The following were the bestselling titles at New England Booksellers
Association bookstores during the week ended Sunday, February 19, as
reported to Book Sense:
Hardcover Fiction
1. In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant (Random House, $23.95, 1400063817)
2. Cell by Stephen King (Scribner, $26.95, 0743292332)
3. The 5th Horseman by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.95, 0316159778)
4. The Lighthouse by P.D. James (Knopf, $25.95, 030726291X)
5. The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury (Dutton, $24.95, 0525949410)
6. Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Knopf, $16.95, 0679407286)
7. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95, 0385504209)
8. Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (Knopf, $24.95, 030726310X)
9. Sea Change by Robert B. Parker (Putnam, $24.95, 0399152679)
10. The Good Life by Jay McInerney (Knopf, $25, 0375411402)
11. The Sea by John Banville (Knopf, $23, 0307263118)
12. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
13. Saturday by Ian McEwan (Nan Talese, $26, 0385511809)
14. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Atlantic Monthly, $24, 0871139294)
15. The Trouble With Poetry by Billy Collins (Random House, $22.95, 037550382X)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Marley & Me by John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95, 0060817089
2. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
3. You're Wearing That? by Deborah Tannen (Random House, $24.95, 1400062586)
4. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
5. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $35, 0684824906)
6. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (Scribner, $26, 0743243773)
7. The Brothers Bulger by Howie Carr (Warner, $25.95, 0446576514)
8. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
9. Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter (S&S, $25, 0743284577)
10. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
11. Manhunt by James L. Swanson (Morrow, $26.95, 0060518499)
12. The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam (Hyperion, $24.95, 1401301541)
13. At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch (S&S, $35, 068485712X)
14. State of War by James Risen (Free Press, $26, 0743270665)
15. 1776 by David McCullough (S&S, $32, 0743226712)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Picador, $14, 031242440X)
2. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House, $13.95, 081297235X)
3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
4. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
5. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
6. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Regan Books, $15, 0060987103)
7. Close Range by Annie Proulx (Scribner, $14, 0684852225)
8. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
9. Runaway by Alice Munro (Vintage, $14.95, 1400077915)
10. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (Scribner, $9.95, 0743271327)
11. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
12. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454537)
13. Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454553)
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
15. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $16, 0743227441)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. Night by Elie Weisel (FSG, $9, 0374500010)
2. *A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
3. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Vintage, $14, 0679745580)
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14, 074324754X)
5. Collapse by Jared Diamond (Penguin, $17, 0143036556)
6. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Plume, $15, 0452287081)
7. Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson (Harvest, $15, 0156031442)
8. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
9. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (Random House, $14.95, 0812973011)
10. 365: No Repeats by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter, $19.95, 1400082544)
11. Smashed by Koren Zailckas (Penguin, $14, 0143036475)
12. The End of Faith by Sam Harris (Norton, $13.95, 0393327655)
13. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
14. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D. (Three Rivers, $13.95, 1400082315)
15. Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University, $17.95, 019518159X)
Mass Market
1. The Closers by Michael Connelly (Warner, $7.99, 0446616443)
2. Skeleton Man by Tony Hillerman (HarperTorch, $7.99, 006056346X)
3. The Broker by John Grisham (Dell, $7.99, 0440241588)
4. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
5. Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva (Signet, $7.99, 0451215737)
6. Hard Truth by Nevada Barr (Berkley, $7.99, 0425208419)
7. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (Avon, $7.99, 0061015733)
8. The Third Secret by Steve Berry (Ballantine, $7.99, 034547614X)
9. Whiteout by Ken Follett (Signet, $7.99, 0451215710)
10. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Vintage, $7.99, 1400096898)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick, $18.99, 0763625892)
2. Small Steps by Louis Sachar (Delacorte, $16.95, 0385733143)
3. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
4. Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser (HarperCollins, $15.99, 0060542098)
5. A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (children's movie tie-in edition) by C.S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0060765461)
7. Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow, $16.99, 0060092726)
8. Curious George by H.A. Rey (Houghton Mifflin, $6.95, 039515023X)
9. Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt (Golden, $9.99, 0307120007)
10. Duck & Goose by Tad Hills (Schwartz & Wade, $14.95, 037583611X)
11. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
12. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $7.99, 0439709105)
13. Dragonology by Ernest Drake, illustrated by Helen Ward and Douglas Carrel (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763623296)
14. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (movie tie-in edition) by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $6.99, 0553494791)
*ABA, NEBA and Book Sense acknowledge the controversy surrounding this title
due to statements made by its author and publisher.
Hardcover Fiction
1. In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant (Random House, $23.95, 1400063817)
2. Cell by Stephen King (Scribner, $26.95, 0743292332)
3. The 5th Horseman by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.95, 0316159778)
4. The Lighthouse by P.D. James (Knopf, $25.95, 030726291X)
5. The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury (Dutton, $24.95, 0525949410)
6. Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Knopf, $16.95, 0679407286)
7. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95, 0385504209)
8. Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (Knopf, $24.95, 030726310X)
9. Sea Change by Robert B. Parker (Putnam, $24.95, 0399152679)
10. The Good Life by Jay McInerney (Knopf, $25, 0375411402)
11. The Sea by John Banville (Knopf, $23, 0307263118)
12. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
13. Saturday by Ian McEwan (Nan Talese, $26, 0385511809)
14. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Atlantic Monthly, $24, 0871139294)
15. The Trouble With Poetry by Billy Collins (Random House, $22.95, 037550382X)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Marley & Me by John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95, 0060817089
2. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
3. You're Wearing That? by Deborah Tannen (Random House, $24.95, 1400062586)
4. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
5. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $35, 0684824906)
6. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (Scribner, $26, 0743243773)
7. The Brothers Bulger by Howie Carr (Warner, $25.95, 0446576514)
8. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
9. Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter (S&S, $25, 0743284577)
10. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
11. Manhunt by James L. Swanson (Morrow, $26.95, 0060518499)
12. The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam (Hyperion, $24.95, 1401301541)
13. At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch (S&S, $35, 068485712X)
14. State of War by James Risen (Free Press, $26, 0743270665)
15. 1776 by David McCullough (S&S, $32, 0743226712)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Picador, $14, 031242440X)
2. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House, $13.95, 081297235X)
3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
4. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
5. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
6. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Regan Books, $15, 0060987103)
7. Close Range by Annie Proulx (Scribner, $14, 0684852225)
8. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
9. Runaway by Alice Munro (Vintage, $14.95, 1400077915)
10. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (Scribner, $9.95, 0743271327)
11. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
12. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454537)
13. Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454553)
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
15. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $16, 0743227441)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. Night by Elie Weisel (FSG, $9, 0374500010)
2. *A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
3. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Vintage, $14, 0679745580)
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14, 074324754X)
5. Collapse by Jared Diamond (Penguin, $17, 0143036556)
6. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Plume, $15, 0452287081)
7. Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson (Harvest, $15, 0156031442)
8. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
9. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (Random House, $14.95, 0812973011)
10. 365: No Repeats by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter, $19.95, 1400082544)
11. Smashed by Koren Zailckas (Penguin, $14, 0143036475)
12. The End of Faith by Sam Harris (Norton, $13.95, 0393327655)
13. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
14. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D. (Three Rivers, $13.95, 1400082315)
15. Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University, $17.95, 019518159X)
Mass Market
1. The Closers by Michael Connelly (Warner, $7.99, 0446616443)
2. Skeleton Man by Tony Hillerman (HarperTorch, $7.99, 006056346X)
3. The Broker by John Grisham (Dell, $7.99, 0440241588)
4. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
5. Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva (Signet, $7.99, 0451215737)
6. Hard Truth by Nevada Barr (Berkley, $7.99, 0425208419)
7. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (Avon, $7.99, 0061015733)
8. The Third Secret by Steve Berry (Ballantine, $7.99, 034547614X)
9. Whiteout by Ken Follett (Signet, $7.99, 0451215710)
10. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Vintage, $7.99, 1400096898)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick, $18.99, 0763625892)
2. Small Steps by Louis Sachar (Delacorte, $16.95, 0385733143)
3. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
4. Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser (HarperCollins, $15.99, 0060542098)
5. A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (children's movie tie-in edition) by C.S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0060765461)
7. Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow, $16.99, 0060092726)
8. Curious George by H.A. Rey (Houghton Mifflin, $6.95, 039515023X)
9. Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt (Golden, $9.99, 0307120007)
10. Duck & Goose by Tad Hills (Schwartz & Wade, $14.95, 037583611X)
11. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
12. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $7.99, 0439709105)
13. Dragonology by Ernest Drake, illustrated by Helen Ward and Douglas Carrel (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763623296)
14. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (movie tie-in edition) by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $6.99, 0553494791)
*ABA, NEBA and Book Sense acknowledge the controversy surrounding this title
due to statements made by its author and publisher.