Lists of Best-Selling Books
Thursday, April 26, 2007
WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS
FICTION
1. "The Children of Hurin" by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin)
2. "The Woods" by Harlan Coben (Dutton Adult)
3. "The Good Husband of Zebra Drive" by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon)
4. "I Heard That Song Before" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)
5. "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult (Atria)
6. "Fresh Disasters" by Stuart Woods (Putnam)
7. "Obsession" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine Books)
8. "White Night" by Jim Butcher (Roc)
9. "Sleeping With Strangers" by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton)
10. "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mohsin Hamid (Harcourt)
11. "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
12. "Land of Mango Sunsets" by Dorothea Benton Frank (William Morrow)
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13. "Whitethorn Woods" by Maeve Binchy (Knopf)
14. "The Alibi Man" by Tami Hoag (Bantam)
15. "Step on a Crack" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)
NONFICTION
1. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words)
2. "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
3. "The Cardio-Free Diet" by Jim Karas (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
4. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
5. "Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World" by Craig Kielburger, Marc Kielburger (Fireside)
6. "Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance" by Marcus Buckingham (Free Press)
7. "The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About" by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance)
8. "Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'" by Paula Deen, Sherry Suib Cohen (Simon & Schuster)
9. "Everyday Pasta" by Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter)
10. "The Angel Inside" by Chris Widener (Currency)
11. "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" by Lee Iacocca (Scribner)
12. "Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny" by Suze Orman (Spiegel & Grau)
13. "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't" by Jim Collins (Collins)
14. "Chasing Life" by Sanjay Gupta, M.D. (Wellness Central)
15. "How Doctors Think" by Jerome Groopman (Houghton Mifflin)
The Wall Street Journal's list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books during the week ended last Saturday at more than 2,500 Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton, Bookland, Books-a-Million, Books & Co., Bookstar, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Coles, Coopersmith, Doubleday, Scribners and Waldenbooks stores, as well as sales from online retailers Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.
USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS
Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
1. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words) (NF-H)
2. "The Children of Hurin" by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) (F-H)
3. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage) (F-P)
4. "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) (NF-H)
5. "The 5th Horseman" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Warner Books) (F-P)
6. "The Woods" by Harlan Coben (Dutton Adult) (F-H)
7. "Captive of My Desires" by Johanna Lindsey (Pocket) (F-P)
8. "Two Little Girls in Blue" by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket)(F-P)
9. "At Risk" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley) (F-P)
10. "Gone" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine Books) (F-P)
11. "Hot Stuff" by Janet Evanovich, Leanne Banks (St. Martin's Paperbacks) (F-P)
12. "I Heard That Song Before" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) (F-H)
13. "The Good Husband of Zebra Drive" by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon) (F-H)
14. "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards (Penguin) (F-P)
15. "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books) (NF-P)
16. "The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About" by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance) (NF-H)
17. "The Measure of a Man" by Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco) (NF-P)
18. "Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'" by Paula Deen, Sherry Suib Cohen (Simon & Schuster) (NF-H)
19. "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult (Atria) (F-H)
20. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) (NF-P)
21. "Eldest: Inheritance, Book II" by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers) (F-P)
22. "The Glass Castle: A Memoir" by Jeannette Walls (Scribner) (NF-P)
23. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (NF-H)
24. "Promise Me" by Harlan Coben (Signet) (F-P)
25. "Judge & Jury" by James Patterson, Andrew Gross (Warner) (F-P)
26. "Everyday Pasta" by Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter) (NF-H)
27. "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky (Vintage) (F-P)
28. "Fresh Disasters" by Stuart Woods (Putnam) (F-H)
29. "The Hard Way" by Lee Child (Dell) (F-P)
30. "McKettrick's Heart" by Linda Lael Miller (HQN) (F-P)
31. "Second Sight" by Amanda Quick (Jove) (F-P)
32. "The Cardio-Free Diet" by Jim Karas (Simon Spotlight Entertainment) (NF-H)
33. "Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny" by Suze Orman (Spiegel & Grau) (NF-H)
34. "You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management" by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press) (NF-H)
35. "Kingdom Come: The Final Victory" by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale) (F-H)
36. "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" by Lee Iacocca (Scribner) (NF-H)
37. "Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance" by Marcus Buckingham (Free Press) (NF-H)
38. "Fruits Basket, Volume 16" by Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop) (F-P)
39. "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut (Dial Press) (F-P)
40. "Obsession" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine Books) (F-H)
41. "The MacGregors: Daniel & Ian" by Nora Roberts (Silhouette) (F-P)
42. "Mugglenet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7" by Ben Schoen, Emerson Spartz, Andy Gordon, Gretchen Stull, Jamie Lawrence (Ulysses) (NF-P)
43. "90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life" by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell) (NF-P)
44. "The Inheritance of Loss" by Kiran Desai (The Grove Press) (F-P)
45. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) (F-P)
46. "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See (Random House) (F-P)
47. "Prior Bad Acts" by Tami Hoag (Bantam) (F-P)
48. "Night" by Elie Wiesel, translation by Marion Wiesel (Hill and Wang) (NF-P)
49. "Love Walked In" by Marisa de los Santos (Plume) (F-P)
50. "The Perils of Pursuing a Prince" by Julia London (Pocket Star) (F-P)
Reporting stores include: Amazon.com, B. Dalton Bookseller, Barnes & Noble.com, Barnes & Noble Inc., Books-A-Million and Bookland, Booksamillion.com, Borders Books & Music, Bookstar, Bookstop, Brentano's, Davis Kidd Booksellers in Nashville, Jackson, Memphis, Tenn., Doubleday Book Shops, Hudson Booksellers, Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Lexington, Ky.; Cincinnati, Cleveland), Powell's Books (Portland, Ore.), Powells.com, R.J. Julia Booksellers (Madison, Conn.), Schuler Books & Music (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Target, Tattered Cover Book Store (Denver), Waldenbooks.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage)
2. "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards (Penguin)
3. "The Measure of a Man" by Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco)
4. "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books)
5. "The Glass Castle: A Memoir" by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)
6. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
7. "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky (Vintage)
8. "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion (Vintage)
9. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho (Harper)
10. "Everyday Food: Great Food Fast" by Martha Stewart (Clarkson Potter)
11. "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books)
12. "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut (Dial)
13. "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See (Random House)
14. "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)
15. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
NONFICTION/GENERAL
1. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words)
2. "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
3. "The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About" by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance)
4. "Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'" by Paula Deen, Sherry Suib Cohen (Simon & Schuster)
5. "The Cardio-Free Diet" by Jim Karas (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
6. "Everyday Pasta" by Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter)
7. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
8. "Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny" by Suze Orman (Spiegel & Grau)
9. "You: On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management" by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press)
10. "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" by Lee Iacocca (Scribner)
11. "Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance" by Marcus Buckingham (Free Press)
12. "Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World" by Craig Kielburger, Marc Kielburger (Fireside)
13. "Chasing Life" by Sanjay Gupta, M.D. (Warner Wellness)
14. "How Doctors Think" by Jerome Groopman (Houghton Mifflin)
15. "Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right" by Bernard Goldberg (HarperCollins)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "Hot Stuff" by Janet Evanovich, Leanne Banks (St. Martin's Paperbacks)
2. "Two Little Girls in Blue" by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket)
3. "At Risk" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)
4. "Captive of My Desires" by Johanna Lindsey (Pocket)
5. "The Perils of Pursuing a Prince" by Julia London (Pocket Star)
6. "Promise Me" by Harlan Coben (Signet)
7. "Gone" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine Books)
8. "The Hard Way" by Lee Child (Dell)
9. "Judge & Jury" by James Patterson, Andrew Gross (Warner)
10. "McKettrick's Heart" by Linda Lael Miller (HQN)
11. "Second Sight" by Amanda Quick (Jove)
12. "The Secret Passion of Simon Blackwell" by Samantha James (Avon)
13. "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut (Laurel)
14. "The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires" by Katie MacAlister (Signet)
15. "Prior Bad Acts" by Tami Hoag (Bantam)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage)
2. "The 5th Horseman" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Warner Books)
3. "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards (Penguin)
4. "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books)
5. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
6. "The Glass Castle: A Memoir" by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)
7. "The Measure of a Man" by Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco)
8. "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky (Vintage)
9. "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut (Dial)
10. "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion (Vintage)
11. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
12. "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See (Random House)
13. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
14. "Life: The Original Picture Puzzle" by Editors of Life Magazine (Life)
15. "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)
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