New York Times News Service
FICTION Last week/Weeks on list
1. Nineteen Minutes, 1/8
by Jodi Picoult
2. Water for Elephants, 2/30
by Sara Gruen
3. The Other Boleyn Girl, 3/10
by Philippa Gregory
4. The Friday Night Knitting Club, 4/13
by Kate Jacobs
5. The Kite Runner, 5/30
by Khaled Hosseini
6. The Memory Keeper's 6/30
Daughter,
by Kim Edwards
7. The Pillars of the Earth, 7/20
by Ken Follet
8. Atonement, 8/20
by Ian McEwan
9. The Alchemist, 9/30
by Paulo Coelho
10. The Gathering, 10/22
by Anne Enright
NONFICTION
1. Three Cups of Tea, 1/61
by Greg Mortenson
and David Oliver Relin
2. Eat, Pray, Love, 2/62
by Elizabeth Gilbert
3. The Audacity of Hope, 3/14
by Barack Obama
4. John Adams, 4/32
by David McCullough
5. Dreams From my Father, 5/89
by Barack Obama
6. Bringing Down the House, 6/59
by Ben Mezrich
7. 90 Minutes in Heaven, 7/75
by Don Piper
with Cecil Murphey
8. Marley and Me, 8/3
by John Grogan
9. Into the Wild, 9/149
by Jon Krakauer
10. The Innocent Man, 10/19
by John Grisham
ADVICE, HOW-TO
AND MISCELLANEOUS
1. A New Earth, 1/9
by Eckhart Tolle
2. The Power of Now, 2/24
by Eckhart Tolle
3. Skinny Bitch, 3/38
by Rory Freedman
and Kim Barnouin
4. How Doctors Think, 18/2
by Jerome Groopman
5. The Brain That Changes 19/4
Itself,
by Norman Doidge
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended March 29, 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.