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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for April 5, 2007
from sales the week ending April 1, 2007
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Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult, Atria, $26.95, 9780743496728
A high school shooting rampage is the latest contemporary issue for Picoult. |
1/4 |
| 2. |
Whitethorn Woods
Maeve Binchy, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307265784
Step into the deep, Irish woods with reader favorite Binchy. |
2/4 |
| 3. |
What Is the What
Dave Eggers, McSweeney's, $26, 9781932416640
Fictionalized memoir of a survivor of the tragedy in the Sudan. |
3/19 |
| 4. |
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $23.95, 9781565124998
Indies are still buzzing about this rich, romantic story set in a long-ago
traveling circus. A #1 Book Sense Pick. |
4/44 |
| 5. |
Boomsday - Debut
Christopher Buckley, Twelve, $24.99, 9780446579810
A political satire that also takes aim at Baby Boomers. |
/1 |
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Obsession - Debut
Jonathan Kellerman, Ballantine, $26.95, 9780345452634
The 21st Alex Delaware psychological thriller. |
/1 |
| 7. |
The Road
Cormac McCarthy, Knopf, $24, 9780307265432
A barren, post-apocalyptic landscape is the foreground, and background,
for this Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book. |
/21 |
| 8. |
Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill, Morrow, $24.95, 9780061147937
A modern, creepy ghost story and #1 Book Sense Pick. |
5/4 |
| 9. |
The Double Bind
Chris Bohjalian, Shaye Areheart, $25, 9781400047468
This Book Sense Pick is a layered beauty about a woman's obsession with
uncovering a dark secret. |
6/7 |
| 10. |
Burning Bright
Tracy Chevalier, Dutton, $24.95, 9780525949787
Will Chevalier (Girl With Pearl Earring) strike gold again with this
18th-century London/William Blake historical fiction? A Book Sense Pick. |
12/2 |
| 11. |
Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky, Knopf, $25, 9781400044733
Long-lost vignettes set in German-occupied Paris, by an author exterminated
in Auschwitz. A Book Sense Pick. |
10/41 |
| 12. |
Christine Falls
Benjamin Black, Holt, $25, 9780805081527
First in a series of crime novels set in Ireland, from the pen of John Banville's
alter ego. |
/2 |
| 13. |
For One More Day
Mitch Albom, Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401303273
A mother's death, a time of regret. |
/25 |
| 14. |
The Watchman
Robert Crais, S&S, $25.95, 9780743281638
Joe Pike is hired to protect a wealthy Los Angeles woman. |
7/5 |
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Step on a Crack
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316013949
Difficult family circumstances mix with terror in this latest Patterson
"team" thriller. |
8/8 |
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The Book of Air and Shadows
Michael Gruber, Morrow, $24.95, 9780060874469
Letters from the 17th century found in a rare book trigger a race to find an undiscovered
Shakespeare play. A Book Sense Pick. |
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