from the New York Times

May 11, 2008

Hardcover Fiction

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On List
1 THE WHOLE TRUTH, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $26.99.) An intelligence agent and a journalist team up against a warmongering defense contractor. 1
2 HOLD TIGHT, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $26.95.) The aftermath of a high school kid’s suicide rocks a New Jersey suburb. 1 2
3 THE MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $22.95.) The ninth novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. 3 2
4 UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, by Jhumpa Lahiri. (Knopf, $25.) Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children. 4 4
5 WHERE ARE YOU NOW?, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared. 2 3
6 CERTAIN GIRLS, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria, $26.95.) A girl discovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier. 5 3
7 QUICKSAND, by Iris Johansen. (St. Martin’s, $26.95.) The forensic sculptor Eve Duncan tracks a killer who claims to have murdered her daughter years earlier. 1
8 * DEAD HEAT, by Joel C. Rosenberg. (Tyndale, $24.99.) With the world on the brink of war, terrorists plot to assassinate a candidate in a closely fought presidential election. 5
9 THE APPEAL, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste. 6 13
10 SANTA FE DEAD, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) A Santa Fe lawyer investigates his nefarious former wife. 1
11 THE THIRD CIRCLE, by Amanda Quick. (Putnam, $24.95.) In Victorian England, a crystal reader joins forces with a hypnotist to steal a mysterious stone (an Arcane Society novel). 1
12 COMPULSION, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $27.) Several Los Angeles women are murdered, and the psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates. 7 5
13 BELONG TO ME, by Marisa de los Santos. (Morrow, $24.95.) When she moves to the suburbs, a woman becomes enmeshed in complications and secrets. 8 4
14 BULLS ISLAND, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (Morrow, $24.95.) An investment banker returns to the South Carolina island home she had left 20 years before. 11 3
15 A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war. 12 49
16 CHANGE OF HEART, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $26.95.) A prisoner on death row begins performing miracles. 10 8
Also Selling
17 SMALL FAVOR, by Jim Butcher (Roc)
18 REMEMBER ME?, by Sophie Kinsella (Dial)
19 THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)
20 SO BRAVE, YOUNG AND HANDSOME, by Leif Enger (Atlantic)
21 WORLD WITHOUT END, by Ken Follett (Dutton)
22 WINTER STUDY, by Nevada Barr (Putnam)
23 THE DAY I ATE WHATEVER WANTED, by Elizabeth Berg (Random House)
24 THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON, by Kate Morton (Atria)
25 7TH HEAVEN, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)
26 THE THIRD ANGEL, by Alice Hoffman (Shaye Areheart)
27 ZAPPED, by Carol Higgins Clark (Scribner)
28 A PRISONER OF BIRTH, by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin’s)
29 PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
30 HONOR THYSELF, by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
31 LUSH LIFE, by Richard Price (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
32 GUILTY, by Karen Robards (Putnam)
33 PLEASURE, by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton)
34 LOST SOULS, by Lisa Jackson (Kensington)
35 THE GIRL WITH NO SHADOW, by Joanne Harris (Morrow) 
 

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