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Hardcover Fiction
Published: MARCH 9, 2008

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	THE APPEAL, by John Grisham.Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste.	1	4
2	STRANGERS IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. Lt. Eve Dallas investigates a businessman’s scandalous death; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.		1
3	7TH HEAVEN, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. In San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club hunt for an arsonist and a missing teenager.	2	3
4	LADY KILLER, by Lisa Scottoline. When her high-school rival disappears, possibly as a result of foul play, a Philadelphia lawyer must confront her past.		1
5	DUMA KEY, by Stephen King. A Minnesota contractor moves to Florida to recover from an injury and begins to create paintings with mysterious power.	3	5
6	A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini. A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.	4	40
7	WORLD WITHOUT END, by Ken Follett. Love and intrigue in Kingsbridge, the medieval English cathedral town at the center of Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth.”	6	20
8	THE KILLING GROUND, by Jack Higgins. A spy helps a man whose family has terrorist ties.	7	2
9	STRANGER IN PARADISE, by Robert B. Parker. Jesse Stone, the police chief of Paradise, Mass., must protect a hit man’s intended victim.	5	3
10	THE FIRST PATIENT, by Michael Palmer. When he becomes doctor to his old friend the president, a country physician discovers a conspiracy to kill him.		1
11	PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, by Geraldine Brooks. An expert unlocks the secrets of a rare manuscript.	8	8
12	PLUM LUCKY, by Janet Evanovich. Stephanie’s grandmother finds a bag of cash and goes gambling in Atlantic City, pursued by the money’s owner.	9	7
13	THE SENATOR’S WIFE, by Sue Miller. A woman lives with her husband’s persistent infidelity.	10	7
14	AN INCOMPLETE REVENGE, by Jacqueline Winspear. The psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs investigates vandalism and arson in a village in Kent in 1931.		1
15	THE GHOST WAR, by Alex Berenson. A C.I.A. agent in Afghanistan tries to learn who’s behind the resurgent Taliban and finds a global power struggle.	11	2
16	SIZZLE AND BURN, by Jayne Ann Krentz. A member of the Arcane Society, dedicated to paranormal research, helps a woman with psychic powers.	12	4

Paperback Fiction
Published: MARCH 9, 2008

This Week		Weeks On List
1	THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH, by Ken Follett. Murder, arson and lust surround the building of a cathedral.	15
2	THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, by Philippa Gregory. A tale of courtly intrigue starring Henry VIII and Mary and Anne Boleyn.	5
3	NINETEEN MINUTES, by Jodi Picoult. The aftermath of a high-school shooting reveals the fault lines in a small New Hampshire town.	3
4	WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. A young man — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus.	25
5	THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared.	25
6	ATONEMENT, by Ian McEwan. A chronicle of the disintegration of an English family’s idyllic life.	15
7	THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB, by Kate Jacobs. A group of women meet weekly at a New York City yarn shop.	8
8	THE 6TH TARGET, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate the disappearance of several children in San Francisco.	7
9	THE MEMORY KEEPER’S DAUGHTER, by Kim Edwards. A doctor’s decision to secretly send his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to an institution haunts everyone involved.	25
10	THE DOUBLE BIND, by Chris Bohjalian. A young woman who works at a homeless shelter struggles to understand the mysterious photographs taken by a recently deceased resident.	2
11	THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. A Spanish shepherd boy travels to Egypt in search of treasure.	25
12	THE ROAD, by Cormac McCarthy. A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.	25
13	NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, by Cormac McCarthy. Mayhem ensues in this reissued novel after a West Texas man stumbles upon $2 million in drug money — and decides to keep it.	16
14	THE GATHERING, by Anne Enright. A middle-aged woman struggles to come to terms with the suicide of her brother; the winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize.	17
15	BODY SURFING, by Anita Shreve. A woman takes a job as a tutor and becomes involved in a wealthy family’s tensions and rivalries.	6
16	LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, by Gabriel García Márquez. A Colombian poet’s love for a woman is tested.	21
17	SUITE FRANÇAISE, by Irène Némirovsky. Two novellas, which came to light more than 50 years after the author’s death at Auschwitz.	25
18	THOSE WHO SAVE US, by Jenna Blum. A professor of German history investigates what really went on in her mother’s life in Germany during World War II.	4
19	WORLD WAR Z, by Max Brooks. An “oral history” of an imagined Zombie War that nearly destroys civilization.	8
20	PLAIN TRUTH, by Jodi Picoult. An Amish teenager goes on trial, accused of having a baby, then smothering it to death.	5