Sunday, April 26, 2015

Best Sellers

May 24, 2009

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Inside the List

Elizabeth Edwards’s “Resilience” enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 3, trailed by a cloud of publicity that could choke a horse.

Editors’ Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.

Browse Past Lists

This Week    Last Week Hardcover Fiction Weeks
on List
1 DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther. 1
2 1 THE 8TH CONFESSION, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women''s Murder Club investigate a pair of killings. 2
3 PYGMY, by Chuck Palahniuk. (Doubleday, $24.95.) Terrorists from a totalitarian country enter the Midwest disguised as exchange students in this satire. 1
4 3 FIRST FAMILY, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.) Former Secret Service agents, now P.I.’s, search for a child abducted from a party at Camp David. 3
5 5 TEA TIME FOR THE TRADITIONALLY BUILT, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $23.95.) The 10th novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. 3
6 6 JUST TAKE MY HEART, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) An assistant prosecutor who has had a heart transplant discovers that her life is at risk. 5
7 * 4 SUMMER ON BLOSSOM STREET, by Debbie Macomber. (Mira, $24.95.) More stories of life and love from a Seattle knitting class. 2
8 8 THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won’t surrender. 52
9 * 2 LOVER AVENGED, by J.R. Ward. (New American Library, $24.95.) A vampire ally hides his mixed blood; Book 7 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. 2
10 THE LEGEND OF SIGURD AND GUDRUN, by J. R. R. Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26.) The previously unpublished adventures of a medieval Norse hero, written before “The Hobbit” and “Lord of the Rings.” 1
11 BRIMSTONE, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $25.95.) In the third novel in the Appaloosa trilogy, two lawmen protect a woman one of them loves. 1
12 11 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi. 7
13 * 7 LOITERING WITH INTENT, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, takes a case in Key West. 3
14 THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) An idealistic law-school graduate is forced to take a job at a large, brutalizing law firm. 14
15 16 HANDLE WITH CARE, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $27.95.) A woman whose daughter has a dangerous birth defect must decide whether to sue her obstetrician, an old friend. 10

Also Selling

  1. LOOK AGAIN, by Lisa Scottoline (St. Martin’s)
  2. BROOKLYN, by Colm Tóibín (Scribner)
  3. THE PERFECT POISON, by Amanda Quick (Putnam)
  4. HOME SAFE, by Elizabeth Berg (Random House)
  5. TURN COAT, by Jim Butcher (Roc)
  6. LONG LOST, by Harlan Coben (Dutton)
  7. FATALLY FLAKY, by Diane Mott Davidson (William Morrow)
  8. DEADLOCK, by Iris Johansen (St. Martin’s)
  9. FACE OF BETRAYAL, by Lis Wiehl with April Henry (Thomas Nelson)
  10. THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN, by Kate Morton (Atria)
  11. HEART AND SOUL, by Maeve Binchy (Knopf)
  12. MR. AND MISS ANONYMOUS, by Fern Michaels (Kensington)
  13. PRAYERS FOR SALE, by Sandra Dallas (St. Martin’s)
  14. THE LANGUAGE OF BEES, by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
  15. THE SELECTED WORKS OF T.S. SPIVET, by Reif Larsen (Penguin Press)
  16. SAG HARBOR, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
  17. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial)
  18. A RELIABLE WIFE, by Robert Goolrick (Algonquin)
  19. THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
  20. DARK PLACES, by Gillian Flynn (Shaye Areheart)
About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the May 24, 2009 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending May 9, 2009.

An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

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