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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for September 30, 2004
from sales the week ending September 26, 2004
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TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini, 1594480001, Riverhead, $14
A Book Sense Pick, now in paperback. A stunning, enlightening novel of friendship
and Afghan culture and politics. |
2/22 |
| 2. |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon, 1400032717, Vintage, $12
This intriguing mystery and Book Sense Pick comes to paperback. A 2004 Book
Sense Book of the Year finalist. |
1/19 |
| 3. |
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri, 0618485228, Mariner, $14
A mesmerizing and melancholy Book Sense Pick about a first-generation Indian
family in America. |
3/9 |
| 4. |
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd, 0142001740, Penguin, $14
A Top Ten Pick in hardcover and Book Sense Book of the Year winner in paperback. |
4/86 |
| 5. |
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger, 015602943X, Harvest, $14
A winning and winsome Book Sense Pick and BSBY finalist about love and time
travel. Now in paperback. |
5/18 |
| 6. |
The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith, 1400034779, Anchor, $11.95
A Book Sense Pick, indie discovery, and massive bestseller. |
8/85 |
| 7. |
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides, 0312422156, Picador, $15
A Top Ten Pick and 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner, now out in paperback. |
7/54 |
| 8. |
The Known World
Edward P. Jones, 0060557559, Amistad, $13.95
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize is now in paperback. The antebellum South,
complete with black slave owners. |
6/18 |
| 9. |
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck, 0743272935, Washington Square, $14
The classic novel of China, chosen by the Pulitzer committee in 1932 and
by Oprah in 2004. |
9/2 |
| 10. |
Life of Pi
Yann Martel, 0156027321, Harvest, $14
A real winner -- a Top Ten Pick, twice a Book Sense Book of the Year Finalist,
and a Booker Prize winner. |
10/75 |
| 11. |
Old School
Tobias Wolff, 0375701494, Vintage, $12
The award-winning Wolff mulls over life and literature in this novel of
a small New England prep school in the '60s. |
11/3 |
| 12. |
Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith, 1400031354, Anchor, $11.95
Sequel to the fantastically popular The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency. |
15/78 |
| 13. |
The Wedding
Nicholas Sparks, 0446693332, Warner, $12.95
A sequel of sorts to the massive bestseller The Notebook. |
13/12 |
| 14. |
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold, 0316168815, Back Bay, $13.95
The surprising and amazing Lovely Bones is out in paperback. |
12/23 |
| 15. |
The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory, 0743227441, Scribner, $15
A novel of the luckier, lesser known Boleyn sister. |
14/5 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 24. |
Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor,
and Really Bad Weather
Jincy Willett, 031242423X, Picador, $14
A black comedy starring twin sisters and New England sensibilities.
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