{"id":378,"date":"2008-05-02T12:37:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T19:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/nyt-fiction-bestseller-list-05112008\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T00:00:00","slug":"nyt-fiction-bestseller-list-05112008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/02\/nyt-fiction-bestseller-list-05112008\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Fiction Bestseller List 05\/11\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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May 11, 2008<\/p>\n

Hardcover Fiction<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
This
\nWeek<\/font><\/td>\n		<\/td>\nLast
\nWeek<\/font><\/td>\n		Weeks
\nOn List<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/span><\/td>\nTHE WHOLE TRUTH<\/a><\/span>, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $26.99.) An intelligence agent and a journalist team up against a warmongering defense contractor.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/span><\/td>\nHOLD TIGHT<\/a><\/span>, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $26.95.) The aftermath of a high school kid\u2019s suicide rocks a New Jersey suburb.<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\nTHE MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS<\/a><\/span>, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $22.95.) The ninth novel in the No. 1 Ladies\u2019 Detective Agency series.<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/span><\/td>\nUNACCUSTOMED EARTH<\/a><\/span>, by Jhumpa Lahiri. (Knopf, $25.) Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children.<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/span><\/td>\nWHERE ARE YOU NOW?<\/a><\/span>, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared.<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nCERTAIN GIRLS<\/a><\/span>, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria, $26.95.) A girl discovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier.<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/span><\/td>\nQUICKSAND<\/a><\/span>, by Iris Johansen. (St. Martin\u2019s, $26.95.) The forensic sculptor Eve Duncan tracks a killer who claims to have murdered her daughter years earlier.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/span><\/td>\n* DEAD HEAT<\/a><\/span>, 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.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/span><\/td>\nTHE APPEAL<\/a><\/span>, 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.<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/span><\/td>\nSANTA FE DEAD<\/a><\/span>, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) A Santa Fe lawyer investigates his nefarious former wife.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/span><\/td>\nTHE THIRD CIRCLE<\/a><\/span>, 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).<\/td>\n<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/span><\/td>\nCOMPULSION<\/a><\/span>, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $27.) Several Los Angeles women are murdered, and the psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates.<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/span><\/td>\nBELONG TO ME<\/a><\/span>, by Marisa de los Santos. (Morrow, $24.95.) When she moves to the suburbs, a woman becomes enmeshed in complications and secrets.<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/span><\/td>\nBULLS ISLAND<\/a><\/span>, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (Morrow, $24.95.) An investment banker returns to the South Carolina island home she had left 20 years before.<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/span><\/td>\nA THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS<\/a><\/span>, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/span><\/td>\n*\u00a0CHANGE OF HEART<\/a><\/span>, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $26.95.) A prisoner on death row begins performing miracles.<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Also Selling<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/span><\/td>\nSMALL FAVOR<\/a><\/span>, by Jim Butcher (Roc)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/span><\/td>\nREMEMBER ME?<\/a><\/span>, by Sophie Kinsella (Dial)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/span><\/td>\nTHE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO<\/a><\/span>, by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/span><\/td>\nSO BRAVE, YOUNG AND HANDSOME<\/a><\/span>, by Leif Enger (Atlantic)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/span><\/td>\nWORLD WITHOUT END<\/a><\/span>, by Ken Follett (Dutton)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/span><\/td>\nWINTER STUDY<\/a><\/span>, by Nevada Barr (Putnam)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/span><\/td>\nTHE DAY I ATE WHATEVER WANTED<\/a><\/span>, by Elizabeth Berg (Random House)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/span><\/td>\nTHE HOUSE AT RIVERTON<\/a><\/span>, by Kate Morton (Atria)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/span><\/td>\n7TH HEAVEN<\/a><\/span>, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26<\/span><\/td>\nTHE THIRD ANGEL<\/a><\/span>, by Alice Hoffman (Shaye Areheart)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/span><\/td>\nZAPPED<\/a><\/span>, by Carol Higgins Clark (Scribner)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/span><\/td>\nA PRISONER OF BIRTH<\/a><\/span>, by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin’s)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/span><\/td>\nPEOPLE OF THE BOOK<\/a><\/span>, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/span><\/td>\nHONOR THYSELF<\/a><\/span>, by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31<\/span><\/td>\nLUSH LIFE<\/a><\/span>, by Richard Price (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32<\/span><\/td>\nGUILTY<\/a><\/span>, by Karen Robards (Putnam)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33<\/span><\/td>\nPLEASURE<\/span>, by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/span><\/td>\nLOST SOULS<\/a><\/span>, by Lisa Jackson (Kensington)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35<\/span><\/td>\nTHE GIRL WITH NO SHADOW<\/a><\/span>, by Joanne Harris (Morrow)\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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