The following are the bestselling titles during the week ended Sunday,
October 16, at Great Lakes Booksellers Association and Midwest
Booksellers Association stores as reported to Book Sense.
Hardcover Fiction
1. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (Tor, $29.95, 0312873077)
2. The March by E. L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
3. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte, $28, 0385324162)
4. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.95, 0316734934)
5. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $26.95, 0060548932)
6. A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316738999)
7. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks (Warner, $24.95, 0446500127)
8. Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts (Putnam, $25.95, 0399153063)
9. Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn (Atria, $25.95, 0743270363)
10. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316011770)
11. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060515104)
12. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $21.95, 0375422994)
13. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, $26, 0743470117)
14. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95, 0670033944)
15. The Divide by Nicholas Evans (Putnam, $26.95, 0399152067)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
2. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200580)
3. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
4. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
5. 1776 by David McCullough (S&S, $32, 0743226712)
6. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Knopf, $30, 140004006X)
7. My FBI by Louis J. Freeh (St. Martin's, $25.95, 0312321899)
8. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance, $29.95, 0975599518)
9. What Remains by Carole Radziwill (Scribner, $25.95, 0743276949)
10. A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060571993)
11. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell (Little, Brown, $23.95, 031610969X)
12. Symptoms of Withdrawal by Christopher Kennedy Lawford (Morrow, $25.95, 0060732482)
13. The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren (Zondervan, $19.99, 0310205719)
14. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
15. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Dutton, $24.95, 0525948023)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $15, 0060987103)
3. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
4. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454537)
5. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Vintage, $14.95, 1400079497)
6. Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (Grove, $13, 0802142109)
7. Light on Snow by Anita Shreve (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316010677)
8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
9. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
10. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $16, 0743227441)
11. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
12. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
13. The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $16, 0743269268)
14. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
15. The Best American Short Stories 2005 edited by Michael Chabon (Houghton Mifflin, $14, 0618427058)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
2. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
3. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner et al. (Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400082315)
4. Sudoku Easy, Volume 1 by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355025)
5. Sudoku Easy to Hard edited by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355033)
6. Bad Dog by R. D. Rosen et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
7. Will in the World by Stephen J. Greenblatt (Norton, $14.95, 039332737X)
8. The End of Faith by Sam Harris (Norton, $13.95, 0393327655)
9. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
10. What to Expect When You're Expecting by Heidi E. Murkoff et al. (Workman, $13.95, 0761121323)
11. Sudoku Easy to Hard by Will Shortz (St. Martin's Griffin, $6.95, 0312355041)
12. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (Back Bay, $12.95, 0316159417)
13. Chronicles by Bob Dylan (S&S, $14, 0743244583)
14. Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (Random House, $14.95, 0375760989)
15. The Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis (St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95, 0312331037)
Mass Market
1. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime, $5.99, 0843955848)
2. London Bridges by James Patterson (Warner, $7.99, 0446613355)
3. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
4. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
5. Melancholy Baby by Robert B. Parker (Berkley, $7.99, 0425204219)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Warner, $6.99, 0446310786)
7. Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060527307)
8. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Dell, $7.99, 0440241359)
9. Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060584025)
10. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $7.99, 0312990456)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
2. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $19.99, 0439554004)
3. A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
5. Junie B., First Grader: Boo . . . and I Mean It! by Barbara Park, illustrated by Denise Brunkus (Random House, $3.99, 0375828079)
6. Nothing Can Keep Us Together (Gossip Girl #8) by Cecily Von Ziegesar (Little, Brown, $9.99, 0316735094)
7. 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)
8. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
9. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in) by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $6.99, 0553494791)
10. Winter's Tale: An Original Pop-Up Journey by Robert Sabuda (Little Simon, $26.95, 0689853637)
11. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
12. The Invasion of the Boy Snatchers (The Clique #4) by Lisi Harrison (Little, Brown, $9.99, 0316701343)
13. Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $16.95, 0375821821)
14. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $8.95, 0385731051)
15. Girls in Pants by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $16.95, 0385729359)
[Many thanks to Book Sense, the GLBA and the MBA!]
Hardcover Fiction
1. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (Tor, $29.95, 0312873077)
2. The March by E. L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
3. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte, $28, 0385324162)
4. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.95, 0316734934)
5. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $26.95, 0060548932)
6. A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316738999)
7. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks (Warner, $24.95, 0446500127)
8. Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts (Putnam, $25.95, 0399153063)
9. Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn (Atria, $25.95, 0743270363)
10. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316011770)
11. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060515104)
12. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $21.95, 0375422994)
13. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, $26, 0743470117)
14. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95, 0670033944)
15. The Divide by Nicholas Evans (Putnam, $26.95, 0399152067)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
2. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200580)
3. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
4. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
5. 1776 by David McCullough (S&S, $32, 0743226712)
6. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Knopf, $30, 140004006X)
7. My FBI by Louis J. Freeh (St. Martin's, $25.95, 0312321899)
8. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance, $29.95, 0975599518)
9. What Remains by Carole Radziwill (Scribner, $25.95, 0743276949)
10. A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060571993)
11. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell (Little, Brown, $23.95, 031610969X)
12. Symptoms of Withdrawal by Christopher Kennedy Lawford (Morrow, $25.95, 0060732482)
13. The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren (Zondervan, $19.99, 0310205719)
14. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
15. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Dutton, $24.95, 0525948023)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $15, 0060987103)
3. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
4. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454537)
5. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Vintage, $14.95, 1400079497)
6. Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (Grove, $13, 0802142109)
7. Light on Snow by Anita Shreve (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316010677)
8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
9. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
10. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $16, 0743227441)
11. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
12. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
13. The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $16, 0743269268)
14. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
15. The Best American Short Stories 2005 edited by Michael Chabon (Houghton Mifflin, $14, 0618427058)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
2. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
3. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner et al. (Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400082315)
4. Sudoku Easy, Volume 1 by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355025)
5. Sudoku Easy to Hard edited by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355033)
6. Bad Dog by R. D. Rosen et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
7. Will in the World by Stephen J. Greenblatt (Norton, $14.95, 039332737X)
8. The End of Faith by Sam Harris (Norton, $13.95, 0393327655)
9. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
10. What to Expect When You're Expecting by Heidi E. Murkoff et al. (Workman, $13.95, 0761121323)
11. Sudoku Easy to Hard by Will Shortz (St. Martin's Griffin, $6.95, 0312355041)
12. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (Back Bay, $12.95, 0316159417)
13. Chronicles by Bob Dylan (S&S, $14, 0743244583)
14. Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (Random House, $14.95, 0375760989)
15. The Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis (St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95, 0312331037)
Mass Market
1. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime, $5.99, 0843955848)
2. London Bridges by James Patterson (Warner, $7.99, 0446613355)
3. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
4. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
5. Melancholy Baby by Robert B. Parker (Berkley, $7.99, 0425204219)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Warner, $6.99, 0446310786)
7. Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060527307)
8. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Dell, $7.99, 0440241359)
9. Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060584025)
10. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $7.99, 0312990456)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
2. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $19.99, 0439554004)
3. A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
5. Junie B., First Grader: Boo . . . and I Mean It! by Barbara Park, illustrated by Denise Brunkus (Random House, $3.99, 0375828079)
6. Nothing Can Keep Us Together (Gossip Girl #8) by Cecily Von Ziegesar (Little, Brown, $9.99, 0316735094)
7. 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)
8. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
9. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in) by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $6.99, 0553494791)
10. Winter's Tale: An Original Pop-Up Journey by Robert Sabuda (Little Simon, $26.95, 0689853637)
11. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
12. The Invasion of the Boy Snatchers (The Clique #4) by Lisi Harrison (Little, Brown, $9.99, 0316701343)
13. Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $16.95, 0375821821)
14. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $8.95, 0385731051)
15. Girls in Pants by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $16.95, 0385729359)
[Many thanks to Book Sense, the GLBA and the MBA!]