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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for January 26, 2006
from sales the week ending January 22, 2006
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Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
Arthur & George
Julian Barnes, Knopf, $24.95, 030726310X
Based on a Conan Doyle investigation of a crime in Victorian England. A
Book Sense Pick. |
5/2 |
| 2. |
The Lighthouse
P.D. James, Knopf, $25.95, 030726291X
An Adam Dalgliesh mystery, but so much more, from the reigning master of
the genre. |
1/9 |
| 3. |
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $24.95, 0385504209
A bestselling phenomenon and 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year winner. No
conspiracies here! |
2/136 |
| 4. |
S Is for Silence
Sue Grafton, Putnam, $26.95, 0399152970
"S" is really for successful! |
3/7 |
| 5. |
Christ the Lord
Anne Rice, Knopf, $25.95, 0375412018
Rice's departure from the macabre to the holy. |
9/12 |
| 6. |
The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell
Lilian Jackson Braun, Putnam, $23.95, 0399153071
The latest mystery/murder adventure with Quill & the cats and #28 in
the series. |
4/2 |
| 7. |
On Beauty
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637
Howards End comes to the U.S. in talented Ms. Smith's third novel. |
6/18 |
| 8. |
The Constant Princess
Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $24.95, 074327248X
This time Catherine of Aragon gets the juicy historical fiction treatment.
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11/5 |
| 9. |
The March
E.L. Doctorow, Random House, $25.95, 0375506713
Sherman marches through the South in a Book Sense Pick filled with unforgettable
characters. |
7/18 |
| 10. |
The Hostage
W.E.B. Griffin, Putnam, $26.95, 0399153144
A skilled former soldier and Homeland Security agent investigates a diplomat's
murder. |
12/3 |
| 11. |
The Brooklyn Follies
Paul Auster, Holt, $24, 0805077146
"Funny, sad, and impossible to put down", says bookseller Steve Eddy of
the Book King in Rutland, VT, about this Book Sense Pick. |
13/2 |
| 12. |
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Knopf, $20, 140004460X
Love, aging, whores, and the Nobel Laureate equal perfection in this novella.
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8/13 |
| 13. |
Turning Angel
Greg Iles, Scribner, $25.95, 0743234715
A tight, psychological/legal thriller set in lush Mississippi. |
10/3 |
| 14. |
The Sea
John Banville, Knopf, $23, 0307263118
A Man Booker Prize-winning novel about the present, the past and the sea.
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/8 |
| 15. |
Death Dance - Debut
Linda A. Fairstein, Scribner, $26, 0743254899
The author's alter ego in a new, convincingly real, criminal procedural
thriller. |
/1 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 19. |
The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons, Harcourt, $23, 0151012040
The sequel to lauded Ellen Foster finds Ellen on the road to higher
education. A January Book Sense Pick. |
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