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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for October 26, 2006
from sales the week ending October 22, 2006
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Trade Paperback Fiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards, Penguin, $14, 0143037145
A tragic snap-decision about a handicapped baby, played out among the affected.
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1/20 |
| 2. |
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. |
2/34 |
| 3. |
Saving Fish From Drowning
Amy Tan, Ballantine, $14.95, 034546401X
Cultural misunderstandings abound in this Book Sense Notable (hardcover
edition) title. |
3/4 |
| 4. |
The Lighthouse
P.D. James, Vintage, $13.95, 0307275736
An Adam Dalgliesh mystery, but so much more, from the reigning master of
the genre. |
6/2 |
| 5. |
March
Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $14, 0143036661
2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction and #1 Book Sense Pick. The Civil
War experiences of Little Women's absent Mr. March. |
8/26 |
| 6. |
On Beauty
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $15, 0143037749
Howards End comes to the U.S. in talented Ms. Smith's third novel. A Book
Sense Pick. |
5/8 |
| 7. |
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova, Back Bay, $15.99, 0316154547
A darkly wonderful Dracula-chasing thriller and Book Sense Book of the Year
award-winner in hardcover. |
12/3 |
| 8. |
The History of Love
Nicole Krauss, Norton, $13.95, 0393328627
A #1 Book Sense Pick in hardcover that travels deep into the mysteries
of love and survival. |
10/26 |
| 9. |
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. |
9/128 |
| 10. |
The Sea
John Banville, Vintage, $12.95, 1400097029
A Man Booker Prize-winning novel about the present, the past, and the sea.
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11/10 |
| 11. |
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. |
7/35 |
| 12. |
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai, Grove, $14, 0802142818
A rich Book Sense Notable (hardcover edition) and newest winner of the Man
Booker Prize. Set in India on the eve of the Nepalese movement for an independent
state. |
4/2 |
| 13. |
The Alchemist (Updated)
Paulo Coelho, HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95, 0061122416
A boy's journey and metamorphosis, with new bonus material. |
/10 |
| 14. |
The Night Watch - Debut
Sarah Waters, Riverhead, $15, 1594482306
London during World War II is the setting for this gripping historical fiction. |
/1 |
| 15. |
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. |
13/88 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 25. |
The Best American Short Stories
Ann Patchett (Ed.), Houghton Mifflin, $14, 061854352X
The annual volume features both short story veterans and newcomers to the
field. |
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