FICTION Last week/Weeks on list

1. The Appeal, 1/4 by John Grisham

2. Strangers in Death, —/1 by J.D. Robb

3. 7th Heaven, 2/3 by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

4. Lady Killer, —/1 by Lisa Scottoline

5. Duma Key, 3/5 by Stephen King

6. A Thousand Splendid Suns, 4/40 by Khaled Hosseini

7. World Without End, 6/20 by Ken Follett

8. The Killing Ground, 7/2 by Jack Higgins

9. Stranger in Paradise, 5/3 by Robert B. Parker

10. The First Patient, —/1 by Michael Palmer

NONFICTION

1. Liberal Fascism, 7/7 by Jonah Goldberg

2. In Defense of Food, 1/8 by Michael Pollan

3. The Age of American 6/2 Unreason, by Susan Jacoby

4. Reconciliation, 2/2 by Benazir Bhutto

5. Predictably Irrational, —/1 by Dan Ariely

6. I Am America 5/20 (And So Can You!), by Stephen Colbert et al.

7. An Inconvenient Book, 4/14 by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe

8. Real Change, 3/6 by Newt Gingrich with Vince Haley and Rick Tyler

9. God's Problem, —/1 by Bart D. Ehrman

10. Manic, —/1 by Terri Cheney

ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS

1. The Secret, 1/59 by Rhonda Byrne

2. Women and Money, 2/11 by Suze Orman

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3. The Third Jesus, 3/1 by Deepak Chopra

4. Become A Better You, 4/19 by Joel Osteen

5. You: Staying Young, 5/17 by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz et al.

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Feb. 24, 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.

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