FICTION Last week/Weeks on list

1. The Lincoln Lawyer, /1 by Michael Connelly

2. Blue Smoke, —/1 by Nora Roberts

3. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, 1/2 by Diana Gabaldon

4. Son a Witch, 2/2 by Gregory Maguire

5. The March, 4/3 by E. L. Doctorow

6. Goodnight Nobody, 5/3 by Jennifer Weiner

7. The Da Vinci Code, 9/134 by Dan Brown

8. Gabriel's Angel, 11/2 by Nora Roberts

9. School Days, 3/2 by Robert B. Parker

10. Everyone Worth Knowing, —/1 by Lauren Weisberger

NONFICTION

1. The City of Falling Angels, 1/2 by John Berendt

2. The World is Flat, 1/27 by Thomas Friedman

3. Freakonomics, 3/26 by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

4. The Year of Magical Thinking, —/1 by Joan Didion

5. 1776, 5/20 by David McCullough

6. What Remains, 4/2 by Carole Radziwill

7. Life is not a Fairy Tale, —/1 by Fantasia

8. Blink, 6/39 by Malcolm Gladwell

9. The Game, 15/4 by Neil Strauss

10. Phenomenon, 7/2 by Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison

ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS

1. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About, 1/16 by Kevin Trudeau

2. The Purpose-Driven Life, 2/143 by Rick Warren

3. Your Best Life Now, 3/51 by Joel Osteen

4. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, 4/1 by Bill Watterson

5. It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken, 5/1 by Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt

4. You: The Owner's Manual, 4/22 by Michael Roisen and Mehmet Oz

5. Guinness World Records 2006, 5/5

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Northern Lights, 1/2 by Nora Roberts

2. London Bridges, 2/2 by James Patterson

3. Echoes, 3/2 by Danielle Steel

4. Twisted, 4/2 by Jonathan Kellerman

5. The Colorado Kid, 5/1 by Stephen King

6. The Kite Runner, 6/57 by Khaled Hosseini

7. Hour Game, 7/6 by David Baldacci

8. Metro Girl, 8/2 by Janet Evanovich

9. Wicked, 9/6 by Gregory Maquire

10. Unexpected Blessings, 10/1 by Barbara Taylor Bradford

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. A Million Little Pieces, 1/3 by James Frey

2. The Tipping Point, 2/61 by Malcolm Gladwell

3. Chronicles, Volume One, 3/4 by Bob Dylan

4. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, 4/3 by Terry Ryan

5. Green River Running Red, 5/2 by Ann Rule

6. The Devil in the White City, 6/87 by Erik Larson

7. How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), 7/1 by Ann Coulter

8. Nickel and Dimed, 8/98 by Barbara Ehrenreich

9. Reading Lolita in Tehran, 9/93 by Azar Nafisi

10. The Lost Chronicles, 10/1 by Mark Cotta Vaz

PAPERBACK ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS

1. Why do Men have Nipples? 1/10 by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg

2. The South Beach Diet, 2/25 by Arthur Agatston

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3. What to Expect when You're Expecting, 3/241 by Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway

4. Bad Dog, 4/4 by R.D. Rosen, Harry Prichett and Rob Battles

5. The O'Reilly Factor for Kids, 5/1 by Bill O'Reilly and Charles Flowers


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