{"id":185,"date":"2008-03-22T11:21:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T18:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/03\/new-york-times-fiction-bestsellers-march-30-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T12:55:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T19:55:32","slug":"new-york-times-fiction-bestsellers-march-30-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/22\/new-york-times-fiction-bestsellers-march-30-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Fiction Bestsellers  March 30, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/misc\/nytlogo153x23.gif\" alt=\"The New York Times\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"23\" hspace=\"55\" width=\"153\" \/><em>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/30\/books\/bestseller\/0330besthardfiction.html?8bu&amp;emc=bu\" title=\"click to view NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\">March 30, 2008<\/p>\n<h1><nyt_headline version=\"1.0\" type=\" \"> Hardcover Fiction <\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n<p><nyt_byline version=\"1.0\" type=\" \"> <\/nyt_byline>    <nyt_text> <\/nyt_text>   \t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/bestsellers\/nytimes\/hrdfic.html?affiliateID=NYT\"><\/a><!--END HEADER--><\/p>\n<table id=\"bestSellers\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\" width=\"28\"><font size=\"-1\">This<br \/>\nWeek<\/font><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"middle\" width=\"300\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><font size=\"-1\">Last<br \/>\nWeek<\/font><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><font size=\"-1\">Weeks<br \/>\nOn List<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">1<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">CHANGE OF HEART, by Jodi Picoult.<\/a> (Atria, $26.95.) A prisoner on death row begins performing miracles.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">2<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span class=\"bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/28\/books\/28maslin.html\">THE APPEAL<\/a><\/span>, <a type=\"amzn\">by John Grisham<\/a>. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">3<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">REMEMBER ME?, by Sophie Kinsella.<\/a> (Dial, $25.) A woman wakes up in a London hospital after an auto accident with no memory of the previous life-changing three years.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">3<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">4<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">7TH HEAVEN, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.<\/a> (Little, Brown, $27.99.) In San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women\u2019s Murder Club hunt for an arsonist.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">4<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">5<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">KILLER HEAT, by Linda Fairstein.<\/a> (Doubleday, $26.) One August, Alexandra Cooper, a Manhattan assistant district attorney, tracks a serial killer.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">6<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">A PRISONER OF BIRTH, by Jeffrey Archer.<\/a> (St. Martin\u2019s, $27.95.) A poor Londoner, framed for murder by four Cambridge friends, escapes from prison and exacts revenge.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">7<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">7<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span class=\"bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/16\/books\/review\/Kirn-t.html\">LUSH LIFE<\/a><\/span>, <a type=\"amzn\">by Richard Price<\/a>. (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, $26.) An aspiring writer becomes a suspect in a friend\u2019s murder on the Lower East Side.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">6<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">8<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span class=\"bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/13\/books\/13masl.html\">CHRIST THE LORD: THE ROAD TO CANA<\/a><\/span>, by <a type=\"amzn\">Anne Rice<\/a>. (Knopf, $25.95.) In the second book of Rice\u2019s life of Christ, Jesus embraces his prophetic destiny.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">9<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">9<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">STRANGERS IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. (Putnam, $25.95.) Lt. Eve Dallas investigates a businessman\u2019s scandalous death; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">8<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">10<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span class=\"bold\">* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/29\/books\/29kaku.html\">A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS<\/a><\/span>, by <a type=\"amzn\">Khaled Hosseini<\/a>. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">11<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">11<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">HONOR THYSELF, by Danielle Steel.<\/a> (Delacorte, $27.) A 50-year-old actress injured in a terrorist attack in Paris must rebuild her life.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">5<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">12<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\"><span class=\"bold\">WORLD WITHOUT END<\/span>, by Ken Follett.<\/a> (Dutton, $35.) Love and intrigue in Kingsbridge, the medieval English cathedral town at the center of Follett\u2019s \u201cPillars of the Earth.\u201d<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">15<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">13<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">THE OUTLAW DEMON WAILS, by Kim Harrison.<\/a> (Eos, $24.95.) A witch who is also a bounty hunter must enter the demonic realm; the sixth book in the Hollows series.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">10<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">14<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span class=\"bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/02\/books\/review\/Campbell-t.html\">DUMA KEY<\/a><\/span>, by <a type=\"amzn\">Stephen King<\/a>. (Scribner, $28.) A Florida contractor begins to create paintings with mysterious power.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">13<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">15<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">LADY KILLER, by Lisa Scottoline.<\/a> (Harper, $25.95.) When her high-school rival disappears, possibly as a result of foul play, a Philadelphia lawyer must confront her past.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">12<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">16<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">ANOTHER THING TO FALL, by Laura Lippman.<\/a> (Morrow, $24.95.) A Baltimore private investigator becomes the bodyguard of a difficult star on the set of a TV series.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"BestSellers-heading\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Also Selling<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">17<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">BETRAYAL, by John Lescroart<\/a> (Dutton)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">18<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span class=\"bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/20\/books\/review\/Fugard-t.html\">PEOPLE OF THE BOOK<\/a><\/span>, by <a type=\"amzn\">Geraldine Brooks<\/a> (Viking)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">19<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">THE FIRST PATIENT, by Michael Palmer<\/a> (St. Martin&#8217;s)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">20<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">DEEP DISH, by Mary Kay Andrews<\/a> (Harper)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">21<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">THE KILLING GROUND, by Jack Higgins<\/a> (Putnam)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">22<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">DEAD TIME, by Stephen White<\/a> (Dutton)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">23<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span class=\"bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/13\/books\/review\/Warner-t.html\">THE SENATOR&#8217;S WIFE<\/a><\/span>, by <a type=\"amzn\" category=\"books\">Sue Miller<\/a> (Knopf)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">24<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">THE ANCIENT, by R. A. Salvatore<\/a> (Tor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">25<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">STRANGER IN PARADISE, by Robert B. Parker<\/a> (Putnam)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">26<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">CARROT CAKE MURDER, by Joanne Fluke<\/a> (Kensington)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">27<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">FIREFLY LANE, by Kristin Hannah<\/a> (St. Martin&#8217;s)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">28<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">BLIND FALL, by Christopher Rice<\/a> (Scribner)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">29<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">CHARM!, by Kendall Hart<\/a> (Hyperion)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">30<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">FRIEND OF THE DEVIL, by Peter Robinson<\/a> (Morrow)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">31<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">PLUM LUCKY, by Janet Evanovich<\/a> (St. Martin&#8217;s)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">32<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">A STRANGER&#8217;S GAME, by Joan Johnston<\/a> (Pocket)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">33<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">THE GHOST WAR, by Alex Berenson<\/a> (Putnam)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">34<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">THE SILVER SWAN, by Benjamin Black<\/a> (Henry Holt)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><span class=\"bold\">35<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a type=\"amzn\">SUCCULENT: CHOCOLATE FLAVA II, edited by Zane<\/a> (Atria)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the New York Times March 30, 2008 Hardcover Fiction This Week &nbsp; Last Week Weeks On List 1 CHANGE OF HEART, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $26.95.) A prisoner on death row begins performing miracles. 1 2 2 THE APPEAL, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}