The Book Sense Category Bestseller List: Games

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Based on the last eight weeks of sales from over 350 independent bookstores across America.

Thanks to all the stores that report, the new expanded electronic reporting options, and the software our team here has built to sort and slice a ton of data according to BISAC categories, this is the latest of many subject category lists to run in BTW each week. These are intended as inventory checking tools for booksellers, alerts to publishers as to what's selling, and lists that the media can run.

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Games Bestsellers in Three Categories: Adult, Kids, and Calendars
The Top 25 for the Last Eight Weeks

For Adults:

1. Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players, by Stefan Fatsis (Penguin, $14, 0142002267)
2. Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Merriam-Webster, $6.50, 0877799156)
3. The New Comprehensive A - Z Crossword Dictionary (Revised) (Avon, $7.50, 0380724251)
4. Bringing Down the House, by Ben Mezrich (Free Press, $24, 0743225708)
5. The New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles #28, ed. by Will Shortz (St. Martin's Press, $9.95, 031230515X)
6. The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Omnibus #12, ed. by Will Shortz (St. Martin's Press, $11.95, 0312305117)
7. Crossword Puzzle Book #227, ed. by John Samson (Fireside, $9.95, 0743222679)
8. Hoyle's Rules of Games (Revised and Updated), by Albert H. Morehead (Signet, $6.99, 0451204840)
9. Crossword Puzzle Book #228, ed. by John Samson (Simon & Schuster, $9.95, 0743222687)
10. The Dell Crossword Dictionary (Revised), by Kathleen Williams and Wayne R. Rafferty (Dell, $6.99, 0440218713)
11. The New York Times Sunday Crossword Omnibus #6, ed. by Eugene T. Maleska (St. Martin's Press, $11.95, 0312289138)
12. Crossword Puzzle Dictionary, by Andrew Swanfeldt (HarperResource, $7.99, 0061000388)
13. The New York Times Crosswords for Your Coffee Break, ed. by Will Shortz (St. Martin's Press, $6.95, 0312288301)
14. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Merriam-Webster, $19.95, 0877792208)
15. The Washington Post Sunday Crossword Puzzles, ed. by William R. Mackaye (Random House, $9.95, 0812934547)

 

For Kids:

1. The Captain Underpants Extra-Crunchy Book O' Fun 'n Games, by Dav Pilkey (Blue Sky Press, $3.99, 0439267617)
2. Cat's Cradle: A Book of String Figures, by Anne Akers Johnson (Klutz Press, $9.95, 1878257536)
3. Cool Mad Libs (Price Stern Sloan, $3.99, 0843176601)
4. Brain Quest 2nd Grade (Workman, $10.95, 0761110224)
5. Brain Quest Grade 1 (Updated), by Brain Quest (Workman, $10.95, 0761110216)
6. Great Crosswords for Kids: An Official American Mensa Puzzle Book, by Trip Payne (Sterling, $5.95, 0806992891)
7. The Kids' Book of Chess/Book and Kids' Chess Set, by Harvey Kidder (Workman, $15.95, 0894807676)
8. Monster Mad Libs (Price Stern Sloan, $3.99, 0843100583)
9. Prime-Time Mad Libs (Price Stern Sloan, $3.99, 0843148861)
10. I Spy Treasure Hunt: A Book of Picture Riddles, by Jean Wick and Walter Marzollo (Scholastic, $13.95, 0439042445)

 

Calendars:

1. The Official Scrabble Calendar (Workman, $10.95, 076112683X)
2. The New York Times Crossword Puzzles Calendar (2003) (Pomegranate, $11.95, 0764919628)
3. The New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles Calendar (2003) (Pomegranate, $14.95, 0764918788)
4. The Mensa 365 Brain Puzzlers Calendar (2003) (Workman, $10.95, 0761125108)
5. I Spy Family Calendar (2003) (Workman, $11.95, 0761127399)

 

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