THE NEW YORK TIMES Best Sellers Week of  May 4,  2008
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This
Week

FICTION

Weeks
On List

1 HOLD TIGHT, by Harlan Coben.  The aftermath of a high school kid’s suicide rocks a New Jersey suburb. 1
2 WHERE ARE YOU NOW?, by Mary Higgins Clark. A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared. 2
3 THE MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS, by Alexander McCall Smith. The ninth novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. 1
4 UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, by Jhumpa Lahiri. Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children. 3
5 CERTAIN GIRLS, by Jennifer Weiner. A girl discovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier. 2
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THE APPEAL, by John Grisham.  Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a company accused of dumping toxic waste.

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7 COMPULSION, by Jonathan Kellerman. Several Los Angeles women are murdered, and the psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates. 4
8 BELONG TO ME, by Marisa de los Santos. When she moves to the suburbs, a woman becomes enmeshed in complications and secrets. 3
9 SMALL FAVOR, by Jim Butcher.  Book 10 of the Dresden Files series about a wizard detective in Chicago. 3
10 CHANGE OF HEART, by Jodi Picoult. A prisoner on death row begins performing miracles. 7
11 BULLS ISLAND, by Dorothea Benton Frank. An investment banker returns to the South Carolina island home she had left 20 years before. 2
12 A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini. A friendship between two women in Afghanistan during 30 years of war. 48
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REMEMBER ME?, by Sophie Kinsella. A woman wakes up in a London hospital after an accident with no memory of the previous life-changing three years.

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14 THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, by Junot Díaz. A Dominican-American in New Jersey struggles to escape a family curse. 4
15 THE THIRD ANGEL, by Alice Hoffman. Interwoven stories of three women who face crossroads in their lives. 1

 

This
Week

NON-FICTION

Weeks

On List

1 BEAUTIFUL BOY, by David Sheff. A father struggles with his son’s meth addiction. 8
2 HOME, by Julie Andrews. A memoir of Andrews’s early years, from birth to being cast as Mary Poppins. 3
3 MISTAKEN IDENTITY, by Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb. The families of two girls whose identities were confused after a 2006 accident describe their experience. 4
4 LADIES OF LIBERTY, by Cokie Roberts. The influential women of early America. 2
5 ESCAPE, by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer. A former member of a fundamentalist polygamous sect describes her forced marriage to a much older man. 4
6 GIRLS LIKE US, by Sheila Weller. The lives and times of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon. 2
7 BAD MONEY, by Kevin Phillips.  How the financial sector has hijacked the American economy, aided by Washington’s ruinous faith in the efficiency of markets. 1
8 ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT, by Kurt Vonnegut. Twelve unpublished writings on war and peace by the novelist, who died in 2007. 3
9 IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, by Michael Pollan. A manifesto urges us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” 16
10 BRETT FAVRE: THE TRIBUTE, Articles about and pictures of the Green Bay Packers quarterback. 4
11 BONK, by Mary Roach. An amusing look at the science of sexual physiology. 2
12 TERROR AND CONSENT, by Philip Bobbitt. A historical, legal and strategic analysis of the “war on terror” questions whether democratic states can survive in the 21st century. 1
13 STANDING TALL, by C. Vivian Stringer with Laura Tucker. A memoir by the head coach of the Rutgers women’s basketball team. 2
14 LOSING IT, by Valerie Bertinelli. A memoir by the actress and former wife of Eddie Van Halen focuses on depression and her effort to lose weight. 8
15 PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, by Michio Kaku. A theoretical physicist who is one of the founders of string theory discusses the possibility of phenomena like force fields, teleportation and time travel. 5
 

 

 		  

 

  

                                                                                                                                

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