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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for May 19, 2005
from sales the week ending May 15, 2005
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Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
The Mermaid Chair
Sue Monk Kidd, Viking, $24.95, 0670033944
Better than (and different from) The Secret Life of Bees? You bet,
says bookseller Tara O'Donnell of Paperbacks Plus, Riverdale, NY. A Book
Sense Pick. |
1/6 |
| 2. |
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $19.95, 0375422714
The sixth book in the wonderful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, and
perhaps the best yet. |
2/4 |
| 3. |
Zorro
Isabel Allende, HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060778970
The "origins of the legend" in the hands of a supreme storyteller. A June
Book Sense Pick. |
7/2 |
| 4. |
Saturday
Ian McEwan, Nan A. Talese, $26, 0385511809
A single day, a British neurosurgeon, the beginning of the century, the
masterful McEwan. A Book Sense Pick from the author of Atonement.
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4/8 |
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True Believer
Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $24.95, 0446532436
A new love story from the author of The Notebook. |
3/5 |
| 6. |
4th of July
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Little Brown, $27.95, 0316710601
The 4th installment in the Women's Murder Club. Another juicy murder mystery
in Northern California! |
8/2 |
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Gilead
Marilynne Robinson, FSG, $23, 0374153892
The #1 December Book Sense Pick. "A deep and lovely novel." -- Terry Flynn,
Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA |
6/22 |
| 8. |
The Hot Kid - Debut
Elmore Leonard, William Morrow, $25.95, 0060724226
Leonard returns to the West, setting this caper in dusty, gritty, mob-riddled
30s Oklahoma. |
/1 |
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Broken Prey - Debut
John Sandford, Putnam, $26.95, 0399152725
The Lucas Davenport mystery series continues, this time with no shortage
of sex, blood, and action. |
/1 |
| 10. |
Haunted
Chuck Palahniuk, Doubleday, $24.95, 0385509480
A hellish writers' retreat. |
9/2 |
| 11. |
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $24.95, 0385504209
A bestselling phenomenon and Book Sense Book of the Year winner. No conspiracies
here! |
10/112 |
| 12. |
The Innocent
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $26.95, 0525948740
The past catches up with the hero in this tightly plotted and fast-moving
thriller from Coben. |
11/3 |
| 13. |
Ya-Yas in Bloom
Rebecca Wells, HarperCollins, $24.95, 0060195347
A follow-up to wildly popular Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
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5/7 |
| 14. |
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, Knopf, $24, 1400043395
Atmospheric and harrowing, this Book Sense Pick is a love story, and much
more, set in a parallel universe. |
12/6 |
| 15. |
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer, Houghton Mifflin, $24.95, 0618329706
Warm and brilliant imaginings from the viewpoint of a boy left fatherless
by 9/11. An April Book Sense Pick. |
13/9 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 18. |
Bangkok Tattoo
John Burdett, Knopf, $24, 1400040450
A new turn with the Royal Thai Police from the author of the bestseller
Bangkok 8. A Book Sense Notable title. |
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