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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for August 4, 2005
from sales the week ending July 31, 2005
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Trade Paperback Fiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $14, 1594480001
A Book Sense Pick, now in paperback. A stunning, enlightening novel of friendship
and Afghan culture and politics. |
1/65 |
| 2. |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon, Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717
This intriguing mystery and Book Sense Pick comes to paperback. A 2004 Book
Sense Book of the Year finalist. |
3/62 |
| 3. |
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd, Penguin, $14, 0142001740
A Top Ten Pick in hardcover and Book Sense Book of the Year winner in paperback.
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2/129 |
| 4. |
Snow
Orhan Pamuk, Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860
The exiled Turkish author takes a poetic look at the complicated politics
of his homeland in this stunning novel. |
8/2 |
| 5. |
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Penguin, $15, 0143034901
A Book Sense Pick in hardcover. A bookseller's son is obsessed with a writer
discovered in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. |
4/26 |
| 6. |
Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen, Warner, $12.95, 0446695564
Hiaasen hijinks off the coast of Florida ... a good beach read in more ways
than one. |
5/9 |
| 7. |
My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult, Washington Square, $14, 0743454537
Sensitive and thought provoking. A dying child ... what would you do, as
a parent? As a sibling? A Book Sense Pick in hardcover. |
7/25 |
| 8. |
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger, Harvest, $14, 015602943X
A winning and winsome Book Sense Pick and Book Sense Book of the Year finalist,
about love and time travel. Now in paperback. |
6/61 |
| 9. |
The Sunday Philosophy Club
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $12.95, 1400077095
The beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series introduces
a fiesty new heroine. Now in paperback. |
10/2 |
| 10. |
The Jane Austen Book Club
Karen Joy Fowler, Plume, $14, 0452286530
A hardcover bestseller and Book Sense Pick is now in paperback. |
9/13 |
| 11. |
Wicked
Gregory Maguire, ReganBooks, $15, 0060987103
This paperback of a Book Sense Pick in hardcover is the basis for the current
Broadway hit. Maguire turns Dorothy and company on their ears. |
/4 |
| 12. |
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides, Picador, $15, 0312422156
A Top Ten Pick and 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner, now out in paperback. |
15/97 |
| 13. |
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $11.95, 1400034779
A Book Sense Pick, indie discovery, and massive bestseller. |
14/128 |
| 14. |
The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $16, 0743227441
A novel of the luckier, lesser-known Boleyn sister. |
11/44 |
| 15. |
44 Scotland Street
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $13.95, 1400079446
The indie fave author returns with a gentle send-up of his fellow Scots.
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12/6 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 29. |
Something Rotten
Jasper Fforde, Penguin, $14, 014303541X
A Thursday Next novel in paperback. |
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