December 01, 2005
Thursday

Bestsellers compiled from data from large-city bookstores, bookstore chains and local best-seller lists across the United States. The first number to the right of the author's name is the book's previous week's ranking; the second is the number of weeks the book has been on the best-seller list.

Fiction Hardcover

1. Mary, Mary. James Patterson. Little, Brown, $27.95 (1, 2)

2. Light from Heaven. Jan Karon. Viking, $26.95 (2, 3)

3. At First Sight. Nicholas Sparks. Warner, $24.95 (5, 6)

4. The Camel Club. David Baldacci. Warner, $26.95 (6, 5)

5. Predator. Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $26.95 (4, 5)

6. The Lighthouse. P.D. James. Knopf, $25.95 ( -, 1)

7. Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. By J.K. Rowling. Scholastic/Levine, $29.99 (8, 18)

8. Star Wars: Dark Lord _ The Rise of Darth Vader. James Luciano. Del Rey, 25.95 ( -,1)

9. A Feast for Crows. George R.R. Martin. Bantam Spectra, $28 (3, 3)

10. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt Anne Rice. Knopf, $25.95 (7, 4)

11. Knife of Dreams. Robert Jordan. Tor, $29.95 (9, 7)

12. The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown. Doubleday, $24.95 (10, 140)

13. Son of a Witch. Gregory Maguire. ReganBooks, $26.95 (12, 9)

14. Ordinary Heroes. Scott Turow. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (13, 4)

15. The Regime: Evil Advances. Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Tyndale, $25.99 ( -, 1)

Nonfiction Hardcover

1. Our Endangered Values. Jimmy Carter. Simon & Schuster, $25 ( 3, 4)

2. Teacher Man. Frank McCourt. Scribner, $26 (1, 2)

3. Team of Rivals. Doris Kearns Goodwin. Simon & Schuster, $35 (2, 5)

4. The World Is Flat. Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50 (4, 34)

5. Healthy Aging. Andrew Weil, M.D. Knopf, $27.95 (8, 6)

6. The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion. Knopf, $23.95 (5, 8)

7. 700 Sundays. Billy Crystal. Warner, $21.95 (7, 4)

8. The Truth (with Jokes). Al Franken. Dutton, $25.95 (6, 5)

9. You: The Owner's Manual. Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. HarperResource, $24.95 ( -, 28)

10. Marley and Me. John Grogan. Morrow, $21.95 (13, 5)

11. Freakonomics. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Morrow, $25.95 (9, 33)

12. The Education of a Coach. David Halberstam. Hyperion, $24.95 (-, 1)

13. My Friend Leonard. James Frey. Riverhead, $24.95 (15, 4)

14. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About. Kevin Trudeau. Alliance Publishing, $29.95 (10, 24)

15. Character Is Destiny. John McCain with Mark Salter. Random House, $23.95 ( -, 1)

Mass Market Paperback

1. The Broker. John Grisham. Dell, $7.99 ( -, 1)

2. State of Fear. Michael Crichton. Avon, $7.99 (1, 5)

3. Whiteout. Ken Follett. Signet, $7.99 (3, 5)

4. Blood Memory. Greg Iles. Pocket Star, $9.95 ( -, 1)

5. Night Fall. Nelson DeMille. Warner, $7.99 (2, 5)

6. Red Lily. Nora Roberts. Jove, $7.99 ( -, 1)

7. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda. David Michaels. Berkley, $7.99 (6, 4)

8. Life Expectancy. Dean Koontz. Bantam, $7.99 (4, 5)

9. Angels & Demons. Dan Brown. Pocket, $7.99 (5, 136)

10. Memoirs of a Geisha. Arthur Golden. Vintage International, $7.99 ( - , 1)

11. The Colorado Kid. Stephen King. Hard Case Crime, $5.99 (7, 8)

12. London Bridges. James Patterson. Warner Vision, $7.99 (10, 9)

13. Jarhead. Anthony Swofford. Pocket, $7.99 (9, 4)

14. Night Game. Christine Feehan. Jove, $9.99 (11, 4)

15. Silver Bells. Luanne Rice. Bantam, $7.50 ( -, 1)

Trade Paperbacks

1. A Million Little Pieces. James Frey. Anchor, $14.95 (1, 10)

2. Memoirs of a Geisha. Arthur Golden. Vintage, $14.95 (2, 8)

3. Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats. Rachael Ray. Clarkson Potter, $19.95 (5, 4)

4. Wicked. Gregory Maguire. Regan Books, $15 (3, 31)

5. The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $14 (4, 64)

6. Why Do Men Have Nipples? Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D. Three Rivers Press, $12.95 (6, 15)

7. Sudoku Easy to Hard. Will Shortz. St. Martin's/Griffin, $6.95 (8, 16)

8. Vanishing Acts. Jodi Picoult. Washington Square Press, $14 (9, 2)

9. Light on Snow. Anita Shreve. L,B/Back Bay, $14.95 (7, 11)

10. The Book of Sudoku #1. Michael Mepham. Overlook Press, $9.95 (10, 15)

11. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2006. Ken Park, editor. World Almanac, $12.95 ( -, 1)

12. Su Doku for Dummies. Andrew Heron and Edmund James. Wiley, $9.99 (12, 14)

13. In Cold Blood. Truman Capote. Vintage, $14 (11, 4)

14. The Secret Life of Bees. Sue Monk Kidd. Penguin, $14 (13, 144)

15. The Tipping Point. Malcolm Gladwell. LB/Back Bay, $14.95 (15, 43)

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