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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for February 2, 2006
from sales the week ending January 29, 2006
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Trade Paperback Fiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson, Picador, $14, 031242440X
The #1 December 2004 Book Sense Pick in Hardcover, now available in paperback.
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1/3 |
| 2. |
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. |
2/91 |
| 3. |
Brokeback Mountain
Annie Proulx, Scribner, $9.95, 0743271327
The award-winning short story, basis for the Golden Globe winner, now in
its own edition. |
3/7 |
| 4. |
Prep
Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House, $13.95, 081297235X
An updated coming-of-age in prep school story, from the feminine perspective.
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6/10 |
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Close Range
Annie Proulx, Scribner, $14, 0684852225
Stories on defining one's self, including "Brokeback Mountain," the basis
for the movie sensation. |
11/2 |
| 6. |
Wicked
Gregory Maguire, Regan Books, $15, 0060987103
The paperback version of a hardcover Book Sense Pick. Maguire turns Dorothy
and company on their ears. |
5/30 |
| 7. |
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden, Vintage, $14.95, 0307275167
A haunting story of a geisha's life. |
4/10 |
| 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. |
9/51 |
| 9. |
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. |
7/52 |
| 10. |
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. |
10/15 |
| 11. |
The Known World
Edward P. Jones, Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize is now in paperback. The antebellum South,
complete with black slave owners. |
14/70 |
| 12. |
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 and Book Sense Pick. |
13/28 |
| 13. |
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $14.95, 1400079276
Wildly adored by critics, booksellers, and readers alike, now a Book Sense
Pick in paperback. |
8/4 |
| 14. |
Runaway
Alice Munro, Vintage, $14.95, 1400077915
Wonderful stories of love, from the incomparable Ms. Munro. |
12/12 |
| 15. |
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. |
/87 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 36. |
Captain Alatriste
Arturo Perez-Reverte, Plume, $14, 0452287111
Rich characters and a sense of swashbuckling 17th-century Spain make this
a winning read. |
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