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Best Sellers

 Last Updated May 5, 2008

Fiction  or  Non-Fiction

 

FICTION BEST SELLERS

1.

THE WHOLE TRUTH, by David Baldacci.

An intelligence agent and a journalist team up against a warmongering defense contractor.

2.

HOLD TIGHT, by Harlan Coben.

The aftermath of a high school kid's suicide rocks a New Jersey suburb.

3.

THE MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS, by Alexander McCall Smith.

The ninth novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

4.

UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, by Jhumpa Lahiri.

Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children.

5.

WHERE ARE YOU NOW?, by Mary Higgins Clark.

A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared.

6.

CERTAIN GIRLS, by Jennifer Weiner.

A girl discovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier.

7.

QUICKSAND, by Iris Johansen.

The forensic sculptor Eve Duncan tracks a killer who claims to have murdered her daughter years earlier.

8.

DEAD HEAT, by Joel C. Rosenberg.

With the world on the brink of war, terrorists plot to assassinate a candidate in a closely fought presidential election.

9.

THE APPEAL, by John Grisham.

Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste.

10.

SANTA FE DEAD, by Stuart Woods.

A Santa Fe lawyer investigates his nefarious former wife.

11.

THE THIRD CIRCLE, by Amanda Quick.

In Victorian England, a crystal reader joins forces with a hypnotist to steal a mysterious stone (an Arcane Society novel).

12.

COMPULSION, by Jonathan Kellerman.

Several Los Angeles women are murdered, and the psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates.

13.

BELONG TO ME, by Marisa de los Santos.

When she moves to the suburbs, a woman becomes enmeshed in complications and secrets.

14.

BULLS ISLAND, by Dorothea Benton Frank.

An investment banker returns to the South Carolina island home she had left 20 years before.

15.

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini.

A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of

30 years of war.

 

NONFICTION BEST SELLERS

1.

ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler.

Humorous personal essays from the stand-up comedian.

2.

ESCAPE, by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer.

A former member of a fundamentalist polygamous sect describes her forced marriage to a much older man.

3.

HOME, by Julie Andrews.

A memoir of Andrews's early years.

4.

BEAUTIFUL BOY, by David Sheff.

A father struggles with his son's meth addiction.

5.

MISTAKEN IDENTITY, by Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb.

The families of two girls whose identities were confused after a 2006 accident describe their experience.

6.

LADIES OF LIBERTY, by Cokie Roberts.

The influential women of early America.

7.

THE REVOLUTION, by Ron Paul.

A libertarian manifesto from the Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate.

8.

BAD MONEY, by Kevin Phillips.

How the financial sector has hijacked the American economy, aided by Washington's ruinous faith in the efficiency of markets.

9.

ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT, by Kurt Vonnegut.

Twelve unpublished writings on war and peace by the novelist, who died in 2007.

10.

THE SOLOIST, by Steve Lopez.

A columnist for The Los Angeles Times comes upon a homeless musician on Skid Row and sets out to change his life.

11.

GIRLS LIKE US, by Sheila Weller.

The lives and times of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon.

12.

THE TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOWN, by Charles R. Morris.

A clear explanation of how we got into the economic mess we are in and what is likely to happen next, from a lawyer and former banker.

13.

IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, by Michael Pollan.

A manifesto urges us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

14.

BONK, by Mary Roach.

An amusing look at the science of sexual physiology.

15.

BRETT FAVRE: THE TRIBUTE, by Sports Illustrated.

Articles about and pictures of the Green Bay Packers quarterback.


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