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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for April 23, 2001
from sales the week ending April 15
Online at www.bookweb.org Thursday, April 19
Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, April 23
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TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
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Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
Girl With A Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier, 0452282152, Plume, $12.00.
A wonderful historical fiction built around Vermeer's household, and the
relationship between the artist and a young servant woman. |
1/14 |
| 2. |
Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding, 0141000198, Penguin, $12.95.
The longtime British bestseller moves back up the list on the tails of the
upcoming movie. |
4/2 |
| 3. |
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant, 0312195516, Picador, $14.00.
A fascinating re-imagining of the biblical Dinah, daughter to Jacob and
Leah, as well as the lives of all women during that time. |
2/65 |
| 4. |
Girl In Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland, 014029628X, Penguin, $12.00.
Eight vibrant stories that trace the history of a Vermeer painting through
its various owners. A Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick. |
3/27 |
| 5. |
Chocolat
Joanne Harris, 014100018X, Penguin, $12.95.
An enchanting novel about a woman who opens an irresistible chocolate shop
in a tiny town in France. |
5/66 |
| 6. |
Icy Sparks
Gwyn Hyman Rubio, 0142000205, Penguin, $13.95.
A young girl in 1950's Appalachia discovers that she has Tourette's syndrome. |
7/66 |
| 7. |
House Of Sand and Fog
Andre Dubus III, 0375727345, Vintage, $13.00.
In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three people become
dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. |
6/54 |
| 8. |
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Helen Fielding, 0140298479, Penguin, $13.00.
More from the inimitable Bridget Jones. |
15/8 |
| 9. |
We Were the Mulvaneys
Joyce Carol Oates, 0452282829, Plume, $13.95.
The Mulvaneys are that rare thing, a happy, prosperous family, but a violent
act and its repercussions threaten to destroy them. |
9/12 |
| 10. |
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri, 039592720X, Mariner, $12.00.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories set in both India and America. |
12/26 |
| 11. |
Horse Heaven
Jane Smiley, 0449005410, Ballantine, $14.95.
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11/7 |
| 12. |
Plainsong
Kent Haruf, 0375705856, Vintage, $13.00.
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10/27 |
| 13. |
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver, 0060930535, Perennial, $14.00.
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13/72 |
| 14. |
Ahab's Wife
Sena Jeter Naslund, 0688177859, Perennial, $15.00.
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8/24 |
| 15. |
Fortune's Rocks
Anita Shreve, 0316678104, Back Bay, $13.95.
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14/14 |
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ON THE RISE
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| 36. |
No Great Mischief
Alistair MacLeod, 0375726659, Vintage, $13.00.
A memorable and moving novel about three centuries in the life of a Scottish
family living in Nova Scotia. A 'Book Sense 76' Pick. |
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