Sunday, September 23, 2007

	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.	3
2	WATER FOR ELEPHANTS(Algonquin, $13.95) By Sara Gruen. An orphan discovers love when he joins a traveling circus amid the Great Depression.	20
3	THE KITE RUNNER(Riverhead, $14) By Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan returns to his Taliban-ruled country to atone for a past betrayal.	132
4	ACT OF TREASON(Pocket, $9.99) By Vince Flynn. Unorthodox CIA agent Mitch Rapp copes with an attack on a presidential candidate.	3
5	AT FIRST SIGHT(Grand Central, $7.99) By Nicholas Sparks. Jeremy Marsh and Lexie Darnell cope with the stress of engagement.	3
6	THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN(Vintage, $14.95) By Claire Messud. A social satire revolving around a vainglorious clique of young Manhattanites.	9
7	WHAT CAME BEFORE HE SHOT HER (HarperCollins, $7.99). By Elizabeth George Who was the youth who shot Lynley's wife?	1
8	74 SEASIDE AVENUE(Mira, $7.99) By Debbie Macomber. Another spell in Cedar Cove, Wash., and a crisis for a chess superstar.	3
9	EXILE(St. Martin's, $9.99) By Richard North Patterson. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict propels this murder whodunit.	3
10	THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (Penguin, $14). By Kim Edwards. A doctor regrets deceiving his wife about their twins' birth.	60
	Nonfiction/General
1	EAT PRAY LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA(Penguin, $15). By Elizabeth Gilbert	32
2	THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA: A NATURAL HISTORY OF FOUR MEALS(Penguin, $16) By Michael Pollan. Surprising origins of foodstuffs.	3
3	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.	4
4	THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTO- BIOGRAPHY(HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95) By Sidney Poitier. The esteemed actor reflects.	25
5	THE GLASS CASTLE(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and an unorthodox upbringing.	81
6	THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY(Picador USA, $16) By Thomas L. Friedman. A further revised edition.	9
7	NIGHT(FSG, $9). By Elie Wiesel The terrifying account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.	62
8	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.	12
9	BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING(Back Bay, $15.99) By Malcolm Gladwell. Behind our snap decisions.	24
10	THREE CUPS OF TEA: ONE MAN'S MISSION TO PROMOTE PEACE(Penguin, $15) By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin	23
	Hardcover
	Fiction
1	YOU'VE BEEN WARNED(Little, Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson & Howard Roughan. Vivid, grisly nightmares upend a young nanny's life.	1
2	A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS (Riverhead, $25.95). By Khaled Hosseini Two Afghani women cope with a brutish husband.	17
3	BONES TO ASHES(Scribner, $25.95) By Kathy Reichs. A cold case becomes personal for forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan.	3
4	THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS (Grand Central, $25.99). By Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. Aloysius Pendergast returns.	3
5	PONTOON: A NOVEL OF LAKE WOBEGON (Viking, $25.95). By Garrison Keillor. The thrilling past of 82-year-old Evelyn Peterson is revealed.	1
6	THE QUICKIE(Little, Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge A scorned wife finds revenge isn't so sweet.	11
7	THE 47TH SAMURAI(Simon & Schuster, $26) By Stephen Hunter. Bob Lee Swagger navigates Japanese culture and history to retrieve a relic.	1
8	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.	4
9	AWAY(Random House, $23.95). By Amy Bloom Lillian Leyb, a Russian Jew in mid-1920s NYC, begins a rousing quest to find her lost daughter.	4
10	LOVING FRANK(Ballantine, $23.95) By Nancy Horan. A fictional look at the bond between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney.	3
	Nonfiction/General
1	GIVING: HOW EACH OF US CAN CHANGE THE WORLD(Knopf, $24.95). By Bill Clinton Extolling the virtues of volunteering and charity.	2
2	POWER TO THE PEOPLE(Regnery, $27.95) By Laura Ingraham. The conservative radio host outlines her blueprint for revitalizing America.	1
3	THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS (Collins, $24.95). By Conn and Hal Iggulden For boys at heart, a paean to simple pastimes.	20
4	WORLD WAR IV: THE LONG STRUGGLE AGAINST ISLAMOFACISM(Doubleday, $24.95) By Norman Podhoretz. Rallying for the Iraq War.	1
5	DEAD CERTAIN: THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BUSH(Free Press, $28) By Robert Draper. Unprecedented access.	2
6	THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (FSG, $26). By John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. A critical, provocative appraisal.	3
7	THE WAR: AN INTIMATE HISTORY, 1941-1945 (Knopf, $50). By Geoffrey C. Ward. The companion to Ken Burns's PBS documentary.	1
8	THE WORLD WITHOUT US (Thomas Dunne, $24.95). By Alan Weisman The fate of the planet if humans ceased to exist.	7
9	THE GREAT UPHEAVAL: AMERICA AND THE BIRTHOF THE MODERN WORLD, 1788-1800 (HarperCollins, $29.95). By Jay Winik	1
10	BROKEN GOVERNMENT: HOW REPUBLICAN RULE DESTROYED ...(Viking, $25.95). By John W. Dean Tarnishing the wheels and cogs of government.	1

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Sept. 16, 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.)