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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for April 17, 2008
from sales the week ending April 13, 2008
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| Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List | |
| 1. | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781565125605 An indie fave about a traveling circus comes to paperback. The 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Fiction Winner. | 1/53 |
| 2. | The Gathering Anne Enright, Black Cat, $14, 9780802170392 Enright's newest novel about a large Irish family gathering for a wake for one of their own. | 2/25 |
| 3. | Loving Frank - Debut Nancy Horan, Ballantine, $14, 9780345495006 Horan's fictionalized account of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney's love story is now available in paperback. | /1 |
| 4. | Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult, Washington Square, $15, 9780743496735 Picoult's novel, a Book Sense Bestseller in hardcover, is now available in paperback. | 5/10 |
| 5. | The Friday Night Knitting Club Kate Jacobs, Berkley, $14, 9780425219096 This March 2007 Book Sense Notable is now available in paperback. | 3/15 |
| 6. | The Road Cormac McCarthy, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307387899 A barren, post-apocalyptic landscape is the foreground, and background, for this Pulitzer Prize-winning Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book and Oprah Book Club choice. | 4/55 |
| 7. | The Good Husband of Zebra Drive Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $12.95, 9781400075720 The eighth installment in the popular No. 1 Ladies' Detective series is now available in paperback. | 7/5 |
| 8. | The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $16, 9780743227445 A novel of the luckier, lesser-known Boleyn sister. | 6/67 |
| 9. | The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $15, 9781594480003 A Book Sense Pick, now in paperback. A stunning, enlightening novel of friendship and Afghan culture and politics. | 8/205 |
| 10. | Peony in Love Lisa See, Random House, $14, 9780812975222 A romantic ghost story set in 17th-century China, from the author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. | 10/8 |
| 11. | Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400096275 Paris under the Germans, by an author interned at Auschwitz. A bestseller in hardcover too. | 9/53 |
| 12. | The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards, Penguin, $14, 9780143037149 A tragic snap-decision about a handicapped baby, played out among the affected. | /86 |
| 13. | Christine Falls - Debut Benjamin Black, Picador, $14, 9780312426323 For this engrossing mystery novel, Booker Prize-winner John Danville goes by the pen name Benjamin Black. | /1 |
| 14. | No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy, Vintage, $14, 9780375706677 A #1 Book Sense Pick in hardcover. "McCarthy has dropped a hurricane in our laps." -- Dave Chachere, Cody's Books, Berkeley, CA | 11/25 |
| 15. | What Is the What Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307385901 The fictionalized memoir of a survivor of the tragedy in the Sudan. | 14/27 |
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| 24. | Ten Days in the Hills Jane Smiley, Anchor, $14.95, 9781400033201 Smiley's observant novel of life in the Hollywood Hills is now available in paperback. |