FICTION Last week/Weeks on list

1. S is For Silence, —/1

by Sue Grafton

2. Mary, Mary, 2/4

by James Patterson

3. At First Sight, 2/8

by Nicholas Sparks

4. Predator, 6/7

by Patricia Cornwell

5. Light from Heaven, 3/5

by Jan Karon

6. Amazing Peace, /1

by Maya Angelou

7. The Da Vinci Code, 7/142

by Dan Brown (illustrated edition)

8. Forever Odd, 4/2

by Dean Koontz

9. The Lighthouse, 7/3

by P.D. James

10. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, 10/6

by Anne Rice

NONFICTION

1. Teacher Man, 1/4

by Frank McCourt

2. Our Endangered Values, 2/6

by Jimmy Carter

3. Team of Rivals, 3/7

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

4. The World is Flat, 4/36

by Thomas Friedman

5. Marley and Me, 5/8

by John Grogan

6. 1776, 6/29

by David McCullough

7. The Year of Magical Thinking, 7/10

by Joan Didion

8. Freakonomics, 8/35

by Steven Levitt

and Stephen Dubner

9. The Truth (With Jokes), 9/7

by Al Franken

10. My Friend Leonard, 10/10

by James Frey

ADVICE, HOW-TO

AND MISCELLANEOUS

1. Love Smart, 1/1

by Phil McGraw

2. Redneck Dictionary, 2/1

by Jeff Foxworthy et. al

3. Guinness World Records 2006, 3/10

4. The Purpose-Driven Life, 4/152

by Rick Warren

5. Your Best Life Now, 5/60

by Joel Osteen

PAPERBACK BESTSELLERS

1. Red Lily, 1/3

by Nora Roberts

2. The Broker, 2/3

by John Gresham

3. Memoirs of a Geisha, 3/47

by Arthur Golden

4. State of Fear, 4/7

by Michael Crouching

5. Going Home, 5/2

by Nora Roberts

6. The Kite Runner, 6/66

by Khaled Hosseini

7. Wicked, 7/15

by Gregory Maguire

8. Life Expectancy, 8/7

by Dean Koontz

9. Whiteout, 9/7

by Ken Follett

10. Manhunt, 10/2

by Janet Evanovich

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. A Million Little Pieces, 1/12

by James Frey

2. Worth More Dead, 2/2

by Ann Rule

3. In Cold Blood, 3/43

by Truman Capote

4. The Devil in the White City, 4/96

by Erik Larson

5. The Tipping Point, 5/70

by Malcolm Gladwell

6. The Chronicles of Narnia: 6/3

The Official Illustrated

Movie Companion,

by Perry Moore

7. When Will Jesus Bring 7/6

the Pork Chops?

by George Carlin

8. Jarhead, 8/9

by Anthony Swofford

9. Cash: The Autobiography, 9/4

by Johnny Cash

10. Guns, Germs and Steel, 10/171

by Jared Diamond

PAPERBACK ADVICE, HOW-TO

AND MISCELLANEOUS

1. 365: No Repeats, 1/6

by Rachel Ray

2. Why do Men Have Nipples? 2/19

by Mark Leyner

and Billy Goldberg

3. The World Almanac 3/4

and Book of Facts,

4. 1,000 Places to See 4/53

Before You Die,

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5. The O'Reilly Factor for Kids, 5/7

by Bill O'Reilly

and Charles Flowers

Rankings reflect sales figures at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent sales in all such outlets nationwide. An (x) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above.

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