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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for April 20, 2006
from sales the week ending April 16, 2006
For the Book Sense store nearest you, call 1-888-BOOKSENSE
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Trade Paperback Fiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
The Mermaid Chair
Sue Monk Kidd, Penguin, $14, 0143036696
A May 2005 Book Sense Pick in hardcover. |
1/6 |
| 2. |
Saturday - Debut
Ian McEwan, Anchor, $14.95, 1400076196
A Book Sense Pick from the author of Atonement. |
/1 |
| 3. |
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, Vintage, $14, 1400078776
Atmospheric and harrowing, this Book Sense Pick is a love story, and much
more, set in a parallel universe. |
2/5 |
| 4. |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See, Random House, $13.95, 0812968069
A #1 Book Sense Pick in hardcover, set in 19th-century rural China. |
3/8 |
| 5. |
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. |
6/102 |
| 6. |
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson, Picador, $14, 031242440X
The #1 December 2004 Book Sense Pick in Hardcover, now available in paperback.
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4/14 |
| 7. |
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown, Anchor, $14.95, 0307277674
The juggernaut is now in paperback! |
5/3 |
| 8. |
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $12.95, 140007570X
A reprint of the first of many bestselling Ladies Detective mysteries. |
7/5 |
| 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. |
8/63 |
| 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. |
9/62 |
| 11. |
Wicked
Gregory Maguire, Regan Books, $16, 0060987103
The paperback version of a hardcover Book Sense Pick. Maguire turns Dorothy
and company on their ears. |
12/41 |
| 12. |
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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14/21 |
| 13. |
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer, Mariner, $13.95, 0618711651
Warm and brilliant imaginings from the viewpoint of a boy left fatherless
by 9/11. A Book Sense Pick in hardcover. |
11/2 |
| 14. |
The Year of Pleasures
Elizabeth Berg, Ballantine, $13.95, 0812970993
Now in paperback, a middle-aged widow changes her life and locale. |
13/2 |
| 15. |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Debut
Mitch Albom, Hyperion, $12, 1401308589
The "life-after-death" bestseller, by the author of Tuesdays With Morrie,
now in paperback. |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 21. |
Any Place I Hang My Hat
Susan Isaacs, Scribner, $14, 0743272307
Sometimes girls just wanna read fun... |
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