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Bestseller List for May 8, 2008from sales the week ending May 4, 2008
| | Trade
Paperback Fiction | Last Week/
Weeks on List | | 1. | Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781565125605
An indie fave about
a traveling circus comes to paperback. The 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Fiction Winner. | 1/56
| | 2. | Loving Frank
Nancy Horan,
Ballantine, $14, 9780345495006
Horan's fictionalized account of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney's love story
is now available in paperback. | 2/4 | | 3. | Out Stealing Horses - Debut
Per Petterson,
Picador, $14, 9780312427085
A widower's recollections of a day with his childhood friend. A Book Sense Spring - Summer
2008 Reading Group Pick. | /1 | | 4. | The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Debut
Michael
Chabon, Harper Perennial, $15.95, 9780007149834
A fanciful and believable tale of a Yiddish-speaking detective in Alaska.
A Book Sense Pick and bestseller in hardcover. | /1 | | 5. | Divisadero
Michael Ondaatje, Vintage, $13.95, 9780307279323
A spellbinding and passionate
novel from the author of The English Patient. A Book Sense Pick in hardcover. | 6/2
| | 6. | The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs, Berkley, $14, 9780425219096
Great summer reading choice. Jacobs new book,
Comfort Food is now out, too! | 3/18 | | 7. | The Gathering
Anne Enright, Black Cat, $14, 9780802170392
Enright's newest novel
about a large Irish family gathering for a wake for one of their own. | 4/28 | | 8. | Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult, Washington Square,
$15, 9780743496735
Picoult's novel, about a mass shooting at a highschool, is a timely choice
for young adult readers and another suberb conversation-sustainer for book clubs. | 5/13 | | 9. | Peony in Love
Lisa See, Random House, $14, 9780812975222
A romantic ghost story set in 17th-century China, from the author of Snow
Flower and the Secret Fan. | 10/11 | | 10. | The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $12.95, 9781400075720
The eighth installment in the popular No. 1 Ladies' Detective series is now available in paperback. | 8/8 | | 11. | Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400096275
Paris under the Germans, by an author interned at Auschwitz. A bestseller
in hardcover too. | 9/56 | | 12. | The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $15, 9781594480003
A Book Sense Pick.
A stunning, enlightening novel of friendship and Afghan culture and politics. | /207
| | 13. | The Road
Cormac McCarthy,
Vintage, $14.95, 9780307387899
A barren, post-apocalyptic landscape is the foreground, and background, for this Pulitzer
Prize-winning Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book and Oprah Book Club choice. | 7/58
| | 14. | The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards, Penguin, $14, 9780143037149
A tragic snap-decision about a handicapped baby, played out among the affected.
Recently made into a Hallmark made-for-TV movie. | 13/89 | | 15. | After Dark - Debut
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $13.95, 9780307278739
Three compelling stories over the course of a single night in Tokyo. | /1 |
| | Trade Paperback Nonfiction | Last Week/
Weeks on List
| | 1. | A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle,
Plume, $14, 9780452289963
This follow-up to The Power of Now is the latest Oprah Book Club pick. | 1/14 | | 2. | Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252
An American's effort to open 50 schools across
rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. A Book Sense Notable title. | 2/66 | | 3. | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
- Debut
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper Perennial, $14.95,
9780060852566
The Kingsolver family moves to a rural Virginia farm and vows to eat locally for one year. A Book Sense
Spring - Summer 2008 Reading Group Pick. Pick a copy up on your way to the Ottawa Farmers'
Market (opening May 17th). | /1 | | 4. | Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15, 9780143038412
The author's yearlong
search for spiritual meaning. | 3/67 | | 5. | The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle, New World, $14, 9781577314806
More millions to sell
in paperback! | 4/35 | | 6. | The
Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $16, 9780143038580
A hard-boiled look at the food chain. | 5/36 | | 7. | Dreams
From My Father
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773
An elegant memoir of race and place from
the presidential hopeful. | 7/76 | | 8. | The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307237705
Hope as a precursor
to presidential ambitions. Now available in paperback in time for a surge in the polls. | 6/19
| | 9. | I Feel Bad About My Neck
Nora Ephron, Vintage, $12.95, 9780307276827
The 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Nonfiction Winner is finally available
in paperback. | 9/4 | | 10. | Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Free Press, $15, 9780743289696
Ali, a Somali-born member of the Dutch parliament, gives a view of
violence against women in the Muslim world. | 10/5 | | 11. | Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
- Debut
Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Bantam, $12, 9780553384246
Kalish's
bestseller is a Book Sense Spring - Summer 2008 Reading Group Pick. I predict this will be on many book
clubs' lists this coming season. | /1 | | 12. | Merle's Door
Ted Kerasote, Harvest, $15, 9780156034500
Kerasote's heartwarming
story of life with his Labrador mix, Merle. | 11/3 | | 13. | Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
John Grogan, Harper, $13.95,
9780060817091
The top Book Sense Pick for November 2005 in hardcover. Finally available in paperback! | 8/8 | | 14. | Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307387172
This heartbreaking story of the demise of a "lost" young man
is now a movie. Check out Krakauer's other adventure tales. | 12/36 | | 15. | The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9780743247542
A lovely telling of a most bizarre upbringing. A Book Sense Pick in hardcover. | 13/120 | | | ON
THE RISE | | | 17. | The
Assault on Reason
Al Gore, Penguin, $16, 9780143113621
Thoughtful, well-reasoned, and now available in
paperback. | |
| | Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/
Weeks on List | | 1. | Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri, Knopf, $25, 9780307265739
The latest collection of stories by the author of The Namesake is
an April Book Sense Pick. | 1/5 | | 2. | The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $22.95, 9780375424489
Precious Ramotswe is back in the latest installment of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. | 2/3 | | 3. | The Plague of Doves
- Debut
Louise Erdrich, Harper, $25.95, 9780060515126
Erdrich's wonderful
13th novel is a May 2008 Book Sense Pick. | /1 | | 4. | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz, Riverhead, $24.95, 9781594489587
There's
been major critical acclaim for this sci-fi journey from the Dominican Republic to the U.S. and back. | 6/13 | | 5. | The Whole Truth
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446195973
Defense contractors manipulate global conflicts in Baldacci's
latest thriller. | 3/2 | | 6. | Sundays at Tiffany's - Debut
James Patterson,
Gabrielle Charbonnet, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316014779
A love story about a lonely woman reunited with a friend from
her childhood. | /1 | | 7. | The
Girl With No Shadow
Joanne Harris, Morrow, $24.95, 9780061431623
The sequel to the bestseller Chocolat
is a May Book Sense Pick. | 10/3 | | 8. | A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $25.95, 9781594489501
Splendid
characters and plot indeed, once again set in Afghanistan, by the author of the wondrous The Kite Runner. A June
Book Sense Pick. | 5/50 | | 9. | Hold Tight
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $26.95, 9780525950608
Parenthood, teen rebellion,
the Internet, and a killer at large all factor into Coben's latest thriller. | 4/3 | | 10. | Red Bird: Poems
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $23, 9780807068922
A new volume of poems by one of the nation's bestselling and most beloved poets. | 9/7
| | 11. | Lush Life
Richard Price,
FSG, $26, 9780374299255
Price's new novel focuses on the repercussions of a crime committed on the Lower East Side
of Manhattan. | 7/9 | | 12. | So
Brave, Young, and Handsome - Debut
Leif Enger, Atlantic Monthly,
$24, 9780871139856
The highly anticipated second novel from the author of Peace Like a River is a May Book Sense
Pick. | /1 | | 13. | The
Appeal
John Grisham, Doubleday, $27.95, 9780385515047
Grisham returns with his first legal thriller in
three years. | 8/14 | | 14. | Where
Are You Now?
Mary Higgins Clark, S&S, $25.95, 9781416566380
A young law clerk searches for her long-missing
brother in Clark's latest thriller. | /3 | | 15. | People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $25.95, 9780670018215
The sweeping new
novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March. A January 2008 Book Sense Pick. A multi-layered
story with superbly crafted twists and turns. A fun DaVinci Code-, Accordion Tales-like narrative. | /16 | | | ON
THE RISE | | | 21. | The
Girl of His Dreams
Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly, $24, 9780871139801
The captivating 17th Commissario Guido
Brunetti mystery. | |
| | Hardcover Nonfiction | Last Week/
Weeks on List | | 1. | The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401323257
The life-affirming "last lecture" by Pausch, a professor at
Carnegie Mellon University, who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. The choice
this spring for that newly graduated student! | 1/4 | | 2. | Just Who Will You Be?
Maria Shriver, Hyperion, $14.95, 9781401323189
Shriver offers
hope and inspiration and reminds people it's not too late to be the person you want to be. | 2/3 | | 3. | A Wolf at the Table: A
Memoir of My Father - Debut
Augusten Burroughs, St. Martin's,
$24.95, 9780312342029
Burroughs recounts his relationship with his aloof, distant father. | /1 | | 4. | In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $21.95, 9781594201455
Pollan's answers to the questions he raised in his bestselling
The Omnivore's Dilemma. | 3/18 | | 5. | Armageddon in Retrospect
Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut, Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155086
This collection
of previously unpublished writings is an April Book Sense Notable title. | 4/5 | | 6. | Ladies of Liberty
Cokie Roberts, Morrow, $26.95,
9780060782344
Political commentator Roberts looks at some of the most influential women in American history. | 5/4 | | 7. | Bonk
Mary Roach, Norton, $24.95, 9780393064643
An interesting and humorous look at sex and science, from the author of Spook:
Science Tackles the Afterlife. | 9/5 | | 8. | Home
Julie Andrews, Hyperion, $26.95, 9780786865659
Andrews tell her story from her
birth in 1935 to being cast as Mary Poppins in 1962. | 8/5 | | 9. | A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World - Debut
Tony Horwitz, Holt, $27.50, 9780805076035
This fresh, lively look at the discovery of the New World is a May Book Sense
Pick. | /1 | | 10. | A
Remarkable Mother - Debut
Jimmy Carter, S&S, $22.95, 9781416562450
The former president's biography of his truly remarkable mother, Lillian. | /1 | | 11. | What Now?
Ann Patchett, Harper, $14.95, 9780061340659
Patchett's new book is based on her stirring graduation address at Sarah Lawrence College. | 7/3 | | 12. | The Secret
Rhonda Byrne, Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95, 9781582701707
A collection of wisdom and philosophies to improve our daily
lives. | 11/63 | | 13. | Beautiful
Boy
David Sheff, Houghton Mifflin, $24, 9780618683352
This moving story of a father's love for his
drug addicted son is a Book Sense Notable title. | 6/10 | | 14. | Girls Like Us
Sheila Weller, Atria, $27.95, 9780743491471
This insightful biography
of three of the most important women in the history of rock is an April Book Sense Pick. | 12/4
| | 15. | The Post-American World
- Debut
Fareed Zakaria, Norton, $25.95, 9780393062359
Zakaria's follow-up
to his bestseller, The Future of Freedom. | /1 | | | ON THE RISE | | | 20. | I Before E (Except After C): Old-School Ways to Remember Stuff
Judy Parkinson, Reader's
Digest, $14.95, 9780762109173
Easy tips for remembering those small, yet important facts. | |
| | Mass Market | Last Week/
Weeks on List | | 1. | Suffer the Little Children - Debut
Donna Leon, Penguin, $7.99, 9780143113614 | /1 | | 2. | The Woods
Harlan Coben, Signet, $9.99, 9780451221957 | 1/5
| | 3. | Simple Genius
David Baldacci,
Grand Central, $9.99, 9780446618731 | 2/6 | | 4. | Bad Luck and Trouble
Lee Child, Dell, $7.99, 9780440243663 | 3/6
| | 5. | The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett, Signet, $7.99, 9780451166890 | 4/30 | | 6. | Invisible Prey - Debut
John Sandford, Berkley,
$9.99, 9780425221150 | /1 | | 7. | Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Betrayal - Debut
Eric Van Lustbader, Vision, $9.99, 9780446618809 | /1 | | 8. | The Innocent Man
John Grisham, Dell, $7.99, 9780440243830 | 9/24
| | 9. | The Good Guy - Debut
Dean Koontz, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553589115 | /1
| | 10. | Up in Honey's Room
- Debut
Elmore Leonard, Harper, $9.99, 9780060724269 | /1 |
| | Children's Interest | | | 1. | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810994737 | | | 2. | Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810993136 | | | 3. | The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $11.99, 9780375842207 | | | 4. | The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart,
Little Brown, $6.99, 9780316003957 | | | 5. | Lock
and Key
Sarah Dessen, Viking, $18.99, 9780670010882 | | | 6. | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie, Little Brown, $16.99, 9780316013680 | | | 7. | Tweak
Nic
Sheff, Ginee Seo, $16.99, 9781416913627 | | | 8. | The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick, Scholastic, $22.99, 9780439813785 | | | 9. | The Giver
Lois
Lowry, Laurel-Leaf, $6.99, 9780440237686 | | | 10. | The Moms' Book: For the Mom Who's Best at Everything - Debut
Alison Maloney, Scholastic, $9.99, 9780545042116 | | | 11. | Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Puffin Classics Ed.)
Jules Verne, Puffin, $4.99, 9780141321042 | | | 12. | Just Listen
Sarah Dessen, Puffin, $8.99, 9780142410974 | | | 13. | The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $9.99, 9780763639877 | | | 14. | The Girls' Book
Juliana Foster, Scholastic, $9.99, 9780545016292 | | | 15. | The Calder Game
Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist (Illus.), Scholastic, $17.99, 9780439852074 | |
| | Children's Illustrated | | | 1. | Gallop!
Rufus Butler Seder, Workman, $12.95, 9780761147633 | | | 2. | Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd
(Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617 | | | 3. | Fancy Nancy's Favorite Fancy Words
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.),
Harper, $12.99, 9780061549236 | | | 4. | Oh,
the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $17.99, 9780679805274 | | | 5. | Read All About It!
Laura Bush, Jenna Bush, Denise
Brunkus (Illus.), Harper, $17.99, 9780061560750 | | | 6. | Alphabet
Matthew Van Fleet, S&S, $19.99, 9781416955658 | | | 7. | The Pigeon Wants a Puppy
Mo Willems, Hyperion,
$14.99, 9781423109600 | | | 8. | Fancy
Nancy Bonjour, Butterfly
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper, $16.99, 9780061235887 | | | 9. | Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $17.95, 9780060254926 | | | 10. | Fancy Nancy and the Boy From Paris
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper,
$3.99, 9780061236099 | | | 11. | Fancy
Nancy at the Museum
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper, $3.99, 9780061236075 | | | 12. | Fancy Nancy
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser
(Illus.), Harper, $16.99, 9780060542092 | | | 13. | Horton Hears a Who!
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $14.95, 9780394800783 | | | 14. | Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99,
9780307120007 | | | 15. | Love
You Forever
Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw (Illus.), Firefly, $5.95, 9780920668375 | |
| | Children's Series | | 1. | Twilight (hardcover and paperback)
Stephenie Meyer,
Megan Tingley | | 2. | Magic Tree House (hardcover
and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House | | 3. | Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Miramax | | 4. | Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling,
Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine | | 5. | Junie B. Jones
(hardcover and paperback)
Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus (Illus.), Random House | | 6. | Warriors (hardcover and paperback)
Erin W. Hunter, HarperCollins | | 7. | Alex Rider Adventures (hardcover and paperback)
Anthony Horowitz, Puffin | | 8. | The Penderwicks (hardcover)
Jeanne Birdsall, Knopf | | 9. | The Clique (paperback)
Lisi Harrison, Little Brown | | 10. | Septimus Heap (hardcover and paperback)
Angie
Sage, Katherine Tegen |
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