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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for November 23, 2005
from sales the week ending November 20, 2005
For the Book Sense store nearest you, call 1-888-BOOKSENSE
or visit www.booksense.com
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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. |
1/81 |
| 2. |
Wicked
Gregory Maguire, Regan Books, $15, 0060987103
The paperback version of a hardcover Book Sense Pick. Maguire turns Dorothy
and company on their ears. |
2/20 |
| 3. |
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. |
4/78 |
| 4. |
Runaway
Alice Munro, Vintage, $14.95, 1400077915
Wonderful stories of love, from the incomparable Ms. Munro. |
10/2 |
| 5. |
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth, Vintage, $14.95, 1400079497
An alternate history in which Lindbergh becomes President during the author's
childhood years. A Book Sense Pick in hardcover. |
6/8 |
| 6. |
Light on Snow
Anita Shreve, Back Bay, $14.95, 0316010677
An absorbing read about love, loss, and memory. A hardcover Book Sense Pick
for November '04. |
7/11 |
| 7. |
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. |
3/42 |
| 8. |
Case Histories
Kate Atkinson, Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707
A Book Sense Pick in hardcover about the cost of unsolved crimes on the
lives of the survivors. |
5/5 |
| 9. |
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. |
9/18 |
| 10. |
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. |
8/41 |
| 11. |
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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12/145 |
| 12. |
Broken for You
Stephanie Kallos, Grove, $13, 0802142109
Paperback edition of a Book Sense Pick, filled with memorable characters
and deep emotion. |
15/9 |
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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. |
11/77 |
| 14. |
The Chronicles of Narnia (adult movie tie-in) -
Debut
C. S. Lewis, HarperCollins, $19.99, 0060765453
It's the perfect time to re-read this wonderful classic. |
/1 |
| 15. |
The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $16, 0743227441
A novel of the luckier, lesser-known Boleyn sister. |
13/59 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 24. |
Brokeback Mountain
Annie Proulx, Scribner, $9.95, 0743271327
The award-winnning short story, basis for the movie opening soon, now in
its own edition. |
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