The following were the bestselling titles at Mountains & Plains
Independent Booksellers Association stores during the week ended
Sunday, January 14, as reported to Book Sense:
Hardcover Fiction
1. Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $16.95, 9780312306342)
2. The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins, $26.95, 9780060563455)
3. Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison (Grove, $24, 9780802118387)
4. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $23.95, 9781565124998)
5. For One More Day by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401303273)
6. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (FSG, $25, 9780374146351)
7. Exile by Richard North Patterson (Holt, $26, 9780805079470)
8. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, $24, 9780307265432)
9. Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $25.95, 9780307262998)
10. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $25.95, 9780743272506)
11. Next by Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, $27.95, 9780060872984)
12. Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (HarperCollins, $27.95, 9780061130359)
13. Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris (Delacorte, $27.95, 9780385339414)
14. Thirst by Mary Oliver (Beacon, $22, 9780807068960)
15. The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown, $25.99, 9780316017442)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. (Free Press, $25, 9780743292542)
2. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (Crown, $25, 9780307237699)
3. Palestine by Jimmy Carter (S&S, $27, 9780743285025)
4. About Alice by Calvin Trillin (Random House, $14.95, 9781400066155)
5. The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim (Rodale, $22.50, 9781594865138)
6. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Knopf, $19.95, 9780307264558)
7. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, $27, 9780618680009)
8. Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides (Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385507776)
9. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris (Knopf, $16.95, 9780307265777)
10. Marley & Me by John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95, 9780060817084)
11. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Viking, $25.95, 9780670034826)
12. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594200823)
13. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking, $29.95, 9780670037605)
14. Cesar's Way by Cesar Millan and Melissa Jo Peltier (Harmony, $24.95, 9780307337337)
15. This I Believe edited by Jay Allison, Dan Gediman (Holt, $23, 9780805080872)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14, 9780143037149)
2. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Grove, $14, 9780802142818)
3. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House, $13.95, 9780812968064)
4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 9781594480003)
5. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316010702)
6. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (Norton, $13.95, 9780393328622)
7. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 9780375706868)
8. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95, 9780061122415)
9. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 9780743454537)
10. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $16, 9780743227445)
11. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier (Vintage, $13.95, 9781400095957)
12. March by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin, $14, 9780143036661)
13. Arthur and George by Julian Barnes (Vintage, $14.95, 9781400097036)
14. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Mariner, $13.95, 9780618711659)
15. The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea (Back Bay, $14.95, 9780316154529)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (Mariner, $14.95, 9780618773473)
2. Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773)
3. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $19.95, 9780743270755)
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14, 9780743247542)
5. The Iraq Study Group Report (Vintage, $10.95, 9780307386564)
6. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Vintage, $14.95, 9781400032051)
7. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (Random House, $14.95, 9780812973013)
8. The Places in Between by Rory Stewart (Harvest, $14, 9780156031561)
9. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310)
10. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library, $14, 9781577314806)
11. The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Random House, $13.95, 9780375760396)
12. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 9780375725609)
13. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2007 (World Almanac, $12.99, 9780886879952)
14. The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer (Hyperion, $14.95, 9780786888764)
15. The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman (Penguin, $15, 9780143038788)
Mass Market
1. 1984 by George Orwell (Signet, $7.95, 9780451524935)
2. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition (Merriam-Webster, $7.50, 9780877799290)
3. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton (Berkley, $7.99, 9780425212691)
4. The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell by Lilian Jackson Braun (Jove, $7.99, 9780515142419)
5. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (Tor, $7.99, 9780812577563)
6. The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury (Signet, $9.99, 9780451219954)
7. The Cell by Stephen King (Pocket, $9.99, 9781416524519)
8. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $9.99, 9781416524793)
9. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Warner, $6.99, 9780316769488)
10. Nothing But Trouble by Michael McGarrity (Onyx, $7.99, 9780451412287)
Children's Titles
1. Forever in Blue (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, #4) by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $18.99, 9780385729369)
2. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Laurel-Leaf, $6.99, 9780440238485)
3. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 9780694003617)
4. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 9780375826702)
5. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Megan Tingley, $17.99, 9780316160193)
6. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins, $16.95, 9780060254926)
7. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick, $7.99, 9780763625290)
8. Pirateology by Captain William Lubber (Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763631437)
9. Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots? by Carmela Lavigna Coyle, illustrated by Mike Gordon (Rising Moon, $15.95, 9780873588287)
10. The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin (Harcourt, $7, 9780152052607)
11. Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser (HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780060542092)
12. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (HarperTrophy, $7.99, 9780064400558)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $9.99, 9780439358071)
14. On the Day You Were Born by Debra Frasier (Harcourt, $16, 9780152579951)
15. Cross-Country Cat by Mary Calhoun, illustrated by Erick Ingraham (HarperTrophy, $6.99, 9780688065195)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and MPIBA!]
Hardcover Fiction
1. Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $16.95, 9780312306342)
2. The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins, $26.95, 9780060563455)
3. Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison (Grove, $24, 9780802118387)
4. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $23.95, 9781565124998)
5. For One More Day by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401303273)
6. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (FSG, $25, 9780374146351)
7. Exile by Richard North Patterson (Holt, $26, 9780805079470)
8. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, $24, 9780307265432)
9. Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $25.95, 9780307262998)
10. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $25.95, 9780743272506)
11. Next by Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, $27.95, 9780060872984)
12. Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (HarperCollins, $27.95, 9780061130359)
13. Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris (Delacorte, $27.95, 9780385339414)
14. Thirst by Mary Oliver (Beacon, $22, 9780807068960)
15. The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown, $25.99, 9780316017442)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. (Free Press, $25, 9780743292542)
2. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (Crown, $25, 9780307237699)
3. Palestine by Jimmy Carter (S&S, $27, 9780743285025)
4. About Alice by Calvin Trillin (Random House, $14.95, 9781400066155)
5. The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim (Rodale, $22.50, 9781594865138)
6. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Knopf, $19.95, 9780307264558)
7. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, $27, 9780618680009)
8. Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides (Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385507776)
9. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris (Knopf, $16.95, 9780307265777)
10. Marley & Me by John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95, 9780060817084)
11. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Viking, $25.95, 9780670034826)
12. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594200823)
13. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking, $29.95, 9780670037605)
14. Cesar's Way by Cesar Millan and Melissa Jo Peltier (Harmony, $24.95, 9780307337337)
15. This I Believe edited by Jay Allison, Dan Gediman (Holt, $23, 9780805080872)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14, 9780143037149)
2. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Grove, $14, 9780802142818)
3. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House, $13.95, 9780812968064)
4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 9781594480003)
5. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316010702)
6. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (Norton, $13.95, 9780393328622)
7. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 9780375706868)
8. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95, 9780061122415)
9. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 9780743454537)
10. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $16, 9780743227445)
11. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier (Vintage, $13.95, 9781400095957)
12. March by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin, $14, 9780143036661)
13. Arthur and George by Julian Barnes (Vintage, $14.95, 9781400097036)
14. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Mariner, $13.95, 9780618711659)
15. The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea (Back Bay, $14.95, 9780316154529)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (Mariner, $14.95, 9780618773473)
2. Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773)
3. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $19.95, 9780743270755)
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14, 9780743247542)
5. The Iraq Study Group Report (Vintage, $10.95, 9780307386564)
6. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Vintage, $14.95, 9781400032051)
7. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (Random House, $14.95, 9780812973013)
8. The Places in Between by Rory Stewart (Harvest, $14, 9780156031561)
9. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310)
10. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library, $14, 9781577314806)
11. The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Random House, $13.95, 9780375760396)
12. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 9780375725609)
13. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2007 (World Almanac, $12.99, 9780886879952)
14. The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer (Hyperion, $14.95, 9780786888764)
15. The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman (Penguin, $15, 9780143038788)
Mass Market
1. 1984 by George Orwell (Signet, $7.95, 9780451524935)
2. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition (Merriam-Webster, $7.50, 9780877799290)
3. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton (Berkley, $7.99, 9780425212691)
4. The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell by Lilian Jackson Braun (Jove, $7.99, 9780515142419)
5. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (Tor, $7.99, 9780812577563)
6. The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury (Signet, $9.99, 9780451219954)
7. The Cell by Stephen King (Pocket, $9.99, 9781416524519)
8. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $9.99, 9781416524793)
9. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Warner, $6.99, 9780316769488)
10. Nothing But Trouble by Michael McGarrity (Onyx, $7.99, 9780451412287)
Children's Titles
1. Forever in Blue (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, #4) by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $18.99, 9780385729369)
2. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Laurel-Leaf, $6.99, 9780440238485)
3. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 9780694003617)
4. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 9780375826702)
5. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Megan Tingley, $17.99, 9780316160193)
6. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins, $16.95, 9780060254926)
7. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick, $7.99, 9780763625290)
8. Pirateology by Captain William Lubber (Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763631437)
9. Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots? by Carmela Lavigna Coyle, illustrated by Mike Gordon (Rising Moon, $15.95, 9780873588287)
10. The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin (Harcourt, $7, 9780152052607)
11. Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser (HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780060542092)
12. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (HarperTrophy, $7.99, 9780064400558)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $9.99, 9780439358071)
14. On the Day You Were Born by Debra Frasier (Harcourt, $16, 9780152579951)
15. Cross-Country Cat by Mary Calhoun, illustrated by Erick Ingraham (HarperTrophy, $6.99, 9780688065195)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and MPIBA!]