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The New Atlantic Independent Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, April 20, 2008. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and Book Sense.
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| HARDCOVER FICTION |
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1. Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri, Knopf, $25, 9780307265739
2. The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $22.95, 9780375424489
3. Hold Tight
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $26.95, 9780525950608
4. Lush Life
Richard Price, FSG, $26, 9780374299255
5. The Appeal
John Grisham, Doubleday, $27.95, 9780385515047
6. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz, Riverhead, $24.95, 9781594489587
7. Certain Girls
Jennifer Weiner, Atria, $26.95, 9780743294256
8. Where Are You Now?
Mary Higgins Clark, S&S, $25.95, 9781416566380
9. People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $25.95, 9780670018215
10. Our Story Begins
Tobias Wolff, Knopf, $26.95, 9781400044597
11. A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $25.95, 9781594489501
12. The Ten-Year Nap
Meg Wolitzer, Riverhead, $24.95, 9781594489785
13. World Without End
Ken Follett, Dutton, $35, 9780525950073
14. Belong to Me
Marisa de los Santos, Morrow, $24.95, 9780061240270
15. The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett, FSG, $15, 9780374280963
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| HARDCOVER NONFICTION |
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1. The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401323257
2. Ladies of Liberty
Cokie Roberts, Morrow, $26.95, 9780060782344
3. Armageddon in Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155086
4. Girls Like Us
Sheila Weller, Atria, $27.95, 9780743491471
5. In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $21.95, 9781594201455
6. Just Who Will You Be?
Maria Shriver, Hyperion, $14.95, 9781401323189
7. The Secret
Rhonda Byrne, Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95, 9781582701707
8. Home
Julie Andrews, Hyperion, $26.95, 9780786865659
9. Beautiful Boy
David Sheff, Houghton Mifflin, $24, 9780618683352
10. Bonk
Mary Roach, Norton, $24.95, 9780393064643
11. Mistaken Identity
Newell Cerak, et al., Howard, $21.99, 9781416567356
12. Terror and Consent
Philip Bobbitt, Knopf, $35, 9781400042432
13. Maps and Legends
Michael Chabon, McSweeney's, $24, 9781932416893
14. What Now?
Ann Patchett, Harper, $14.95, 9780061340659
15. The Nine
Jeffrey Toobin, Doubleday, $27.95, 9780385516402 |
| TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION |
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1. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781565125605
2. The Gathering
Anne Enright, Black Cat, $14, 9780802170392
3. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards, Penguin, $14, 9780143037149
4. The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs, Berkley, $14, 9780425219096
5. What Is the What
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307385901
6. Loving Frank
Nancy Horan, Ballantine, $14, 9780345495006
7. Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400096275
8. The Gravedigger's Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates, Harper Perennial, $15.95, 9780061236839
9. The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $15, 9781594480003
10. Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult, Washington Square, $15, 9780743496735
11. Then We Came to the End
Joshua Ferris, Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316016391
12. The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $16, 9780743227445
13. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $12.95, 9781400075720
14. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See, Random House, $14, 9780812968064
15. Peony in Love
Lisa See, Random House, $14, 9780812975222
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1. A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle, Plume, $14, 9780452289963
2. Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15, 9780143038412
3. Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252
4. Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773
5. The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307237705
6. The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $16, 9780143038580
7. The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle, New World, $14, 9781577314806
8. The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins, Mariner, $15.95, 9780618918249
9. John Adams
David McCullough, S&S, $20, 9781416575887
10. Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Free Press, $15, 9780743289696
11. Marley & Me
John Grogan, Harper, $13.95, 9780060817091
12. Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307387172
13. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9780743247542
14. Kabul Beauty School
Deborah Rodriguez, Random House, $14.95, 9780812976731
15. I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Sloane Crosley, Riverhead, $14, 9781594483066
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1. What the Dead Know
Laura Lippman, Harper, $7.99, 9780061128868
2. The Woods
Harlan Coben, Signet, $9.99, 9780451221957
3. Simple Genius
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $9.99, 9780446618731
4. Bad Luck and Trouble
Lee Child, Dell, $7.99, 9780440243663
5. The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett, Signet, $7.99, 9780451166890
6. The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory, Pocket Star, $7.99, 9781416556534
7. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99, 9780316769488
8. The Ruins
Scott Smith, Vintage, $7.99, 9780307278289
9. The Faithful Spy
Alex Berenson, Jove, $9.99, 9780515144345
10. 21: Bringing Down the House
Ben Mezrich, Pocket Star, $7.99, 9781416561705
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1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810993136
2. Gallop!
Rufus Butler Seder, Workman, $12.95, 9780761147633
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810994737
4. Dark Day in the Deep Sea (Magic Tree House #39)
Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $11.99, 9780375837319
5. Twilight
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316015844
6. Massie (Clique Summer Collection #1)
Lisi Harrison, Poppy, $6.99, 9780316027519
7. New Moon
Stephenie Meyer, Megan Tingley, $19.99, 9780316160193
8. The Pigeon Wants a Puppy
Mo Willems, Hyperion, $14.99, 9781423109600
9. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $11.99, 9780375842207
10. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $17.99, 9780679805274
11. Tweak
Nic Sheff, Ginee Seo, $16.99, 9781416913627
12. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $18.99, 9780316160209
13. Fancy Nancy Bonjour, Butterfly
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper, $16.99, 9780061235887
14. Queste (Septimus Heap Book 4)
Angie Sage, Katherine Tegen, $17.99, 9780060882075
15. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $17.95, 9780060254926
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