July 20, 2008
New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-seller List
| This Week |
Last Week |
Weeks On List |
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| 1 | THE
LAST PATRIOT, by Brad Thor (Atria, $26.) Scot Harvath, a Homeland Security superagent, searches for an ancient secret that could defeat Islamic militants. |
1 | |
| 2 | FEARLESS
FOURTEEN, by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s, $27.95.) Stephanie Plum and her boyfriend Joe Morelli become involved when his cousin’s bank robbery goes bad. |
1 | 3 |
| 3 | SAIL,
by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A sailing vacation turns into a disaster when someone attempts to destroy a family. |
2 | 4 |
| 4 | TAILSPIN,
by Catherine Coulter (Putnam, $25.95.) Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock — F.B.I. agents as well as husband and wife — come to the aid of a colleague. |
3 | 2 |
| 5 | THE
STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski (Ecco, $25.95.) A mute takes refuge with three dogs in the Wisconsin woods after his uncle murders his father. |
6 | 4 |
| 6 | THE
HOST,
by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown, $25.99.) Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won’t surrender. |
5 | 9 |
| 7 | CHASING
DARKNESS, by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) Is the Los Angeles private eye Elvis Cole responsible for the release of a serial killer? |
1 | |
| 8 | ROGUE,
by Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $27.) A divorced doctor about to remarry faces a quandary when her ex-husband asks her to work with him on a humanitarian project. |
4 | 2 |
| 9 | DEATH ANGEL,
by Linda Howard (Ballantine, $26.) A crime lord’s former mistress cooperates with the F.B.I. |
1 | |
| 10 | THE
BEACH HOUSE,
by Jane Green (Viking, $24.95.) A woman’s life changes when she rents out rooms in her Nantucket house. |
9 | 3 |
| 11 | * LOVE
THE ONE YOU’RE WITH, by Emily Giffin (St. Martin’s, $24.95.) A woman’s happy marriage is shaken when she encounters an old boyfriend. |
10 | 8 |
| 12 | THE
LAST ORACLE,
by James Rollins (Morrow, $26.95.) Sigma Force operatives battle a group of rogue scientists. |
7 | 2 |
| 13 | CHASING
HARRY WINSTON, by Lauren Weisberger (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) Three glamorous friends, New York women nearing 30, vow to change their lives. |
8 | 6 |
| 14 | THE
BROKEN WINDOW, by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster, $26.95.) Detectives Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs confront a criminal who frames innocent people. |
12 | 4 |
| 15 | NOTHING
TO LOSE,
by Lee Child (Delacorte, $27.) Jack Reacher exposes the secrets of a Colorado town. |
11 | 5 |
| 16 | * AMERICA
AMERICA, by Ethan Canin (Random House, $27.) A boy becomes entangled with a powerful family in upstate New York in the early 1970s. |
15 | 2 |
Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending July 5, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
List and descriptions from the New York Times web site at
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/index.html