Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for April 25, 2002
from sales the week ending April 21
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HARDCOVER FICTION |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
1. |
The Nanny Diaries
Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus, 0312278586, St. Martin's, $24.95.
In a memoir thinly veiled as fiction, two nannies tell all about wealthy
NYC families and the way they treat their children's caretakers. |
1/7 |
2. |
Atonement
Ian McEwan, 0385503954, Doubleday, $26.
A brilliant new novel and Top Ten 76 Pick by the author of Enduring Love
and Amsterdam. |
2/6 |
3. |
Daddy's Little Girl - Debut
Mary Higgins Clark, 0743206045, S&S, $26.
Clark's new suspense novel about a chilling murder. |
-/1 |
4. |
City of Bones - Debut
Michael Connelly, 0316154059, Little Brown, $25.95.
Connelly's eighth in the bestselling Bosch series. |
-/1 |
5. |
Sea Glass
Anita Shreve, 0316780812, Little Brown, $25.95.
The newest novel from the author of The Last Time They Met and Fortune's
Rocks. |
3/2 |
6. |
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd, 0670894605, Viking, $24.95.
A #1 76 Pick, the story of a 14-year-old girl set in South Carolina in 1964. |
8/12 |
7. |
The Summons
John Grisham, 0385503822, Doubleday, $27.95.
His latest legal thriller. |
4/11 |
8. |
Hope Through Heartsongs
Mattie Stepanek, 0786869445, Hyperion, $14.95.
Award-winning poetry from an 11-year-old. |
15/2 |
9. |
The Bondwoman's Narrative
Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 0446530085, Warner, $24.95.
The first novel to be written by a black woman in America, as well a fugitive
slave. |
11/2 |
10. |
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
Stephen King, 0743235150, Scribner, $28.
New stories from the master of horror. |
9/3 |
11. |
Everything Is Illuminated - Debut;
#1 76 Pick
Jonathan Safran Foer, 0618173870, Houghton Mifflin, $24.
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-/1 |
12. |
Journey Through Heartsongs
Mattie Stepanek, 189362210X, Hyperion, $14.95.
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13. |
Widow's Walk
Robert B. Parker, 0399148450, Putnam, $24.95.
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-/12 |
14. |
The Golden One
Elizabeth Peters, 0380978857, William Morrow, $25.95.
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-/3 |
15. |
2nd Chance
James Patterson, 0316693200, Little Brown, $26.95.
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10/7 |
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ON THE RISE |
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22. |
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish
Richard Flanagan, 0802117112, Grove, $27.50.
A historical epic of 19th-century Australia. A 76 Pick.
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36. |
The Impressionist
Hari Kunzru, 052594642X, Dutton, $24.95.
The author's first, about a young man's near-mythical journey. A 76 Pick.
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