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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for June 29 and July 6, 2006
from sales the week ending June 25, 2006
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Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
Twelve Sharp - Debut
Janet Evanovich, St. Martin's, $26.95, 0312349483
Fans are eating up the new Stephanie Plum mystery! |
/1 |
| 2. |
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $23.95, 1565124995
Indies are buzzing about this rich, romantic story set in a long-ago traveling
circus. The #1 June Book Sense Pick. |
2/5 |
| 3. |
Terrorist
John Updike, Knopf, $24.95, 0307264653
Updike plumbs the mind of a young terrorist born and bred in New Jersey.
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1/3 |
| 4. |
Digging to America
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $24.95, 0307263940
A family drama of cross-cultural adjustment and acceptance. |
3/8 |
| 5. |
Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky, Knopf, $25, 1400044731
Long-lost vignettes set in German-occupied Paris, by an author exterminated
in Auschwitz. A Book Sense Pick. |
4/11 |
| 6. |
Blue Screen
Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $24.95, 0399153519
A new Sunny Randall installment. |
9/2 |
| 7. |
The Foreign Correspondent
Alan Furst, Random House, $24.95, 1400060192
Dateline: Paris, 1939. Genre: Noirish, smoky thriller. |
8/4 |
| 8. |
Beach Road
James Patterson, Peter de Jonge, Little Brown, $27.95, 0316159786
A new "Trial of the Century" features a local sports hero accused in a triple
murder in East Hampton. |
5/8 |
| 9. |
The Whole World Over
Julia Glass, Pantheon, $25.95, 0375422749
A lovely, engaging follow-up to the National Book Award-winning debut and
Book Sense Pick, Three Junes. |
11/5 |
| 10. |
Blue Shoes and Happiness
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $21.95, 0375422722
Precious Ramotswe is back for her seventh delightful adventure. |
6/10 |
| 11. |
Everyman
Philip Roth, Houghton Mifflin, $24, 061873516X
Roth movingly and beautifully considers mortality and illness. |
7/10 |
| 12. |
At Risk
Patricia D. Cornwell, Putnam, $21.95, 0399153624
The New York Times Magazine serialized police procedural novel in
one volume. |
10/5 |
| 13. |
Telegraph Days
Larry McMurtry, S&S, $25, 0743250788
In this June Book Sense Notable, a young telegraph operator becomes witness
to the iconic Old West. |
12/5 |
| 14. |
The Whistling Season
Ivan Doig, Harcourt, $25, 0151012377
"Flawlessly crafted," says bookseller Stephen Grutzmacher of Passtimes Books,
Sister Bay, WI, of this Book Sense Pick. |
14/4 |
| 15. |
The Husband
Dean R. Koontz, Bantam, $27, 0553804790
Ordinary man rescues wife from kidnappers in an extraordinarily thrilling
way. |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 39. |
Back to Wando Passo
David Payne, Morrow, $24.95, 0060851899
Two marriages, and centuries, are intertwined in this ambitious and haunting
tale. A Book Sense Pick. |
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