Archive for Sunday, April 20, 2008
BESTSELLERS
| Fiction | weeks on list | |
| 1. | Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf: $25) Stories of American-born children and their Bengali parents straddling cultures. | 2 |
| 2. | Hollywood Crows by Joseph Wambaugh (Little, Brown: $26.99) Two cops become ensnared in a femme fatale’s nasty divorce. | 2 |
| 3. | Lush Life by Richard Price (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $26) The layered lives of victims and perpetrators are explored in the aftermath of a Manhattan shooting. | 5 |
| 4. | The Appeal by John Grisham (Doubleday: $27.95) A billionaire tries to reverse a $41-million jury verdict over toxic-waste dumping. | 10 |
| 5. | Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine: $27) A blood stain in a stolen luxury car sets Alex Delaware on the trail of a serial killer. | 2 |
| 6. | Small Favor by Jim Butcher (Roc: $23.95) The wizard Harry Dresden searches for a Chicago mobster. | 1 |
| 7. | Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff (Knopf: $26.95) New short stories reflecting contemporary American life by the master of the form. | 2 |
| 8. | Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut (Putnam: $24.95) A collection of the late author’s unpublished short fiction. | 1 |
| 9. | Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella (Dial Press: $25) An ambitious woman finds her fortunes improved after a three-year bout of amnesia. | 5 |
| 10. | Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult (Atria: $26.95) A killer offers to donate his heart to his victim’s sister. | 5 |
| Nonfiction | ||
| 1. | Beautiful Boy by David Sheff (Houghton Mifflin: $24) A father’s struggle with his son’s meth addiction. | 6 |
| 2. | The Bin Ladens by Steve Coll (Penguin: $35) How the family of Osama bin Laden came to prominence and power in the Middle East. | 1 |
| 3. | Home by Julie Andrews (Hyperion: $26.95) The star of stage and screen tells of her early years, from 1935 to 1963, when she was cast in “Mary Poppins.” | 1 |
| 4. | The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) Life’s secrets distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy. | 67 |
| 5. | In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press: $21.95) A look at dietary sacred cows. | 14 |
| 6. | Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster: $30) A revisionist look at the run-up to World War II. | 3 |
| 7. | Mistaken Identity by Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak (Howard Books: $21.99) A young woman believed dead is in a coma. | 2 |
| 8. | Stop Whining, Start Living by Laura Schlessinger (HarperCollins: $24.95) Tips on getting out of a rut. | 4 |
| 9. | Vindicated by Jose Canseco (Simon Spotlight: $25.95) The former outfielder reveals more about steroid use in Major League Baseball. | 1 |
| 10. | sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling (Simon Spotlight: $24.95) The “90210” star tells all. | 4 |
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