The Book Sense National Bestseller List
The Book Sense National Bestseller List
Published Thursday, May 10, 2007 (for the sales week ended Sunday, May 6, 2007). Based on reporting from many hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense across the United States.
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Debuts for the week:
Hardcover Fiction
#1-The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon (9780007149827)
#5-Rant, by Chuck Palahniuk (9780385517874)
#10-Dream When You're Feeling Blue, by Elizabeth Berg (9781400065103)
#13-All Together Dead, by Charlaine Harris (978044101494)
Hardcover Nonfiction
#2-Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp (9780060852559)
#3-At the Center of the Storm, by George Tenet (9780061147784)
#5- The Dangerous Book for Boys, by Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden (9780061243585)
#8-God Is Not Great, by Christopher Hitchens (9780446579803)
Children's Interest
#4- Marley: A Dog Like No Other, by John Grogan (9780061240331)
Children's Illustrated
#7-Bad Dog, Marley!, by John Grogan, Richard Cowdrey (Illus.) (9780061171147)
#12-The Incredible Book-Eating Boy, by Oliver Jeffers (9780399247491)
#15-The Amazing Spider-Man Pop-Up, by Marvel Comics (Eds.) (9780763632632)
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Debut
Michael Chabon, HarperCollins, $26.95, 9780007149827
2. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $21.95, 9780375422737
3. The Children of Hurin
J.R.R. Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin, $26, 9780618894642
4. Simple Genius
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446580342
5. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey - Debut
Chuck Palahniuk, Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385517874
6. The Woods
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $26.95, 9780525950127
7. Body Surfing
Anita Shreve, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316059855
8. Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult, Atria, $26.95, 9780743496728
9. What Is the What
Dave Eggers, McSweeney's, $26, 9781932416640
10. Dream When You're Feeling Blue - Debut
Elizabeth Berg, Random House, $24.95, 9781400065103
11. I Heard That Song Before
Mary Higgins Clark, S&S, $25.95, 9780743264914
12. Whitethorn Woods
Maeve Binchy, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307265784
13. All Together Dead - Debut
Charlaine Harris, Ace Books, $24.95, 9780441014941
14. Fresh Disasters
Stuart Woods, Putnam, $25.95, 9780399154102
15. Boomsday
Christopher Buckley, Twelve, $24.99, 9780446579810
ON THE RISE:
16. Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
Deepak Chopra, HarperOne, $24.95, 9780060878801
A novel concerning how the Indian prince Siddhartha came to be the Buddha.
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Secret
Rhonda Byrne (Ed.), Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95, 9781582701707
2. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Debut
Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, HarperCollins, $26.95, 9780060852559
3. At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA - Debut
George Tenet, HarperCollins, $30, 9780061147784
4. Einstein
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $32, 9780743264730
5. The Dangerous Book for Boys - Debut
Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden, Collins, $24.95, 9780061243585
6. A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah, Sarah Crichton/FSG, $22, 9780374105235
7. Grace (Eventually)
Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $24.95, 9781594489426
8. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Debut
Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, $24.99, 9780446579803
9. I Feel Bad About My Neck
Nora Ephron, Knopf, $19.95, 9780307264558
10. How Doctors Think
Jerome Groopman, M.D., Houghton Mifflin, $26, 9780618610037
11. Blackwater
Jeremy Scahill, Nation, $26.95, 9781560259794
12. Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney, Scribner, $25, 9781416532477
13. The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama, Crown, $25, 9780307237699
14. The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594200823
15. Marley & Me
John Grogan, Morrow, $21.95, 9780060817084
ON THE RISE:
21. Edith Wharton
Hermione Lee, Knopf, $35, 9780375400049
The definitive -- and long -- biography.
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTON
1. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781565125605
2. The Road
Cormac McCarthy, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307387899
3. Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400096275
4. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards, Penguin, $14, 9780143037149
5. The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai, Grove, $14, 9780802142818
6. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See, Random House, $13.95, 9780812968064
7. Rise and Shine
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $14.95, 9780812977813
8. The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri, Mariner, $14, 9780618485222
9. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl, Penguin, $15, 9780143112129
10. The History of Love
Nicole Krauss, Norton, $13.95, 9780393328622
11. The Whistling Season
Ivan Doig, Harvest, $14, 9780156031646
12. Everyman
Philip Roth, Vintage, $13, 9780307277718
13. Blue Shoes and Happiness
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $12.95, 9781400075713
14. The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $14, 9781594480003
15. The Alchemist (Updated)
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $13.95, 9780061122415
ON THE RISE:
26. Flight
Sherman Alexie, Black Cat, $13, 9780802170378
A coming of age with a twist: a troubled Native-American teenager travels back to times of violence in American history.
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15, 9780143038412
2. Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252
3. Mayflower
Nathaniel Philbrick, Penguin, $16, 9780143111979
4. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $13.95, 9781400078431
5. Blink
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $15.99, 9780316010665
6. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $14, 9780743247542
7. Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400077427
8. The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan, Mariner, $14.95, 9780618773473
9. A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut, Random House, $13.95, 9780812977363
10. The Measure of a Man
Sidney Poitier, HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95, 9780061357909
11. Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773
12. Armed Madhouse
Greg Palast, Plume, $15, 9780452288317
13. The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, Vintage, $14.95, 9780375725609
14. The Places in Between
Rory Stewart, Harvest, $14, 9780156031561
15. Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder, Random House, $14.95, 9780812973013
ON THE RISE:
18. The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
Anthony Bourdain, Bloomsbury, $14.95, 9781596913608
The truthful bits: tasty anecdotes and more from the salty author of Kitchen Confidential.
MASS MARKET
1. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $7.99, 9780440180296
2. Dead Watch
John Sandford, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425215692
3. The Hard Way
Lee Child, Dell, $7.99, 9780440241034
4. Two Little Girls in Blue
Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket, $7.99, 9780743497299
5. Through a Glass, Darkly
Donna Leon, Penguin, $7.99, 9780143038061
6. At Risk
Patricia D. Cornwell, Berkley, $7.99, 9780425214763
7. Promise Me
Harlan Coben, Signet, $9.99, 9780451219244
8. The Old Wine Shades
Martha Grimes, Signet, $9.99, 9780451220721
9. Gone
Jonathan Kellerman, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345452627
10. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $6.99, 9780446310789
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Sight
Erin W. Hunter, HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780060892012
2. Eldest
Christopher Paolini, Knopf, $12.99, 9780375840401
3. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick, Scholastic, $22.99, 9780439813785
4. Marley: A Dog Like No Other - Debut
John Grogan, Collins, $16.99, 9780061240331
5. Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
Lemony Snicket, HarperCollins, $12.99, 9780061240065
6. Twilight
Stephenie Meyer, Megan Tingley, $8.99, 9780316015844
7. The Penderwicks
Jeanne Birdsall, Yearling, $6.50, 9780440420477
8. New Moon
Stephenie Meyer, Megan Tingley, $17.99, 9780316160193
9. Eragon
Christopher Paolini, Laurel-Leaf, $6.99, 9780440238485
10. Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson, HarperEntertainment, $6.99, 9780061227288
11. Princess Academy
Shannon Hale, Bloomsbury, $7.95, 9781599900735
12. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, HarperEntertainment, $7.99, 9780061120268
13. An Inconvenient Truth (Adapted)
Al Gore, Viking, $16, 9780670062720
14. The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $7.99, 9780763625290
15. MuggleNet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7
Ben Schoen, et al., Ulysses, $13.95, 9781569755839
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780060542139
2. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr.Seuss, Random House, $17, 9780679805274
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), HarperCollins, $7.99, 9780694003617
4. Pirates Don't Change Diapers
Melinda Long, David Shannon (Illus.), Harcourt, $16, 9780152053536
5. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, HarperCollins, $16.95, 9780060254926
6. Fancy Nancy
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780060542092
7. Bad Dog, Marley! - Debut
John Grogan, Richard Cowdrey (Illus.), HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780061171147
8. Dog
Matthew Van Fleet, Brian Stanton (Illus.), S&S, $14.99, 9781416941378
9. Someday
Alison McGhee, Peter H. Reynolds (Illus.), Atheneum, $14.99, 9781416928119
10. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99, 9780307120007
11. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
12. The Incredible Book-Eating Boy - Debut
Oliver Jeffers, Philomel, $16.99, 9780399247491
13. Flotsam
David Wiesner, Clarion, $17, 9780618194575
14. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99, 9780399230035
15. The Amazing Spider-Man Pop-Up - Debut
Marvel Comics (Eds.), Candlewick, $24.99, 9780763632632
CHILDREN'S FICTION SERIES
1. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
2. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Miramax
3. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic
4. Alex Rider Adventures (hardcover and paperback)
Anthony Horowitz, John Blackford (Illus.), Puffin
5. Junie B. Jones (hardcover and paperback)
Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus (Illus.), Random House
6. Warriors (hardcover and paperback)
Erin W. Hunter, Avon
7. The Clique (paperback)
Lisi Harrison, Little, Brown
8. Gossip Girl (paperback)
Cecily von Ziegesar, Megan Tingley
9. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (hardcover and paperback)
Ann Brashares, Delacorte
10. The Adventures of Tintin (hardcover and paperback)
Herge, Little Brown
May We Recommend
Hardcover
FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES, by Min Jin Lee (Warner, $24.99, 9780446581080/0446581089) "Casey Han is well aware of the expectations of
her parents, first-generation Korean immigrants. She has the Princeton degree, the smarts, and the connections to secure the law degree they hope for. But Casey is set on finding her own answers. There are many story lines and remarkably limned characters in this engrossing and satisfying novel."-Betsey Detwiler, Buttonwood Books & Toys, Cohasset, MA
ONE PERFECT DAY: The Selling of the American Wedding, by Rebecca Mead (Penguin, $24.95, 9781594200885/1594200882) "This insightful book is social commentary dressed in a wedding gown! Mead's witty expose of 'Bridezilla' and her wedding culture also shines a light on consumerism, loss of tradition, and how we all try to regain sentiment and romance against the odds."-Peggy Sands, Millrace Books, Farmington, CT
Paperback
THE MOTEL LIFE: A Novel, by Willy Vlautin (Harper Perennial, $13.95, 9780061171116/ 0061171115) "After reading this book, I'm not surprised that author Willy Vlautin is a musician and poet. His debut novel is bleak, sad, and beautiful. Brothers Frank and Jerry Lee are on the run after a hit-and-run accident, and their journey is full of sorrow and wrong turns. The Motel Life is a rare novel that is worth every word on the page."-Jason Kennedy, Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, Milwaukee, WI
For Ages 9 to 12
AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley, by Ann Rinaldi (Harcourt, $17, 9780152055974/0152055975) "On the night of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Mary Todd Lincoln called frantically for her dressmaker and confidant, Lizzie Keckley. In spite of their different backgrounds, these women-who had both endured painful tragedies-became the closest of friends. Who knew history could be this fascinating?"-Cathy Berner, Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston, TX
