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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for May 13, 2004
from sales the week ending May 9, 2004
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HARDCOVER FICTION |
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| 1. |
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown, 0385504209, Doubleday, $24.95
This bestselling phenomenon and Book Sense Pick is filled with biblical
conspiracies, symbols, and secrets. |
1/59
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| 2. |
The Full Cupboard of Life
Alexander McCall Smith, 0375422188, Pantheon, $19.95
The lady detective of Botswana is at it again in this fifth installment
of the folksy series. |
2/3
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| 3. |
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. |
3/33
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| 4. |
The Narrows - Debut
Michael Connelly, 0316155306, Little Brown, $25.95
A new dynamic thriller from the author of the bestselling Harry Bosch novels. |
/1
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| 5. |
The Birth of Venus
Sarah Dunant, 1400060737, Random House, $21.95
Mesmerizing, sexy, and startling, says Susan Avery of Ariel Booksellers.
(And a Book Sense Pick to boot.) |
4/12
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| 6. |
The Jane Austen Book Club
Karen Joy Fowler, 0399151613, Putnam, $23.95
For Austen fans and newbies alike, in or out of book clubs. A smart new
Book Sense Pick. |
6/2
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| 7. |
Just One Look
Harlan Coben, 0525947914, Dutton, $25.95
A new twisty thriller from an award-winning mystery writer. |
5/2
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| 8. |
Eventide - Debut
Kent Haruf, 0375411585, Knopf, $24.95
A sequel to the indie favorite Plainsong and a top Book Sense Pick on its
own. |
/1
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| 9. |
Islands
Anne Rivers Siddons, 0066211115, HarperCollins, $24.95
Friends live the charmed life in the Carolina low country in the bestselling
Siddons' 15th novel. |
7/5
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| 10. |
Nighttime Is My Time
Mary Higgins Clark, 074320607X, S&S, $25.95
Creepy, fast-moving suspense -- a man takes revenge against all the girls
in high school who dissed him. |
10/5
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| 11. |
Good Grief
Lolly Winston, 0446533041, Warner, $18
This #1 Book Sense Pick follows a young widow's unsentimental journey through
the stages of grief after the loss of her husband. |
9/5
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| 12. |
The Known World
Edward P. Jones, 0060557540, Amistad/HarperCollins, $24.95
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize! Not to mention, a Top Ten 76 Pick and Today
Show read. A masterful, atmospheric story of slaves and black masters. |
8/5
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| 13. |
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 1594200106, Penguin, $24.95
Book Sense Pick and a bestseller in Spain. A bookseller's son is obsessed
with a writer discovered in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. |
14/2
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| 14. |
The Last Juror
John Grisham, 0385510438, Doubleday, $27.95
Grisham returns with a legal thriller/mystery, softened by atmosphere and
character. |
/13
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| 15. |
Bergdorf Blondes - Debut
Plum Sykes, 1401351964, Miramax Books, $23.95
Ah, more on the good life: New York City, bleaching hair, and endless spending. |
/1
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ON THE RISE |
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| 44. |
Nothing Lost
John Gregory Dunne, 1400041430, Knopf, $24.95
Dunne's final novel depicts an over-the-top, racially motivated murder trial
in the American heartland.
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