, $26.95) By Stephen L. Carter. A university president's wife works to solve a murder.	1
9	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.	11
10	DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL(St. Martin's, $24.95) By Jackie Collins. A film producer plans a party for her Mafioso father unaware of a vendetta.	1
	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.	9
2	THE DIANA CHRONICLES(Doubleday, $27.50) By Tina Brown. Copious interviews and research back this new profile of the late Princess of Wales.	3
3	THE ASSAULT ON REASON (Penguin Press, $25.95). By Al Gore. Concern over the decline of truth in the public arena.	6
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.	17
5	THE REAGAN DIARIES(HarperCollins, $35) By Ronald Reagan. The personal reflections of our 40th president.	6
6	LONE SURVIVOR: THE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF OPERATION REDWING ...(Little, Brown, $24.99) By Marcus Luttrell. The Navy SEALs' greatest loss.	3
7	GOD IS NOT GREAT: HOW RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING(Twelve, $24.99) By Christopher Hitchens. Faith and its downfalls.	9
8	EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE AND UNIVERSE (Simon & Schuster, $32). By Walter Isaacson An incisive look at the man behind the theorems.	12
9	PRESIDENTIAL COURAGE: BRAVE LEADERS AND HOW THEY CHANGED AMERICA, 1789-1989 (Simon & Schuster, $28). By Michael Beschloss	8
10	PENTAGON: A HISTORY(Random House, $32.95) By Steve Vogel. From blueprint to final construction.	1

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended July 1, 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.)