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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for October 20, 2005
from sales the week ending October 16, 2005
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Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
Knife of Dreams - Debut
Robert Jordan, Tor, $29.95, 0312873077
Book 11 in the epic The Wheel of Time fantasy series. |
/1 |
| 2. |
The March
E.L. Doctorow, Random House, $25.95, 0375506713
Sherman marches through the South in a Book Sense Pick filled with unforgettable
characters. |
1/4 |
| 3. |
The Lincoln Lawyer
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $26.95, 0316734934
Goodie! Connelly turns to legal thrillers. |
4/2 |
| 4. |
Son of a Witch
Gregory Maguire, ReganBooks, $26.95, 0060548932
The wicked witch is dead! The well-imagined sequel to the immensely popular
Wicked. |
2/3 |
| 5. |
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Diana Gabaldon, Delacorte, $28, 0385324162
The sixth installment of the popular historical fiction/time travelling Outlander series. |
3/3 |
| 6. |
On Beauty
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637
Howards End comes to the U.S. in the talented Ms. Smith's third novel. |
5/5 |
| 7. |
A Wedding in December - Debut
Anita Shreve, Little Brown, $25.95, 0316738999
A November Book Sense Pick that is "impossible to put down," says bookseller
Dawn Donovan of Armchair Bookstore, Dennis, MA. |
/1 |
| 8. |
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $21.95, 0375422994
The lively second installment of The Sunday Philosophy Club series.
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6/4 |
| 9. |
Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman, William Morrow, $26.95, 006051518X
A wondrous blend of mythology and contemporary life. An October Book Sense
Pick. |
9/4 |
| 10. |
The Widow of the South
Robert Hicks, Warner, $24.95, 0446500127
A new entry for fans of Civil War historical fiction. The #1 Book Sense
Pick for September. |
8/7 |
| 11. |
Goodnight Nobody
Jennifer Weiner, Atria, $26, 0743470117
First babies (Little Earthquakes), now a move to the suburbs. |
12/4 |
| 12. |
School Days
Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $24.95, 0399153233
Parker reinvigorates the Spenser series in this 33rd installment. |
7/3 |
| 13. |
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova, Little Brown, $25.95, 0316011770
A darkly wonderful #1 Book Sense Pick. |
10/17 |
| 14. |
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. |
11/27 |
| 15. |
The Painted Drum
Louise Erdrich, HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060515104
Erdrich's newest novel returns to the much-loved Ojibwe reservation. A Book
Sense Pick. |
13/6 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 21. |
Slow Man
J.M. Coetzee, Viking, $24.95, 0670034592
A November Notable from the South African Nobel laureate. |
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