The following are the bestselling titles during the week ended Sunday,
October 30, at Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association stores as
reported to Book Sense:
Hardcover Fiction
1. Predator by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $26.95, 0399152830)
2. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153012)
3. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Knopf, $20, 140004460X)
4. The March by E. L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
5. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (Tor, $29.95, 0312873077)
6. The Camel Club by David Baldacci (Warner, $26.95, 0446577383)
7. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.95, 0316734934)
8. The Scorpion's Gate by Richard A. Clarke (Putnam, $24.95, 0399152946)
9. At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.95, 0446532428)
10. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $26.95, 0060548932)
11. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte, $28, 0385324162)
12. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
13. A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316738999)
14. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks (Warner, $24.95, 0446500127)
15. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316011770)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Truth (With Jokes) by Al Franken (Dutton, $25.95, 0525949062)
2. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200580)
3. Healthy Aging by Andrew Weil (Knopf, $27.95, 0375407553)
4. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
5. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
6. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Dutton, $24.95, 0525948023)
7. A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060571993)
8. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $35, 0684824906)
9. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
10. 1776 by David McCullough (S&S, $32, 0743226712)
11. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Knopf, $30, 140004006X)
12. Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard (Penguin Press, $26.95, 1594200726)
13. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance, $29.95, 0975599518)
14. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell (Little, Brown, $23.95, 031610969X)
15. The River of Doubt by Candice Millard (Doubleday, $26, 0385507968)
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. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
7. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
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 Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
11. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
12. An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg (Vintage, $13.95, 1400076145)
13. The Alchemist (10th Anniversary Edition) by Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco, $13, 0062502182)
14. I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Picador, $15, 0312424442)
15. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, $15.95, 1582346038)
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. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
4. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen, $12.95, 1878424319)
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. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library, $14, 1577314808)
8. Bad Dog by R. D. Rosen et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
9. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $14.95, 1400032806)
10. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95, 0393317552)
11. Sudoku Easy, Volume 1 by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355025)
12. Sudoku Easy to Hard edited by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355033)
13. Clueless George Goes to War by Pat Bagley (White Horse, $7.95, 0974486051)
14. Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff (Chelsea Green, $10, 1931498717)
15. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95, 081297106X)
Mass Market
1. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
2. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (Avon, $7.99, 0061015733)
3. Whiteout by Ken Follett (Signet, $7.99, 0451215710)
4. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime, $5.99, 0843955848)
5. The Constant Gardener by John le Carre (Pocket, $7.99, 1416503900)
6. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Dell, $7.99, 0440241359
7. Deception Point by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027387)
8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Ballantine, $6.99, 0345342968)
9. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
10. The Witch's Tongue by James D. Doss (St. Martin's, $6.99, 0312991088)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12) by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064410153)
2. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
3. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $19.99, 0439554004)
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
5. Winter's Tale: An Original Pop-Up Journey by Robert Sabuda (Little Simon, $26.95, 0689853637)
6. Fairyopolis by Cicely Mary Barker (Frederick Warne, $19.99, 0723257248)
7. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (children's movie tie-in) by C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0060765461)
8. Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $16.95, 0375821821)
9. A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
10. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0064431789)
11. Dragonology by Ernest Drake, illustrated by Helen Ward and Douglas Carrel (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763623296)
12. 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)
13. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $8.99, 0439139600)
14. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
15. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and MPBA!]
Hardcover Fiction
1. Predator by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $26.95, 0399152830)
2. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153012)
3. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Knopf, $20, 140004460X)
4. The March by E. L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
5. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (Tor, $29.95, 0312873077)
6. The Camel Club by David Baldacci (Warner, $26.95, 0446577383)
7. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.95, 0316734934)
8. The Scorpion's Gate by Richard A. Clarke (Putnam, $24.95, 0399152946)
9. At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.95, 0446532428)
10. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $26.95, 0060548932)
11. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte, $28, 0385324162)
12. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
13. A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316738999)
14. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks (Warner, $24.95, 0446500127)
15. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316011770)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Truth (With Jokes) by Al Franken (Dutton, $25.95, 0525949062)
2. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200580)
3. Healthy Aging by Andrew Weil (Knopf, $27.95, 0375407553)
4. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
5. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
6. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Dutton, $24.95, 0525948023)
7. A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060571993)
8. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $35, 0684824906)
9. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
10. 1776 by David McCullough (S&S, $32, 0743226712)
11. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Knopf, $30, 140004006X)
12. Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard (Penguin Press, $26.95, 1594200726)
13. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance, $29.95, 0975599518)
14. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell (Little, Brown, $23.95, 031610969X)
15. The River of Doubt by Candice Millard (Doubleday, $26, 0385507968)
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. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
7. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
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 Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
11. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
12. An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg (Vintage, $13.95, 1400076145)
13. The Alchemist (10th Anniversary Edition) by Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco, $13, 0062502182)
14. I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Picador, $15, 0312424442)
15. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, $15.95, 1582346038)
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. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
4. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen, $12.95, 1878424319)
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. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library, $14, 1577314808)
8. Bad Dog by R. D. Rosen et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
9. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $14.95, 1400032806)
10. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95, 0393317552)
11. Sudoku Easy, Volume 1 by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355025)
12. Sudoku Easy to Hard edited by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355033)
13. Clueless George Goes to War by Pat Bagley (White Horse, $7.95, 0974486051)
14. Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff (Chelsea Green, $10, 1931498717)
15. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95, 081297106X)
Mass Market
1. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
2. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (Avon, $7.99, 0061015733)
3. Whiteout by Ken Follett (Signet, $7.99, 0451215710)
4. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime, $5.99, 0843955848)
5. The Constant Gardener by John le Carre (Pocket, $7.99, 1416503900)
6. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Dell, $7.99, 0440241359
7. Deception Point by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027387)
8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Ballantine, $6.99, 0345342968)
9. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
10. The Witch's Tongue by James D. Doss (St. Martin's, $6.99, 0312991088)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12) by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064410153)
2. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
3. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $19.99, 0439554004)
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
5. Winter's Tale: An Original Pop-Up Journey by Robert Sabuda (Little Simon, $26.95, 0689853637)
6. Fairyopolis by Cicely Mary Barker (Frederick Warne, $19.99, 0723257248)
7. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (children's movie tie-in) by C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0060765461)
8. Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $16.95, 0375821821)
9. A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
10. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0064431789)
11. Dragonology by Ernest Drake, illustrated by Helen Ward and Douglas Carrel (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763623296)
12. 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)
13. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $8.99, 0439139600)
14. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
15. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and MPBA!]