Best-selling books
Sun., Jan. 23, 2005
Fiction
1. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
2. “The Five People You Meet in
Heaven”
Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)
3. “Chainfire”
Terry Goodkind (Tor/Tom Doherty, $29.95)
4. “State of Fear”
Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, $27.95)
5. “By Order of the President”
W. E. B. Griffin (Putnam, $26.95)
6. “Unexpected Blessings”
Barbara Taylor Bradford (St. Martin’s, $24.95)
7. “Night Fall”
Nelson DeMille (Warner, $26.95)
8. “Black Wind”
Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Putnam, $27.95)
9. “Entombed”
Linda Fairstein (Scribner, $26)
Nonfiction
1. “Witness”
Amber Frey (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $25.95)
2. “America (The Book)”
Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum (Warner, $24.95)
3. “Collapse”
Jared Diamond (Viking, $29.95)
4. “His Excellency”
Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf, $26.95)
5. “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”
Lynne Truss (Gotham, $17.50)
6. “Chronicles: Volume One”
Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster, $24)
7. “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”
George Carlin (Hyperion, $23.95)
8. “Faithful”
Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King (Scribner, $26)
9. “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”
John Perkins (Berrett-Koehler, $24.95)
Paperback fiction
1. “The Last Juror”
John Grisham (Dell, $7.99)
2. “3rd Degree”
James Patterson and Andrew Gross (Warner, $7.99)
3. “The Calhouns: Catherine, Amanda and Lilah”
Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)
4. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
5. “To Die For”
Linda Howard (Ballantine, $7.99)
6. “Dance With Me”
Luanne Rice (Bantam, $7.50)
7. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
8. “Reunion”
Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)
9. “Crown Jewel”
Fern Michaels (Pocket, $7.99)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
2. “Kiss Me, Kill Me”
Ann Rule (Pocket Star, $7.99)
3. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)
4. “Dreams From My Father”
Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $13.95)
5. “Tuesdays With Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)
6 . “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
7. “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
Jared Diamond (Norton, $14.95)
8. “Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress”
Susan Jane Gilman (Warner, $12.95)
9. “Me Talk Pretty One Day”
David Sedaris (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
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