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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for April 17, 2008
from sales the week ending April 13, 2008
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List | |
| 1. | Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri, Knopf, $25, 9780307265739 The latest collection of stories by the author of The Namesake is an April Book Sense Pick. | 1/2 |
| 2. | Lush Life Richard Price, FSG, $26, 9780374299255 Price's new novel focuses on the repercussions of a crime committed on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. | 3/6 |
| 3. | The Appeal John Grisham, Doubleday, $27.95, 9780385515047 Grisham returns with his first legal thriller in three years. | 2/11 |
| 4. | Where Are You Now? - Debut Mary Higgins Clark, S&S, $25.95, 9781416566380 A young law clerk searches for her long-missing brother in Clark's latest thriller. | /1 |
| 5. | A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $25.95, 9781594489501 Splendid characters and plot indeed, once again set in Afghanistan, by the author of the wondrous The Kite Runner. A June Book Sense Pick. | 4/47 |
| 6. | Certain Girls - Debut Jennifer Weiner, Atria, $26.95, 9780743294256 A sequel to Weiner's 2001 bestseller, Good in Bed. | /1 |
| 7. | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz, Riverhead, $24.95, 9781594489587 There's been major critical acclaim for this sci-fi journey from the Dominican Republic to the U.S. and back. | /10 |
| 8. | Red Bird: Poems Mary Oliver, Beacon, $23, 9780807068922 A new volume of poems by one of the nation's bestselling and most beloved poets. | 11/4 |
| 9. | Change of Heart Jodi Picoult, Atria, $26.95, 9780743496742 A convicted murderer wants to donate his heart to his victim's sister, who is in need of a transplant. | 5/6 |
| 10. | Winter Study Nevada Barr, Putnam, $24.95, 9780399154584 Park Ranger Anna Pigeon investigates some very strange occurances on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. | 10/2 |
| 11. | People of the Book Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $25.95, 9780670018215 The sweeping new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March. A January 2008 Book Sense Pick. | 7/15 |
| 12. | World Without End Ken Follett, Dutton, $35, 9780525950073 Follett brings us back to Kingsbridge, the setting of his bestselling (and Oprah Pick) Pillars of the Earth. | 12/27 |
| 13. | Our Story Begins Tobias Wolff, Knopf, $26.95, 9781400044597 Wolff's new collection of short stories is an April Book Sense Notable title. | 6/3 |
| 14. | The Third Angel - Debut Alice Hoffman, Shaye Areheart, $25, 9780307393852 Hoffman's brilliant new novel is an April Book Sense Notable title. | /1 |
| 15. | A Prisoner of Birth Jeffrey Archer, St. Martin's, $27.95, 9780312379292 A convict framed for murder escapes prison to clear his name in Archer's homage to The Count of Monte Cristo. | /5 |
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| 17. | Girls in Trucks Katie Crouch, Little Brown, $21.99, 9780316002110 Crouch's debut novel about a Southern debutante is the #1 Book Sense Pick for April. |