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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for January 29, 2004
from sales the week ending January 25, 2004
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| HARDCOVER FICTION | Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown, 0385504209, Doubleday, $24.95
This bestselling phenomenon and 76 Pick is filled with biblical conspiracies, symbols, and secrets. |
1/44 |
| 2. |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom, 0786868716, Hyperion, $19.95
The author of the hugely popular Tuesdays With Morrie fictionalizes
the next step in that conversation -- life after death. |
2/18 |
| 3. |
Absolute Friends
John le Carr�, 0316000647, Little, Brown, $26.95
Never just a "spy novelist," le Carr� hits the mark in the contemporary world with his enduring themes of character, honor, and morality. |
4/2 |
| 4. |
The Amateur Marriage
Anne Tyler, 1400042070, Knopf, $24.95
The slow dissolution of a 30-year relationship, masterfully captured by the inimitable Tyler. |
3/3 |
| 5. |
The Lady and the Unicorn
Tracy Chevalier, 0525947671, Dutton, $23.95
Chevalier once again weaves literary drama from the imaginings of art; this time, tapestries from the Middle Ages. |
5/4 |
| 6. |
Mr. Paradise
Elmore Leonard, 0060083956, Morrow, $25.95
The cinematic Mr. Leonard returns to Detroit for his usual "dramedy" kind of crime thriller. |
8/2 |
| 7. |
The Murder Room
P.D. James, 1400041414, Knopf, $25.95
James' latest Adam Dalgliesh novel. The real thing comes to a museum that houses an exhibit devoted to murder. |
7/10 |
| 8. |
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
Elisabeth Robinson, 0316735027, Little, Brown, $23.95
Moving, funny and insightful, this epistolary novel set in Hollywood is a joy to read. |
15/3 |
| 9. |
Pompeii
Robert Harris, 0679428895, Random House, $24.95
Historical suspense, fast and exciting from a writer (Fatherland,
Enigma) who has the genre down pat. |
6/9 |
| 10. |
New Spring
Robert Jordan, 0765306298, Tor, $22.95
The first prequel to The Wheel of Time series. |
9/3 |
| 11. |
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri, 0395927218, Houghton Mifflin, $24
India meets America, uneasily. Critics are in love with this first novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lahiri. A 76 Pick. |
10/23 |
| 12. |
Old School
Tobias Wolff, 0375401466, Knopf, $22
The award winning Wolff mulls over life and literature in this novel of a small New England prep school in the 60s. |
14/10 |
| 13. |
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger, 1931561648, MacAdam/Cage, $25
A unique, rich look at love, unfettered by the details of time. A 76 Pick
and Today Show pick! |
12/14 |
| 14. |
Retreat, Hell!
W.E.B Griffin, 0399150811, Putnam, $26.95
The next Corps novel from this prolific writer. |
11/3 |
| 15. |
The Zero Game - Debut
Brad Meltzer, 0446530980, Warner, $25.95
The Senate in all its glory takes center stage in this D.C. thriller. |
/1 |
| ON THE RISE |
| 21. |
Oracle Night
Paul Auster, 0805073205, Holt, $23
An intricate, intriguing tale of a novelist and a mysterious notebook. A 76 Pick. |
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