May 4, 2008
New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-seller List
| This Week |
Last Week |
Weeks On List |
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| 1 | HOLD
TIGHT, by Harlan Coben (Dutton, $26.95.) The aftermath of a high school kid’s suicide rocks a New Jersey suburb. |
1 | |
| 2 | WHERE
ARE YOU NOW?, by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared. |
1 | 2 |
| 3 | THE
MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS, by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $22.95.) The ninth novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. |
1 | |
| 4 | UNACCUSTOMED
EARTH, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf, $25.) Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children. |
2 | 3 |
| 5 | CERTAIN
GIRLS, by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, $26.95.) A girl discovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier. |
3 | 2 |
| 6 | THE
APPEAL, by John Grisham (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste. |
6 | 12 |
| 7 | COMPULSION,
by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine, $27.) Several Los Angeles women are murdered, and the psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates. |
7 | 4 |
| 8 | BELONG
TO ME, by Marisa de los Santos (Morrow, $24.95.) When she moves to the suburbs, a woman becomes enmeshed in complications and secrets. |
4 | 3 |
| 9 | SMALL
FAVOR, by Jim Butcher (Roc, $23.95.) Book 10 of the Dresden Files series about a wizard detective in Chicago. |
5 | 3 |
| 10 | CHANGE
OF HEART, by Jodi Picoult (Atria, $26.95.) A prisoner on death row begins performing miracles. |
8 | 7 |
| 11 | * BULLS
ISLAND, by Dorothea Benton Frank (Morrow, $24.95.) An investment banker returns to the South Carolina island home she had left 20 years before. |
9 | 2 |
| 12 | A
THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95.) A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war. |
10 | 48 |
| 13 | REMEMBER
ME?, by Sophie Kinsella (Dial, $25.) After an auto accident, a London woman loses her memory. |
11 | 8 |
| 14 | THE
BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, by Junot Díaz (Riverhead, $24.95.) A Dominican-American in New Jersey struggles to escape a family curse. |
15 | 4 |
| 15 | THE
THIRD ANGEL, by Alice Hoffman (Shaye Areheart, $25.) Interwoven stories of three women who face crossroads in their lives. |
1 | |
| 16 | * WINTER
STUDY, by Nevada Barr (Putnam, $24.95.) The national park ranger Anna Pigeon returns to an island park in Lake Superior, where a monstrous wolf is at large. |
16 | 3 |
Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending April 19, 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