Washington Area Bestsellers

	Paperback
	Fiction
1	THE COLLECTORS(Grand Central, $9.99) By David Baldacci. The Camel Club reunites to solve a murder at the Library of Congress.	1
2	THE KITE RUNNER(Riverhead, $14) By Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan returns to his Taliban-ruled country to atone for a past betrayal.	130
3	WATER FOR ELEPHANTS(Algonquin, $13.95) By Sara Gruen. An orphan discovers love when he joins a traveling circus amid the Great Depression.	18
4	74 SEASIDE AVENUE(Mira, $7.99) By Debbie Macomber. Another spell in Cedar Cove, Wash., and a crisis for a chess superstar.	1
5	ACT OF TREASON(Pocket, $9.99) By Vince Flynn. Unorthodox CIA agent Mitch Rapp copes with an attack on a presidential candidate.	1
6	INFERNO: STAR WARS: LEGACY OF THE FORCE (Del Rey, $7.99). By Troy Denning. Luke Skywalker defends the Jedi Order amid galactic civil war.	1
7	EXILE(St. Martin's, $9.99) By Richard North Patterson. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict propels this murder whodunit.	1
8	BEYOND SEDUCTION(Avon, $7.99) By Stephanie Laurens. This "Bastion Club" romance finds an earl wooing a plucky damsel.	1
9	AT FIRST SIGHT(Grand Central, $7.99) By Nicholas Sparks. Jeremy Marsh and Lexie Darnell cope with the stress of engagement.	1
10	KILLER DREAMS(Bantam, $7.99) By Iris Johansen. A rogue scientist aims to exploit a drug that transforms people into zombies.	1
	Nonfiction/General
1	EAT PRAY LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA(Penguin, $15). By Elizabeth Gilbert	30
2	THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA: A NATURAL HISTORY OF FOUR MEALS(Penguin, $16) By Michael Pollan. Surprising origins of foodstuffs.	1
3	THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY(Picador USA, $16) By Thomas L. Friedman. A further revised edition.	7
4	BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING(Back Bay, $15.99) By Malcolm Gladwell. Behind our snap decisions.	22
5	THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing.	79
6	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.	10
7	THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE(Back Bay, $14.95 ) By Malcolm Gladwell. Fads and their origins.	87
8	FIASCO: THE AMERICAN MILITARY ADVENTURE IN IRAQ(Penguin, $16). By Thomas E. Ricks The choices of U.S. military commanders.	5
9	THE LOOMING TOWER:AL-QAEDA AND THE ROAD TO 9/11(Vintage, $15.95). By Lawrence Wright The ascent of post-World War II radical Islam.	2
10	THREE CUPS OF TEA: ONE MAN'S MISSION TO PROMOTE PEACE(Penguin, $15) By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin	21
	Hardcover
	Fiction
1	THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS (Grand Central, $25.99). By Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. Aloysius Pendergast returns.	1
2	A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS (Riverhead, $25.95). By Khaled Hosseini Two Afghani women cope with a brutish husband.	15
3	BONES TO ASHES(Scribner, $25.95) By Kathy Reichs. A cold case becomes personal for forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan.	1
4	DARK POSSESSION(Berkley, $24.95) By Christine Feehan. Book #15 in the Carpathians saga finds one of those immortals luring a mate.	1
5	THE ELVES OF CINTRA: GENESIS OF SHANNARA (Del Rey, $26.95). By Terry Brooks. The last Knights of the Word rally to save humanity.	1
6	PLAY DIRTY(Simon & Schuster, $26.95) By Sandra Brown. Fresh from prison, a former NFL star is offered a tidy sum for an unusual request.	3
7	LORD JOHN AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLADE(Delacorte, $25). By Diana Gabaldon Lust, murder and treason haunt the Grey clan.	1
8	THE QUICKIE(Little, Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge A scorned wife finds revenge isn't so sweet.	9
9	GARDEN SPELLS(Bantam, $20) By Sarah Addison Allen. Two sisters, endowed with their family's magical gift, are reunited.	1
10	SWEET REVENGE(Morrow, $25.95) By Diane Mott Davidson. Rare maps and murder spoil plans for caterer/detective Goldy Schulz.	2
	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.	18
2	IKE: AN AMERICAN HERO(HarperCollins, $34.95) By Michael Korda. A flattering portrait of the Supreme Allied Commander and U.S. president.	1
3	LEGACY OF ASHES: THE HISTORY OF THE CIA (Doubleday, $27.95). By Tim Weiner. Exposing the good, the bad and the ugly in covert ops.	9
4	WONDERFUL TONIGHT: GEORGE HARRISON, ERICCLAPTON, AND ME(Harmony, $25.95) By Pattie Boyd. Inspiring two of music's icons.	1
5	THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (FSG, $26). By John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. A critical, provocative appraisal.	1
6	QUIET STRENGTH: THE PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES, & PRIORITIES OF A WINNING LIFE(Tyndale, $26.99). By Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker	8
7	LONE SURVIVOR: THE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF OPERATION REDWING ...(Little, Brown, $24.99) By Marcus Luttrell. The Navy SEALs' greatest loss.	12
8	GOD IS NOT GREAT: HOW RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING(Twelve, $24.99) By Christopher Hitchens. Faith and its ill effects.	18
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.	26
10	THE WORLD WITHOUT US (Thomas Dunne, $24.95). By Alan Weisman The fate of the planet if humans ceased to exist.	5

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Sept. 2, 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.)