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Bestseller List for May 12, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending May 8, 2011
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Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | She Walks in Beauty Caroline Kennedy (Ed.), Hyperion, $24.99, 9781401341459 Caroline Kennedy has marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay tribute to the human experience. |
4/5 |
2. | Dead Reckoning- Debut Charlaine Harris, Ace, $27.95, 9780441020317 The new Sookie Stackhouse novel by the author Dead in the Family. |
/1 |
3. | The Tiger's Wife Tea Obreht, Random House, $25, 9780385343831 Debut author Obreht tells a tale of myth and legend in this #1 Indie Next Great Read for March 2011. |
1/9 |
4. | Caleb's Crossing- Debut Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $26.95, 9780670021048 The evocative new novel by the author of People of the Book is a May Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
5. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309 This new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway is a March Indie Next List Great Read. |
2/11 |
6. | The Land of Painted Caves Jean M. Auel, Crown, $30, 9780517580516 The sixth and final installment in Auel's popular Earth's Children series. |
3/6 |
7. | Sixkill- Debut Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399157264 An extraordinary new Spenser novel by the author of Painted Ladies. |
/1 |
8. | 10th Anniversary- Debut James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316036269 The latest installment in the bestselling Women's Murder Club series. |
/1 |
9. | The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307378392 The new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novel following The Double Comfort Safari Club. |
9/7 |
10. | The Fifth Witness Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069359 Connelly's latest legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller. |
6/5 |
11. | The Sixth Man David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446573108 Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in Baldacci's latest bestselling thriller. |
7/3 |
12. | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269997 The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy. |
8/50 |
13. | Horoscopes for the Dead Billy Collins, Random House, $24, 9781400064922 A new collection of poems by the former U.S. Poet Laureate and bestselling author of Ballistics. |
10/5 |
14. | The Pale King David Foster Wallace, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316074230 A deeply compelling and satisfying novel that remained unfinished at the time of Wallace's death in 2008. |
5/6 |
15. | The Tragedy of Arthur Arthur Phillips, Random House, $26, 9781400066476 A virtuosic new novel by the internationally bestselling author of The Song Is You. |
12/2 |
ON THE RISE | ||
16. | Doc Mary Doria Russell, Random House, $26, 9781400068043 Russell's vibrant novel about Doc Holliday is a May Indie Next List Great Read. |
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