The following were the bestselling titles during the week ended Sunday,
February 4, at member bookstores of the New Atlantic Independent
Booksellers Association as reported to Book Sense:
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer (Random House, $27.95, 9780394536491)
2. You Suck by Christopher Moore (Morrow, $21.95, 9780060590291)
3. House of Meetings by Martin Amis (Knopf, $23, 9781400044559)
4. Dust by Martha Grimes (Viking, $25.95, 9780670037865)
5. Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $16.95, 9780312306342)
6. Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (HarperCollins, $27.95, 9780061130359)
7. For One More Day by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401303273)
8. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (Knopf, $25, 9781400044733)
9. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $25.95, 9780743272506)
10. The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry (Ballantine, $25.95, 9780345485755)
11. What Is the What by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's, $26, 9781932416640)
12. Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster (Holt, $22, 9780805081459)
13. The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (Knopf, $25, 9780307264190)
14. Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.99, 9780316159791)
15. Deep Storm by Lincoln Child (Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385515504)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. About Alice by Calvin Trillin (Random House, $14.95, 9781400066155)
2. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (Crown, $25, 9780307237699)
3. Palestine by Jimmy Carter (S&S, $27, 9780743285025)
4. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Knopf, $19.95, 9780307264558)
5. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, $27, 9780618680009)
6. You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. (Free Press, $25, 9780743292542)
7. Power, Faith, and Fantasy by Michael B. Oren (Norton, $35, 9780393058260)
8. Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet (Free Press, $24, 9781416535072)
9. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594200823)
10. Positively American by Chuck Schumer (Rodale, $24.95, 9781594865725)
11. The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene (S&S, $26, 9781416540663)
12. Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin (Penguin Press, $35, 9781594201189)
13. Supreme Conflict by Jan Crawford Greenburg (Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594201011)
14. American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever (S&S, $26, 9780743264617)
15. American Fascists by Chris Hedges (Free Press, $25, 9780743284431)
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. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 9780375706868)
5. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (Norton, $13.95, 9780393328622)
6. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95, 9780061122415)
7. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 9781594480003)
8. March by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin, $14, 9780143036661)
9. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier (Vintage, $13.95, 9781400095957)
10. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316010702)
11. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (Riverhead, $15, 9781594482304)
12. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 9780743454537)
13. The Children of Men by P.D. James (Vintage, $13.95, 9780307275431)
14. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $15, 9780143037743)
15. The Sea by John Banville (Vintage, $12.95, 9781400097029)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95, 9780061357909)
2. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin, $15, 9780143038412)
3. The Places in Between by Rory Stewart (Harvest, $14, 9780156031561)
4. The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers (Broadway, $13.95, 9780767924900)
5. Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773)
6. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (Picador, $14, 9780312425418)
7. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (Mariner, $14.95, 9780618773473)
8. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14, 9780743247542)
9. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 9780375725609)
10. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Random House, $13.95, 9780812977363)
11. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 9780316346627)
12. The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner (Amistad, $14.95, 9780060744878)
13. 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper (Revell, $12.99, 9780800759490)
14. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $19.95, 9780743270755)
15. Zagat Survey: New York City Restaurants 2007 (Zagat, $14.95, 9781570068157)
Mass Market
1. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton (Berkley, $7.99, 9780425212691)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Warner, $6.99, 9780446310789)
3. The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury (Signet, $9.99, 9780451219954)
4. Dirty Blonde by Lisa Scottoline (HarperCollins, $7.99, 9780060742911)
5. 1984 by George Orwell (Signet, $7.95, 9780451524935)
6. The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry (Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345476166)
7. Honeymoon by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Warner, $7.99, 9780446613378)
8. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition (Merriam-Webster, $7.50, 9780877799290)
9. The Two Minute Rule by Robert Crais (Pocket, $7.99, 9781416514961)
10. Point Blank by Catherine Coulter (Jove, $7.99, 9780515141689)
Children's Titles
1. Forever in Blue (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, #4) by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $18.99, 9780385729369)
2. Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentine by Barbara Park (Random House, $3.99, 9780375800399)
3. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (HarperEntertainment, $6.99, 9780061227288)
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Laurel-Leaf, $6.99, 9780440238485)
5. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (HarperEntertainment, $7.99, 9780061120268)
6. Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion, $17, 9780618194575)
7. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 9780694003617)
8. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic, $22.99, 9780439813785)
9. The Cupid Chronicles by Coleen Paratore (S&S, $15.95, 9781416908678)
10. The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13) by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $12.99, 9780064410168)
11. Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw (Firefly, $4.95, 9780920668375)
12. The Wedding Planner's Daughter by Coleen Murtagh Paratore (Aladdin, $5.99, 9781416918547)
13. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick, $18.99, 9780763625894)
14. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick, $5.99, 9780763625580)
15. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $6.99, 9780590353427)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and NAIBA!]
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer (Random House, $27.95, 9780394536491)
2. You Suck by Christopher Moore (Morrow, $21.95, 9780060590291)
3. House of Meetings by Martin Amis (Knopf, $23, 9781400044559)
4. Dust by Martha Grimes (Viking, $25.95, 9780670037865)
5. Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $16.95, 9780312306342)
6. Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (HarperCollins, $27.95, 9780061130359)
7. For One More Day by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401303273)
8. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (Knopf, $25, 9781400044733)
9. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $25.95, 9780743272506)
10. The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry (Ballantine, $25.95, 9780345485755)
11. What Is the What by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's, $26, 9781932416640)
12. Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster (Holt, $22, 9780805081459)
13. The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (Knopf, $25, 9780307264190)
14. Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.99, 9780316159791)
15. Deep Storm by Lincoln Child (Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385515504)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. About Alice by Calvin Trillin (Random House, $14.95, 9781400066155)
2. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (Crown, $25, 9780307237699)
3. Palestine by Jimmy Carter (S&S, $27, 9780743285025)
4. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Knopf, $19.95, 9780307264558)
5. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, $27, 9780618680009)
6. You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. (Free Press, $25, 9780743292542)
7. Power, Faith, and Fantasy by Michael B. Oren (Norton, $35, 9780393058260)
8. Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet (Free Press, $24, 9781416535072)
9. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594200823)
10. Positively American by Chuck Schumer (Rodale, $24.95, 9781594865725)
11. The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene (S&S, $26, 9781416540663)
12. Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin (Penguin Press, $35, 9781594201189)
13. Supreme Conflict by Jan Crawford Greenburg (Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594201011)
14. American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever (S&S, $26, 9780743264617)
15. American Fascists by Chris Hedges (Free Press, $25, 9780743284431)
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. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 9780375706868)
5. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (Norton, $13.95, 9780393328622)
6. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95, 9780061122415)
7. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 9781594480003)
8. March by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin, $14, 9780143036661)
9. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier (Vintage, $13.95, 9781400095957)
10. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316010702)
11. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (Riverhead, $15, 9781594482304)
12. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 9780743454537)
13. The Children of Men by P.D. James (Vintage, $13.95, 9780307275431)
14. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $15, 9780143037743)
15. The Sea by John Banville (Vintage, $12.95, 9781400097029)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95, 9780061357909)
2. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin, $15, 9780143038412)
3. The Places in Between by Rory Stewart (Harvest, $14, 9780156031561)
4. The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers (Broadway, $13.95, 9780767924900)
5. Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773)
6. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (Picador, $14, 9780312425418)
7. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (Mariner, $14.95, 9780618773473)
8. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14, 9780743247542)
9. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 9780375725609)
10. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Random House, $13.95, 9780812977363)
11. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 9780316346627)
12. The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner (Amistad, $14.95, 9780060744878)
13. 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper (Revell, $12.99, 9780800759490)
14. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $19.95, 9780743270755)
15. Zagat Survey: New York City Restaurants 2007 (Zagat, $14.95, 9781570068157)
Mass Market
1. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton (Berkley, $7.99, 9780425212691)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Warner, $6.99, 9780446310789)
3. The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury (Signet, $9.99, 9780451219954)
4. Dirty Blonde by Lisa Scottoline (HarperCollins, $7.99, 9780060742911)
5. 1984 by George Orwell (Signet, $7.95, 9780451524935)
6. The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry (Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345476166)
7. Honeymoon by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Warner, $7.99, 9780446613378)
8. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition (Merriam-Webster, $7.50, 9780877799290)
9. The Two Minute Rule by Robert Crais (Pocket, $7.99, 9781416514961)
10. Point Blank by Catherine Coulter (Jove, $7.99, 9780515141689)
Children's Titles
1. Forever in Blue (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, #4) by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $18.99, 9780385729369)
2. Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentine by Barbara Park (Random House, $3.99, 9780375800399)
3. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (HarperEntertainment, $6.99, 9780061227288)
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Laurel-Leaf, $6.99, 9780440238485)
5. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (HarperEntertainment, $7.99, 9780061120268)
6. Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion, $17, 9780618194575)
7. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 9780694003617)
8. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic, $22.99, 9780439813785)
9. The Cupid Chronicles by Coleen Paratore (S&S, $15.95, 9781416908678)
10. The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13) by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $12.99, 9780064410168)
11. Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw (Firefly, $4.95, 9780920668375)
12. The Wedding Planner's Daughter by Coleen Murtagh Paratore (Aladdin, $5.99, 9781416918547)
13. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick, $18.99, 9780763625894)
14. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick, $5.99, 9780763625580)
15. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $6.99, 9780590353427)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and NAIBA!]