The Book Sense/NEBA List

The following were the bestselling titles at New England Booksellers Association stores during the week ended Sunday, October 2, as reported to Book Sense.

Hardcover Fiction

1. The March by E. L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
2. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
3. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte, $28, 0385324162)
4. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $26.95, 0060548932)
5. School Days by Robert B. Parker (Putnam, $24.95, 0399153233)
6. Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee (Viking, $24.95, 0670034592)
7. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $21.95, 0375422994)
8. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (Morrow, $26.95, 006051518X)
9. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95, 0670033944)
10. The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant (Scribner, $25, 0743225732)
11. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, $26, 0743470117)
12. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060515104)
13. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316011770)
14. The Divide by Nicholas Evans (Putnam, $26.95, 0399152067)
15. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks (Warner, $24.95, 0446500127)

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200580)
2. 1776 by David McCullough (S&S, $32, 0743226712)
3. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
4. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
5. The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer (Hyperion, $23.95, 1401300642)
6. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
7. What Remains by Carole Radziwill (Scribner, $25.95, 0743276949)
8. Symptoms of Withdrawal by Christopher Kennedy Lawford (Morrow, $25.95, 0060732482)
9. On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton, $9.95, 0691122946)
10. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance, $29.95, 0975599518)
11. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda (Random House, $24.95, 1400064090)
12. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell (Little, Brown, $23.95, 031610969X)
13. Recipes from a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw and Martha Greenlaw (Hyperion, $25.95, 1401300731)
14. My Detachment by Tracy Kidder (Random House, $24.95, 0375506152)
15. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Seven Stories, $23.95, 158322713X)

Trade Paperback Fiction

1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. Light on Snow by Anita Shreve (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316010677)
3. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454537)
4. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Vintage, $14.95, 1400079497)
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
6. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
7. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $15, 0060987103)
8. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
9. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, $15.95, 1582346038)
10. The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor, $12.95, 1400077095)
11. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
12. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
13. I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Picador, $15, 0312424442)
14. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $16, 0743227441)
15. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (Perennial, $13.95, 0060529709)

Trade Paperback Nonfiction

1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
2. Sudoku Easy to Hard edited by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355033)
3. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (Random House, $14.95, 0812973011)
4. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
5. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner, et al. (Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400082315)
6. Chronicles by Bob Dylan (S&S, $14, 0743244583)
7. Will in the World by Stephen J. Greenblatt (Norton, $14.95, 039332737X)
8. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2006 (Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 1571983678)
9. Sudoku Easy, Volume 1 by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355025)
10. Bad Dog by R. D. Rosen, et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
11. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
12. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95, 0393317552)
13. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
14. Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett (Perennial, $13.95, 0060572159)
15. Rand McNally Road Atlas 2006: U.S., Canada, Mexico (Rand McNally, $11.95, 0528957902)

Mass Market

1. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
2. The Constant Gardener by John le Carre (Pocket, $7.99, 1416503900)
3. The Surrogate Thief by Archer Mayor (Warner, $6.99, 0446616605)
4. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Dell, $7.99, 0440241359)
5. London Bridges by James Patterson (Warner, $7.99, 0446613355)
6. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
7. Twisted by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine, $7.99, 0345465261)
8. Northern Lights by Nora Roberts (Jove, $9.99, 0515139742)
9. Winter House by Carol O'Connell (Berkley, $7.99, 0425204650)
10. The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston, M.D. (St. Martin's, $7.99, 0312991193)

Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)

1. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
2. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $19.99, 0439554004)
3. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
4. High Rhulain (Redwall #18) by Brian Jacques, illustrated by David Elliot (Philomel, $23.99, 0399242082)
5. Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $16.95, 0375821821)
6. A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
7. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
8. The Invasion of the Boy Snatchers (The Clique #4) by Lisi Harrison (Little, Brown, $9.99, 0316701343)
9. Nothing Can Keep Us Together (Gossip Girl #8) by Cecily Von Ziegesar (Little, Brown, $9.99, 0316735094)
10. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
11. Junie B., First Grader: Boo . . . and I Mean It! by Barbara Park, illustrated by Denise Brunkus (Random House, $3.99, 0375828079)
12. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Scholastic, $7.99, 0439709105)
13. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $6.99, 059035342X)
14. Junie B., First Grader: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May) by Barbara Park, illustrated by Denise Brunkus (Random House, $11.95, 0375828087)
15. Season of the Sandstorms (Magic Tree House #34) by Mary Pope Osborne, illustrated by Sal Murdocca (Random House, $11.95, 0375830316)

[Many thanks to NEBA, the ABA and Book Sense!]
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