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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for September 8, 2005
from sales the week ending September 4, 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. |
1/70 |
| 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. |
2/67 |
| 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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3/134 |
| 4. |
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. |
4/31 |
| 5. |
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. |
5/7 |
| 6. |
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Debut
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury, $15.95, 1582346038
The 2005 Book Sense Book of the Year is now in paperback! |
/1 |
| 7. |
Wicked
Gregory Maguire, ReganBooks, $15, 0060987103
The paperback version of a hardcover Book Sense Pick. Maguire turns Dorothy
and company on their ears. |
9/9 |
| 8. |
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. |
7/30 |
| 9. |
Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen, Warner, $12.95, 0446695564
Hiaasen hijinks off the coast of Florida ... a good beach read in more ways
than one. |
8/14 |
| 10. |
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. |
6/66 |
| 11. |
The Virgin's Lover
Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $16, 0743269268
A Book Sense Pick in hardcover, this book is a fictionalized historical
drama starring Elizabeth I. |
11/2 |
| 12. |
The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $16, 0743227441
A novel of the luckier, lesser-known Boleyn sister. |
10/49 |
| 13. |
Broken for You
Stephanie Kallos, Grove, $13, 0802142109
Paperback edition of a Book Sense Pick, filled with memorable characters
and deep emotion. |
12/3 |
| 14. |
I Am Charlotte Simmons - Debut
Tom Wolfe, Picador, $15, 0312424442
Tom Wolfe goes to college. Fun, sharp, and fast. |
/1 |
| 15. |
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. |
13/7 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 35. |
The Inner Circle
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Penguin, $15, 014303586X
This being the group surrounding Alfred Kinsey. |
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