The Book Sense/Mid-South Independent Bestseller Lists

by Staff, PW Daily for Booksellers -- Publishers Weekly, 3/11/2005

The following are bestsellers for the week ended Sunday, March 6, based on sales reports from Mid-South Independent Booksellers Association bookstores and compiled by Book Sense.

Hardcover Fiction

1. The Broker by John Grisham (Doubleday, $27.95, 0385510454)
2. Honeymoon by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown, $27.95, 0316710628)
3. Blood Memory by Greg Iles (Scribner, $24.95, 0743234707)
4. Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva (Putnam, $25.95, 0399152431)
5. The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais (Doubleday, $24.95, 0385504284)
6. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House, $21.95, 1400062314)
7. Lost Lake by Phillip Margolin (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060735023)
8. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0066214130)
9. The Same Sweet Girls by Cassandra King (Hyperion, $23.95, 1401300383)
10. Cage's Bend by Carter Coleman (Warner, $24.95, 0446576611)
11. Impossible by Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $27, 0385338260)
12. The Rock Orchard by Paula Wall (Atria, $24, 0743496205)
13. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95, 0385504209)
14. The Sign of the Book by John Dunning (Scribner, $25, 0743255054)
15. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $26.95, 0446531081)

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano (Knopf, $22, 1400042127)
2. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
3. God's Politics by Jim Wallis (HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 0060558288)
4. Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen (Warner, $19.99, 0446532754)
5. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table by Maya Angelou (Random House, $29.95, 1400062896)
6. He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo (S&S, $21.95, 068987474X)
7. Plan B by Anne Lamott (Riverhead, $24.95, 1573222992)
8. Collapse by Jared Diamond (Viking, $29.95, 0670033375)
9. Blood Brother by Anne Bird (ReganBooks, $25.95, 0060838574)
10. Everyday Italian by Giada de Laurentiis (Clarkson N Potter, $30, 1400052580)
11. America (The Book) by Jon Stewart and the Daily Show Staff (Warner, $24.95, 0446532681)
12. The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston M.D. (Rodale, $24.95, 1579546463)
13. Feet on the Street by Roy Blount, Jr. (Crown, $16, 1400046459)
14. Good to Great by Jim Collins (HarperCollins, $27.50, 0066620996)
15. Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart by Gordon Livingston (Marlowe, $18, 1569244197)

Trade Paperback Fiction

1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12, 1400032717)
3. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
4. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Perennial, $13.95, 0060931418)
6. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
7. The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd (Ballantine, $16.95, 0345472357)
8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Harvest, $14, 0156027321)
9. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
10. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (Random House, $13.95, 0812968972)
11. The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $12.95, 0446693332)
12. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner, $14, 0618485228)
13. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454537)
14. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Scribner, $15, 0743227441)
15. As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner (Vintage, $11.95, 067973225X)

Trade Paperback Nonfiction

1. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
2. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
3. We're Just Like You, Only Prettier by Celia Rivenbark (Griffin, $12.95, 031231244X)
4. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
5. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95, 081297106X)
6. Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom (Broadway, $12.95, 076790592X)
7. The Great Influenza by John M. Barry (Penguin, $16, 0143034480)
8. Zagat New Orleans Restaurants and Nightlife (Zagat Survey, $11.95, 1570066531)
9. The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto (Beyond Words, $16.95, 1582701148)
10. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95, 0393317552)
11. Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff (Chelsea Green, $10, 1931498717)
12. Bayou Farewell by Mike Tidwell (Vintage, $14, 0375725172)
13. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz (Workman, $18.95, 0761104844)
14. Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Pantheon, $8.95, 0679732411)
15. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller (Nelson, $13.99, 0785263705)

Mass Market

1. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
2. Blowout by Catherine Coulter (Jove, $7.99, 0515139254)
3. The Last Juror by John Grisham (Dell, $7.99, 044024157X)
4. A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva (Signet, $7.99, 0451213181)
5. The Narrows by Michael Connelly (Warner, $7.99, 0446611646)
6. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $7.50, 0446605239)
7. Night by Elie Wiesel (Bantam, $5.99, 0553272535)
8. The Bookman's Promise by John Dunning (Pocket, $7.99, 0743476298)
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Bantam, $4.95, 0553211404)
10. Bad Business by Robert B. Parker (Berkley, $7.99, 0425199576)

Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)

1. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick, $5.99, 0763625582)
2. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
3. The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) by Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064407667)
4. The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events #3) by Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064407683)
5. Girls in Pants by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $16.95, 0385729359)
6. The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events #11) by Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064410145)
7. The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events #6) by Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064408647)
8. Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum, $16.95, 0689856393)
9. Ida B: And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan (Greenwillow, $15.99, 0060730242)
10. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $8.95, 0385731051)
11. The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events #2) by Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064407675)
12. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (Puffin, $6.99, 014038572X)
13. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $18.95, 0375826688)
14. The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events #5) by Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064408639)
15. Winter of the Ice Wizard (Magic Tree House #32) by Mary Pope Osborne, illustrated by Sal Murdocca (Random House, $11.95, 0375827366)

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