Washington Area Bestsellers

28HardcoverFiction1CHANGE OF HEART(Atria, $26.95)

By Jodi Picoult. A death-row inmate offers to be an organ donor for the sister of a little girl he killed.

32THE APPEAL(Doubleday, $27.95)

By John Grisham. A startling, costly verdict. A company disgraced. A CEO's Machiavellian plot.

83REMEMBER ME?(Dial, $25). By Sophie Kinsella

After a serious bump to the head, a young woman awakes, astounded, to a whole new life and look.

447TH HEAVEN(Little, Brown, $27.99)

By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Arsonists prey on the affluent; "Women's Murder Club" tale.

75HONOR THYSELF(Delacorte, $27)

By Danielle Steel. Stricken by amnesia after a terrorist attack, a storied actress rebuilds her life.

46DEAD HEAT(Tyndale, $24.99)

By Joel C. Rosenberg. A bitter presidential election unfolds amid political catastrophes worldwide.

17A PRISONER OF BIRTH(St. Martin's, $27.95)

By Jeffrey Archer. A thoroughly modern retelling of Dumas's "The Count of Monte Cristo."

38A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

(Riverhead, $25.95). By Khaled Hosseini

Two Afghan women cope with a brutish husband.

439KILLER HEAT(Doubleday, $26). By Linda Fairstein

A ruthless serial killer targeting women in uniform is but one of the challenges facing Alex Cooper.

210WORLD WITHOUT END(Dutton, $35)

By Ken Follett. Revisiting Kingsbridge (setting for "The Pillars of the Earth") two centuries later.

20Nonfiction/General1BEAUTIFUL BOY: A FATHER'S JOURNEY THROUGH

HIS SON'S METH ADDICTION

(Houghton Mifflin, $24). By David Sheff

42COMMON WEALTH: ECONOMICS FOR A CROWDED

PLANET(Penguin Press, $27.95)

By Jeffrey D. Sachs. Tackling global crises.

13LOSING IT: AND GAINING MY LIFE BACK ONE

POUND AT A TIME(Free Press, $26)

By Valerie Bertinelli. The child star grows up.

44A PERSONAL STAND: OBSERVATIONS AND

OPINIONS FROM A FREETHINKING ROUGHNECK

(Villard, $23.95). By Trace Adkins

15RETRIBUTION: THE BATTLE FOR JAPAN, 1944-45

(Knopf, $35). By Max Hastings. Portraits of key players enliven this history of the war's final year.

16THE DARING BOOK FOR GIRLS(Collins, $24.95)

By Andrea J. Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz

A manual for young ladies and tomboys alike.

207IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: AN EATER'S MANIFESTO

(Penguin Press, $21.95). By Michael Pollan

Navigating a healthy diet amid the nutrition wars.

128THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS

(Collins, $24.95). By Conn and Hal Iggulden

For boys at heart, a paean to simple pastimes.

469WHY WOMEN SHOULD RULE THE WORLD

(Harper, $24.95). By Dee Dee Myers. The former White House press secretary makes her case.

310THE REASON FOR GOD: BELIEF IN AN AGE OF

SKEPTICISM(Dutton, $24.95). By Timothy Keller

A pastor's response to the anti-theism crowd.

1Rankings reflect sales for the week ended March 23, 2008. The charts may not be reproduced without permission from Nielsen BookScan. Copyright ¿ 2008 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.)