AP News, May 24th, 2007
WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS
FICTION
1. "The 6th Target" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little Brown and Company)
2. "Bad Luck and Trouble" by Lee Child (Delacorte)
3. "Invisible Prey" by John Sandford (Putnam)
4. "Simple Genius" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
5. "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)
6. "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
7. "The Children of Hurin" by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin)
8. "Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th" by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen (St. Martin's Press)
9. "Rant: An Oral Biography Of Buster Casey" by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)
10. "The Woods" by Harlan Coben (Dutton Adult)
11. "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult (Atria)
12. "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
13. "Body Surfing" by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown and Company)
14. "I Heard That Song Before" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)
15. "Quest" by Wilbur Smith (St. Martin's Press)
NONFICTION
1. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words)
2. "The Dangerous Book for Boys" by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden (Collins)
3. "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve)
4. "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
5. "The Exceptional Presenter: A Proven Formula to Open Up and Own the Room" by Timothy J. Koegel (Greenleaf Book Group Press)
6. "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes" by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein (Harry N. Abrams)
7. "Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989" by Michael R. Beschloss (Simon & Schuster)
8. "Jesus of Nazareth" by Pope Benedict XVI (Doubleday)
9. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
10. "Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits" by T.D. Jakes (Atria)
11. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp (HarperCollins)
12. "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't" by Jim Collins (Collins)
13. "At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA" by George Tenet (HarperCollins)
14. "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" by Lee Iacocca (Scribner)
15. "Tales From Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major" by John Feinstein (Little, Brown)
The Wall Street Journal's list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books during the week ended last Saturday at more than 2,500 Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton, Bookland, Books-a-Million, Books & Co., Bookstar, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Coles, Coopersmith, Doubleday, Scribners and Waldenbooks stores, as well as sales from online retailers Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.
USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS
Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
1. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words) (NF-H)
2. "The 6th Target" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little Brown and Company) (F-H)
3. "The Husband" by Dean Koontz (Bantam) (F-P)
4. "Invisible Prey" by John Sandford (Putnam)(F-H)
5. "Bad Luck and Trouble" by Lee Child (Delacorte) (F-H)
6. "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers) (F-H)
7. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin) (F-P)
8. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage) (F-P)
9. "The Dangerous Book for Boys" by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden (Collins) (NF-H)
10. "Susannah's Garden" by Debbie Macomber (Mira) (F-P)
11. "Simple Genius" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) (F-H)
12. "The Children of Hurin" by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) (F-H)
13. "The 5th Horseman" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Warner Books) (F-P)
14. "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards (Penguin) (F-P)
15. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) (NF-P)
16. "The Final Move Beyond Iraq: The Final Solution While the World Sleeps" by Mike Evans, (Frontline) (NF-P)
17. "Cover of Night" by Linda Howard (Ballantine Books) (F-P)
18. "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) (NF-H)
19. "Two Little Girls in Blue" by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket)(F-P)
20. "Dead Watch" by John Sandford (Berkley) (F-P)
21. "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve) (NF-H)
22. "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)(F-H)
23. "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books) (NF-P)
24. "Jesus of Nazareth" by Pope Benedict XVI (Doubleday) (NF-H)
25. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) (F-P)
26. "Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits" by T.D. Jakes (Atria) (NF-H)
27. "Born in Death" by J.D. Robb (Berkley) (F-P)
28. "The Glass Castle: A Memoir" by Jeannette Walls (Scribner) (NF-P)
29. "90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life" by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell) (NF-P)
30. "The Witness" by Sandra Brown (Warner Books) (F-P)
31. "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky (Vintage) (F-P)
32. "The Wrong Hostage" by Elizabeth Lowell (Avon) (F-P)
33. "Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th" by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen (St. Martin's Press)
34. "Baby Proof" by Emily Giffin (St. Martin's Griffin) (F-P)
35. "The Book of Fate" by Brad Meltzer (Warner) (F-P)
36. "Rant: An Oral Biography Of Buster Casey" by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday) (F-H)
37. "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" by T.T. Sutherland (Disney Press) (F-P)
38. "The Exceptional Presenter: A Proven Formula to Open Up and Own the Room" by Timothy J. Koegel (Greenleaf Book Group Press) (NF-H)
39. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (NF-H)
40. "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle (Square Fish) (F-P)
41. "At Risk" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley) (F-P)
42. "Captive of My Desires" by Johanna Lindsey (Pocket) (F-P)
43. "Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989" by Michael R. Beschloss (Simon & Schuster) (NF-H)
44. "Eldest: Inheritance, Book II" by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers) (F-P)
45. "Gone" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine Books) (F-P)
46. "The Pilgrims of Rayne" by D.J. MacHale (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing) (F-H)
47. "The Woods" by Harlan Coben (Dutton Adult) (F-H)
48. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp (HarperCollins) (NF-H)
49. "At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA" by George Tenet (HarperCollins) (NF-H)
50. "Hot Stuff" by Janet Evanovich, Leanne Banks (St. Martin's Paperbacks) (F-P)
Reporting stores include: Amazon.com, B. Dalton Bookseller, Barnes & Noble.com, Barnes & Noble Inc., Books-A-Million and Bookland, Booksamillion.com, Borders Books & Music, Bookstar, Bookstop, Brentano's, Davis Kidd Booksellers in Nashville, Jackson, Memphis, Tenn., Doubleday Book Shops, Hudson Booksellers, Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Lexington, Ky.; Cincinnati, Cleveland), Powell's Books (Portland, Ore.), Powells.com, R.J. Julia Booksellers (Madison, Conn.), Schuler Books & Music (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Target, Tattered Cover Book Store (Denver), Waldenbooks.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "The 6th Target" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little Brown and Company)
2."Bad Luck and Trouble" by Lee Child (Delacorte)
3. "Invisible Prey" by John Sandford (Putnam)
4. "Simple Genius" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
5. "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
6. "The Children of Hurin" by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 7. "Rant: An Oral Biography Of Buster Casey" by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)
8. "The Woods" by Harlan Coben (Dutton Adult)
9. "Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th" by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen (St. Martin's Press)
10. "I Heard That Song Before" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)
11. "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult (Atria)
12. "Body Surfing" by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown and Company)
13. "The Good Husband of Zebra Drive" by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon)
14. "Quest" by Wilbur Smith (St. Martin's Press)
15. "Falling Man" by Don DeLillo (Scribner)
NONFICTION/GENERAL
1. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words)
2. "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
3. "The Dangerous Book for Boys" by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden (Collins)
4. "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve)
5. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp (HarperCollins)
6. "Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits" by T.D. Jakes (Atria)
7. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
8. "At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA" by George Tenet (HarperCollins)
9. "Jesus of Nazareth" by Pope Benedict XVI (Doubleday)
10. "Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989" by Michael R. Beschloss (Simon & Schuster)
11. "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" by Lee Iacocca (Scribner)
12. "The Exceptional Presenter: A Proven Formula to Open Up and Own the Room" by Timothy J. Koegel (Greenleaf Book Group Press)
13. "Tales From Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major" by John Feinstein (Little, Brown)
14. "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes" by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein (Harry N. Abrams)
15. "Rickles' Book" by Don Rickles with David Ritz (Simon & Schuster)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "The Husband" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)
2. "Susannah's Garden" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
3. "Dead Watch" by John Sandford (Berkley)
4. "Cover of Night" by Linda Howard (Ballantine Books)
5. "Two Little Girls in Blue" by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket)
6. "Born in Death" by J.D. Robb (Berkley)
7. "The Witness" by Sandra Brown (Warner Books)
8. "The Book of Fate" by Brad Meltzer (Warner)
9. "At Risk" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)
10. "Gone" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine Books)
11. "Hot Stuff" by Janet Evanovich, Leanne Banks (St. Martin's Paperbacks)
12. "Short Straw" by Stuart Woods (Signet)
13. "The Hard Way" by Lee Child (Dell)
14. "Don't Look Down" by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (St. Martin's)
15. "The Wrong Hostage" by Elizabeth Lowell (Avon)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
2. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage)
3. "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards (Penguin)
4. "The 5th Horseman" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Warner Books)
5. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
6. "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky (Vintage)
7. "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books)
8. "The Glass Castle: A Memoir" by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)
9. "90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life" by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell)
10. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
11. "Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War" by Nathaniel Philbrick (Penguin)
12. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho (Harper)
13. "Baby Proof" by Emily Giffin (St. Martin's Griffin)
14. "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown/Back Bay)
15. "The Measure of a Man" by Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco)
