FICTION Last week/Weeks on list
1. Water for Elephants, 1/17
by Sara Gruen
2. The Kite Runner, 2/127
by Khaled Hosseini
3. The Memory Keeper's 3/60
Daughter,
by Kim Edwards
4. Echo Park, 4/3
by Michael Connelly
5. Almost Dead, 5/2
by Lisa Jackson
6. Ricochet, 6/3
by Sandra Brown
7. The Emperor's Children, 7/5
by Clair Messud
8. Dockside, 8/3
by Susan Wiggs
9. Touch of Darkness, 9/1
by Christina Dodd
10. The MacGregor Brides, 10/3
by Nora Roberts
NONFICTION
1. Eat, Pray, Love, 1/29
by Elizabeth Gilbert
2. The Glass Castle, 2/83
by Jeannette Walls
3. 90 Minutes in Heaven, 3/42
by Don Piper
with Cecil Murphey
4. Blink, 4/19
by Malcolm Gladwell
5. The World Is Flat, 5/3
by Thomas L. Friedman
6. Night, 6/77
by Elie Wiesel
7. Three Cups of Tea, 7/28
by Greg Mortenson
and David Oliver Relin
8. The Tipping Point, 8/156
by Malcolm Gladwell
9. The Devil in the White City, 9/156
by Erik Larson
10. Chosen by a Horse, 10/7
by Susan Richards
ADVICE, HOW-TO
AND MISCELLANEOUS
1. Skinny Bitch, 1/5
by Rory Freedman
and Kim Barnouin
2. What to Expect 2/326
When You're Expecting,
by Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg
and Sandee Hathaway
3. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, 3/334
by Robert E. Kiyosaki
with Sharon Lechter
5. The Five Love Languages, 4/13
by Gary Chapman
6. 1,000 Places to See 5/9
in the U.S.A. and Canada
Before You Die,
by Patricia Schultz
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended May 5, at almost 4,000 bookstores, plus wholesalers serving 60,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide.