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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for May 4, 2006
from sales the week ending April 30, 2006
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Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
Blue Shoes and Happiness
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $21.95, 0375422722
Precious Ramotswe is back for her seventh delightful adventure. |
1/2 |
| 2. |
Promise Me - Debut
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $26.95, 0525949496
The eighth thriller featuring Myron Bolitar, a former Boston Celtics basketball
star, in which Bolitar becomes a suspect in a teenager's disappearance.
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/1 |
| 3. |
Everyman
Philip Roth, Houghton Mifflin, $24, 061873516X
Roth movingly and beautifully considers mortality and illness. |
14/2 |
| 4. |
Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky, Knopf, $25, 1400044731
Long-lost masterful stories written on the eve of the German occupation
of Paris, and the author's extermination in the Holocaust. |
3/3 |
| 5. |
Mother
Maya Angelou, Random House, $9.95, 1400066018
Acclaimed poet and writer Angelou pays tribute to a key figure for us all.
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7/2 |
| 6. |
Elements of Style
Wendy Wasserstein, Knopf, $23.95, 1400042313
Wasserstein's first and last novel mixes her trademark heroines with the
shadow of tragedy. |
8/2 |
| 7. |
Two Little Girls in Blue
Mary Higgins Clark, S&S, $25.95, 0743264908
A chilling story of kidnapping and murder, centered around young, telepathic
twin girls. |
4/4 |
| 8. |
A Dirty Job
Christopher Moore, Morrow, $24.95, 0060590270
Death gets the Moore treatment in this Book Sense Pick getting great reviews.
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2/6 |
| 9. |
The Tenth Circle
Jodi Picoult, Atria, $26, 0743496701
A Maine family's story of anguish, betrayal, and their aftermath. A Book
Sense Pick for March 2006. |
6/8 |
| 10. |
The Templar Legacy
Steve Berry, Ballantine, $24.95, 0345476158
Can't get enough Christianity/conspiracy tales? Here's a juicy one to hold
you over. |
15/10 |
| 11. |
How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life
- Debut
Kaavya Viswanathan, Little Brown, $21.95, 0316059889
The newest controversial title became a bestseller before being pulled from
the shelves. |
/1 |
| 12. |
Dark Tort
Diane Mott Davidson, Morrow, $24.95, 0060527315
Yummy, culinary mystery! |
9/3 |
| 13. |
In the Company of the Courtesan
Sarah Dunant, Random House, $23.95, 1400063817
Enchanting historical fiction, bringing Renaissance Italy alive. |
12/11 |
| 14. |
Gone
Jonathan Kellerman, Ballantine, $26.95, 0345452615
Kellerman creation Alex Delaware solves another not very pretty Hollywood
murder mystery. |
5/5 |
| 15. |
Labyrinth
Kate Mosse, Putnam, $25.95, 0399153446
Present-day collides with 13th-century Carcassonne in a quest for the Holy
Grail. A March 2006 Book Sense Pick. |
10/8 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 19. |
The Debutante Divorcee
Plum Sykes, Miramax Books, $23.95, 1401352448
The funny follow-up to Sykes' bestselling 2004 debut, Bergdorf Blondes.
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