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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for August 13, 2001
from sales the week ending August 5
Online at www.bookweb.org Wednesday, August 8
Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, August 13
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HARDCOVER FICTION
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Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
The Fourth Hand
John Irving, 0375506276, Random House, $26.95.
The latest novel by the author of The World According to Garp begins with
a TV journalist getting his hand eaten by a lion -- and gets even wilder. |
1/4 |
| 2. |
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
James Patterson, 0316969443, Little Brown, $22.95.
A dramatic departure for Edgar Award-winning author of the Alex Cross mystery
series. |
2/3 |
| 3. |
A Traitor to Memory
Elizabeth George, 0553801279, Bantam, $26.95.
The 11th in the series starring the Scotland yard detective Thomas Lynley. |
4/5 |
| 4. |
Blue Diary
Alice Hoffman, 0399148027, Putnam, $24.95.
A seemingly golden couple's happiness is destroyed when a past murder is
revealed. |
5/3 |
| 5. |
Back When We Were Grownups
Anne Tyler, 0375412530, Knopf, $25.00.
Anne Tyler's latest revolves around a woman who, at 53, decides that she's
living the wrong life. |
3/12 |
| 6. |
How to Be Good
Nick Hornby, 1573221937, Riverhead, $24.95.
London doctor Katie Carr is on the edge of leaving her husband when he undergoes
a surprising change. |
7/4 |
| 7. |
The Wind Done Gone
Alice Randall, 061810450X, Houghton Mifflin, $22.00.
The hotly debated parody of Gone with the Wind. |
8/7 |
| 8. |
Tell No One
Harlan Coben, 0385335555, Delacorte, $22.95.
A man searches desperately to discover what really happened when his wife
was murdered eight years before in this Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick. |
9/5 |
| 9. |
Cane River
Lalita Tademy, 0446530522, Warner, $24.95.
A fictionalized account of the lives of four of Tademy's African-American woman
ancestors, from slavery to the pre-Civil Rights South. |
6/5 |
| 10. |
Rise to Rebellion
Jeff Shaara, 034542753X, Ballantine, $26.95.
A novelization of the Civil War by the author of Gone for Soldiers. |
12/4 |
| 11. |
Miss Julia Takes Over
Ann B. Ross, 0670910260, Viking, $24.95.
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-/1 |
| 12. |
Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver, 0060199652, HarperCollins, $26.00.
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11/80 |
| 13. |
P Is for Peril
Sue Grafton, 0399147195, Putnam, $26.95.
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10/8 |
| 14. |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon, 0679450041, Random House, $26.95.
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13/17 |
| 15. |
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett, 0060188731, HarperCollins, $25.00.
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15/2 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 34. |
Fearless Jones
Walter Mosley, 0316592382, Little Brown, $24.95.
With a fast pace and many plot twists and turns, Mosley creates some great
characters while sharing insights and morals. I highly recommend this book."
- Joan Witlock, Stacey's, Cupertino, CA |
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