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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for July 27, 2006
from sales the week ending July 23, 2006
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Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
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. |
1/8 |
| 2. |
Pegasus Descending - Debut
James Lee Burke, S&S, $26, 0743277724
Summertime, a hard-boiled and flawed hero, and the steamy bayou, all add
up to James Lee Burke at his finest. A Book Sense Pick. |
/1 |
| 3. |
Phantom - Debut
Terry Goodkind, Tor, $29.95, 0765305240
Number 10 in the Sword of Truth fantasy series. (Far too deep into
the story to try and summarize plot or characters!) |
/1 |
| 4. |
Twelve Sharp
Janet Evanovich, St. Martin's, $26.95, 0312349483
Fans are eating up the new Stephanie Plum mystery! |
2/4 |
| 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. |
3/14 |
| 6. |
The Ruins - Debut
Scott Smith, Knopf, $24.95, 1400043875
An eerily good, long-awaited follow-up to creepy favorite A Simple Plan.
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/1 |
| 7. |
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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4/6 |
| 8. |
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
Fannie Flagg, Random House, $25.95, 1400061261
More of the down-home charm and humor Flagg introduced in Fried Green
Tomatoes. |
5/3 |
| 9. |
Digging to America
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $24.95, 0307263940
A family drama of cross-cultural adjustment and acceptance. |
8/11 |
| 10. |
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. |
9/8 |
| 11. |
Angels Fall
Nora Roberts, Putnam, $25.95, 0399153721
Damsel in distress rescued in Wyoming, amid menace and suspense. |
6/2 |
| 12. |
Break No Bones
Kathy Reichs, Scribner, $25.95, 0743233492
The working forensic anthropologist's newest adventure for alter-ego Tempe
Brennan (TV's Bones). |
7/2 |
| 13. |
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. |
14/7 |
| 14. |
The Foreign Correspondent
Alan Furst, Random House, $24.95, 1400060192
Dateline: Paris, 1939. Genre: Noirish, smoky thriller. |
15/7 |
| 15. |
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. |
10/11 |
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| 30. |
Between, Georgia
Joshilyn Jackson, Warner, $22.99, 0446524425
The #1 Book Sense Pick for July! Tons of Southern characters, a bit of Shakespearean
family feuding, and whiskey-smooth charm. |
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