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Best Sellers

May 06, 2012

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Inside the List

You have to look closely for the dark edges in the songwriter Carole King’s humble, earnest memoir, which is at No. 11 in its second week on the list.

Editors’ Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.

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This Week    Last Week Hardcover Fiction Weeks
on List
1 THE INNOCENT, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.) A hitman who has become a target of the government rescues a teenage girl whose parents have been murdered and who may be at the center of a dangerous conspiracy. 1
2 THE WITNESS, by Nora Roberts. (Putnam, $27.95.) A programmer hides from the Russian mob in the Ozarks. 1
3 1 CALICO JOE, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $24.95.) A pitcher beans a promising rookie, ending both their careers; years later, the pitcher’s son brings them together. 2
4 UNNATURAL ACTS, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $26.95.) The New York lawyer Stone Barrington becomes involved in the family problems of a billionaire hedge fund manager. 1
5 2 GUILTY WIVES, by James Patterson and David Ellis. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Four friends in Monte Carlo for a luxurious girls’ vacation find themselves in prison, accused of a crime. 4
6 3 THE LOST YEARS, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $26.99.) A biblical scholar who made an amazing discovery is murdered. 3
7 WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU, by Iris Johansen. (St. Martin's, $27.99.) A Hong Kong woman who works for the C.I.A. searches for a deadly formula while she fights to save her son. 1
8 4 COME HOME, by Lisa Scottoline. (St. Martin’s, $27.99.) A woman joins with her estranged former stepdaughter to investigate the possible murder of her ex-husband. 2
9 * 6 SACRÉ BLEU, by Christopher Moore. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) Vincent van Gogh’s friends in the 19th-century Parisian art world investigate his suicide. 3
10 5 THE SHOEMAKER’S WIFE, by Adriana Trigiani. (Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99.) Childhood sweethearts in turn-of-the-20th-century Italy meet again in America. 3
11 9 THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $24.95.) The 13th novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. 3
12 7 BETRAYAL, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte Press, $28.) A happy and successful Hollywood director discovers that someone is embezzling large sums of her money. 4
13 * 8 STAY CLOSE, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $27.95.) A disappearance in Atlantic City brings together three frustrated people whose lives were once connected. 5
14 10 A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $35.) After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire." 38
15 12 THE LIFEBOAT, by Charlotte Rogan. (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown, $24.99.) A power struggle in the lifeboat carrying survivors of an ocean liner’s mid-Atlantic explosion in 1914. 2
16 * 11 THE BEGINNER’S GOODBYE, by Anne Tyler. (Knopf, $24.95.) A middle-aged man mourning his wife’s death is comforted by her unexpected appearances. 3

Also Selling

  1. PRAGUE FATALE, by Philip Kerr (Marian Wood/Putnam)
  2. THE PARIS WIFE, by Paula McLain (Ballantine)
  3. DEFENDING JACOB, by William Landay (Delacorte)
  4. LONE WOLF, by Jodi Picoult (Emily Bestler/Atria)
  5. AN ACCIDENTAL AFFAIR, by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton)
  6. LOVER REBORN, by J. R. Ward (New American Library)
  7. 11/22/63, by Stephen King (Scribner)
  8. KILL SHOT, by Vince Flynn (Emily Bestler/Atria)
  9. GYPPED, by Carol Higgins Clark (Scribner)
  10. ELEGY FOR EDDIE, by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper/HarperCollins)
  11. UNHOLY NIGHT, by Seth Grahame-Smith (Grand Central)
  12. BEASTLY THINGS, by Donna Leon (Atlantic Monthly)
  13. THE COVE, by Ron Rash (Ecco/HarperCollins)
  14. WAITING FOR SUNRISE, by William Boyd (Harper)
  15. SIDNEY SHELDON'S ANGEL OF THE DARK, by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow)
  16. DORCHESTER TERRACE, by Anne Perry (Ballantine)
  17. A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME, by Wiley Cash (Morrow)
  18. THE SENSE OF AN ENDING, by Julian Barnes (Knopf)
  19. LETTER FROM A STRANGER, by Barbara Taylor Bradford (St. Martin's)
About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the May 6, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending April 21, 2012.

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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