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Published on Taipei Times http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/05/20/2003361778 New York Times bestsellers (hardcover) NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE Sunday, May 20, 2007, Page 18 FICTION
1. SIMPLE GENIUS by David Baldacci WarnIer Two former Secret Service agents investigate a scientist・s murder.
2. THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN・S UNION by Michael Chabon HarperCollins A detective investigates the murder of a neighbor in a Jewish settlement in Alaska.
3. THE CHILDREN OF HURIN by J.R.R. Tolkien (edited by Christopher Tolkien) Houghton Mifflin In Middle-earth, an evil lord wants to destroy his rival・s children.
4. THE WOODS by Harlan Coben Dutton New evidence about a case of murder and disappearance at a summer camp 20 years earlier forces a county prosecutor to confront family secrets.
5. RANT by Chuck Palahniuk Doubleday The ：oral biography； of a serial killer.
6. ALL TOGETHER DEAD by Charlaine Harris Ace Sookie Stackhouse, a New Orleans cocktail waitress, is swept up in the intrigue of a vampire summit.
7. THE GOOD HUSBAND OF ZEBRA DRIVE by Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon The eighth novel in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.
8. I HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE by Mary Higgins Clark Simon & Schuster A woman marries a childhood acquaintance suspected of several murders.
9. BODY SURFING by Anita Shreve Little, Brown A woman takes a job as a tutor and becomes involved in a wealthy family・s rivalries.
10. NINETEEN MINUTES by Jodi Picoult Atria The aftermath of a high school shooting reveals the fault lines in a small New Hampshire town.
11. BACK ON BLOSSOM STREET by Debbie Macomber Mira More stories of life and love from a Seattle knitting class.
12. THE RIVER KNOWS by Amanda Quick Putnam In Victorian England, an investigative reporter and a wealthy Londoner feign a romance while they investigate a man suspected of murder.
13. FRESH DISASTERS by Stuart Woods Putnam Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, tangles with a mob boss and pursues a complicated romance.
NONFICTION
1. AT THE CENTER OF THE STORM by George Tenet HarperCollins The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency looks back on his career.
2. EINSTEIN by Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster A biography based on newly released personal letters.
3. GOD IS NOT GREAT by Christopher Hitchens Twelve Religion as a malignant force in the world.
4. ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven Hopp and Camille Kingsolver HarperCollins The novelist and her family spend a year eating homegrown or local food; an argument for diversified farms and sustainable agriculture.
5. PAULA DEEN: IT AIN・T ALL ABOUT THE COOKIN・ by Paula Deen with Sherry Suib Cohen Simon & Schuster A memoir with recipes from the Southern cooking impresario, writer and TV personality.
6. A LONG WAY GONE by Ishmael Beah Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux A former child solider from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.
7. WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE by Lee Iacocca Scribner The former CEO of Chrysler protests the lack of political and business leadership on issues like health care and energy policy.
8. SILENT PARTNER by Dina Matos McGreevey Hyperion The former wife of the former governor of New Jersey, Jim McGreevey, tells the story of her marriage to a man who resigned his office and came out as a ：gay American.；
9. THE BLACK SWAN by Nassim Nicholas Tableb Random House The role of the unexpected.
10. KABUL BEAUTY SCHOOL by Deborah Rodriguez with Kristin Ohlson Random House To aid Afghan women, an American runs a beauty school in Kabul.
11. HOW DOCTORS THINK by Jerome Groopman Houghton Mifflin A doctor and New Yorker staff writer describes how doctors arrive at diagnoses and what patients can do to make sure they don・t err.
12. I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK by Nora Ephron Knopf A witty look at aging from a novelist and screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally. |