BEST-SELLERS
BEAUTIFUL DEBUTS
A 45-year-old abandoned wife and a 54-year-old doctor in Rodanthe, N.C., led new books in a charge to the top of this week’s best-seller chart. Nicholas Sparks’ Nights in Rodanthe debuted at No. 1, knocking The Lovely Bones off its cushy summer perch, but it was only one of six (six!) upstart new fictions to premiere in the top 10. Anna Quindlen’s Blessings fared next best at No. 3.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST 1 NIGHTS IN RODANTHE Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $22.95 1 2 THE LOVELY BONES Alice Sebold, Little, Brown, $21.95 13 3 BLESSINGS Anna Quindlen, Random House, $24.95 1 4 RED RABBIT Tom Clancy, Putnam, $28.95 7 5 KILLJOY Julie Garwood, Ballantine, $25.95 1 6 LULLABY Chuck Palahniuk, Doubleday, $24.95 1 7 DUNE: THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Tor, $27.95 1 8 SHRINK RAP Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $24.95 1 9 THE NANNY DIARIES Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, St. Martin’s, $24.95 29 10 MORGAWR: THE VOYAGE OF THE JERLE SHANNARA Terry Brooks, Del Rey, $27.95 4
NONFICTION
1 LET’S ROLL: ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE Lisa Beamer with Ken Abraham, Tyndale, $24.99 5 2 LONGITUDES & ATTITUDES: EXPLORING THE WORLD AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $26 3 3 LET FREEDOM RING: WINNING THE WAR OF LIBERTY OVER LIBERALISM Sean Hannity, ReganBooks, $25.95 5 4 THE PERRICONE PRESCRIPTION Nicholas Perricone, HarperResource, $27.50 7 5 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? Spencer Johnson, Putnam, $19.95 142 6 WHAT WE SAW: THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 IN WORDS, PICTURES, AND VIDEO CBS News, introduction by Dan Rather, Simon & Schuster, $29.95 4 7 SLANDER: LIBERAL LIES ABOUT THE AMERICAN RIGHT Ann Coulter, Crown, $25.95 13 8 GOOD TO GREAT: WHY SOME COMPANIES MAKE THE LEAP…AND OTHERS DON’T Jim Collins, HarperBusiness, $27.50 13 9 A LIFE GOD REWARDS: WHY EVERYTHING YOU DO TODAY MATTERS FOREVER Bruce Wilkinson with David Kopp, Multnomah, $10.99 1 10 SELF MATTERS: CREATING YOUR LIFE FROM THE INSIDE OUT Phillip C. McGraw, Simon & Schuster, $25 43
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY