Pulitzer-winner Michael Chabon leads off a strong literary fiction lineup with his much-delayed, much-anticipated new novel. On its heels are big books from TheKite Runner's Khaled Hosseini, Armistead Maupin, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje and Stephen Carter, and novellas from Ian McEwan and Rick Moody. But where are the women? Yes, Annie Dillard's back, and so is Joyce Carol Oates (of course). But after that, the trail leads into genre fiction, where Janet Evanovich presides over the usual suspects.
In nonfiction, there are memoirs from Nobel laureate Günter Grass, Barbara Kingsolver, political columnist Robert Novak and boxer George Forman. Tina Brown delivers her first book, on Princess Diana's legacy; Robert Dallek weighs in on Nixon and Kissinger; and Lee Iacocca talks leadership. But who knew metal rocker Alice Cooper was a monster golf addict?
| MAY 1 |Simple Genius by David Baldacci (Warner, $26.99). 750,000 copies.The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, $26.95). 250,000 copies.Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver (HarperCollins, $26.95). 175,000 copies.The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho (HarperCollins, $24.95). 150,000 copies.Living the Truth: Why Everything You've Lived Through Is the Key to Everything You Can Be by Keith Ablow (Little, Brown, $25.99). 150,000 copies.Making Waves: The Autobiography by David Hasselhoff (St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95). 150,000 copies.Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday, $24.95). 125,000 copies.Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra (Harper San Francisco, $24.95). 100,000 copies.Death of a Dissident: Alexander Litvinenko and the Death of Russian Democracy by Alex Goldfarb with Marina Litvinenko (Free Press, $27).| MAY 2 |
Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major by John Feinstein (Little, Brown, $26.99). 225,000 copies.
| MAY 7 |
Obsession by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine, $26.95).
The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story by Frances Kiernan (Norton, $24.95).
| MAY 8 |
The 6th Target by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.99). 1.25 million copies.
Boots on the Ground by Dusk: The Remarkable Life and Death of Pat Tillman by Mary Tillman and Narda Zacchino (Hyperion, $24.95). 250,000 copies.
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789—1989 by Michael Beschloss (Simon & Schuster, $28). 250,000 copies.
Stormy Weather by Paulette Jiles (Morrow, $24.95). 100,000 copies.
After Dark by Haruki Murakami (Knopf, $22). 75,000 copies.
The Entitled by Frank Deford (Sourcebooks Landmark, $24.95).
| MAY 10 |
No Retreat, No Surrender: One American's Fight by Tom DeLay with Stephen Mansfield (Sentinel, $25.95). 150,000 copies.
| MAY 15 |
Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child (Delacorte, $26). 250,000 copies.
Where Have All the Leaders Gone? by Lee Iacocca (Scribner, $25). 250,000 copies.
Pearl Harbor: A Novel of the World War II Pacific Theater by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen (St. Martin's/Dunne, $25.95). 200,000 copies.
Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: My Twelve Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict by Alice Cooper (Crown, $24.95). 150,000 copies.
The Religion by Tim Willocks (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26). 150,000 copies.
Just a Guy: Notes from a Blue Collar Life by Bill Engvall with Alan Eisenstock (St. Martin's, $19.95). 150,000 copies.
Invisible Prey by John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95). 100,000 copies.
Rickles' Book by Don Rickles (Simon & Schuster, $24). 100,000 copies.
| MAY 22 |
The Overlook by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $21.99). 500,000 copies.
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek (HarperCollins, $35). 200,000 copies.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95). 100,000 copies.
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi (Norton, $49.95).
God in My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir by George Foreman (W, $24.99).
| MAY 29 |
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27). 600,000 copies.
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco, $24.95). 100,000 copies.
| JUNE 1 |
North River by Pete Hamill (Little, Brown, $25.99). 175,000 copies.
| JUNE 4 |
1,000 Places to See in the USA & Canada Before You Die by Patricia Schultz (Workman, $27.95). 250,000 copies.
| JUNE 5 |
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Betrayal by Eric Van Lustbader (Warner, $25.99). 400,000 copies.
The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster, $26.95). 300,000 copies.
The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley, $25.95). 200,000 copies.
The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown (Doubleday, $26.95). 200,000 copies.
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Doubleday/Talese, $22). 200,000 copies.
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf, $25). 200,000 copies.
Falling Manby Don DeLillo (Scribner, $26). 150,000 copies.
The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington by Robert D. Novak (Crown, $29.95). 100,000 copies.
This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood by Jack Valenti (Harmony, $25.95). 100,000 copies.
The Navigatorby Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam, $26.95). 100,000 copies.
Spare Change by Robert B. Parker (Putnam, $24.95). 100,000 copies.
The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruptionby John Perkins (Dutton, $25.95).
| JUNE 6 |
Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas by Rick Moody (Little, Brown, $23.99). 30,000 copies.
| JUNE 12 |
The Assassin by Stephen Coonts (St. Martin's, $25.95). 250,000 copies.
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (HarperCollins, $24.95). 100,000 copies.
| JUNE 19 |
Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $26.95). 1.25 million copies.
Innocent as Sin by Elizabeth Lowell (Morrow, $24.95). 200,000 copies.
Double Take by Catherine Coulter (Putnam, $25.95). 100,000 copies.
Lady in Blue by Javier Sierra (Atria, $25.95).
Up Close and Dangerous by Linda Howard (Ballantine, $25.95).
| JUNE 25 |
Peeling the Onion by Günter Grass, trans. by Michael Henry Heim (Harcourt, $26). 75,000 copies.
| JUNE 26 |
Bungalow 2 by Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $27). 750,000 copies.
What Matters Most by Luanne Rice (Bantam, $24). 200,000 copies.
Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin (HarperCollins, $25.95). 150,000 copies.
The Double Agents by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV (Putnam, $25.95). 100,000 copies.
Requiem for an Assassin by Barry Eisler (Putnam, $24.95).
| JULY 3 |
The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown, $27.99). 1.1 million copies.
| JULY 10 |
High Noon by Nora Roberts (Putnam, $26.95). 100,000 copies.
Killer Weekend by Ridley Pearson (Putnam, $25.95). 100,000 copies.
Dear G-Spot by Zane (Atria, $25).
Anchored in Love: The Life and Legacy of June Carter Cashby John Carter Cash (W, $24.99).
| JULY 15 |
New England White by Stephen Carter (Knopf, $26.95). 300,000 copies.
| JULY 17 |
The People's Princess: Cherished Memories of Diana, Princess of Wales by Larry King (Crown, $19.95). 100,000 copies.
| JULY 24 |
Justice Denied by J.A. Jance (Morrow, $25.95). 200,000 copies.
The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva (Putnam, $25.95). 100,000 copies.
The First Commandmentby Brad Thor (Atria, $25.95).
Someone to Love by Jude Deveraux (Atria, $25.95).
Psychic Children: Revealing the Intuitive Gifts and Hidden Abilities of Boys and Girls by Sylvia Brown (Dutton, $25.95).
| JULY 31 |
Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper (Bantam, $25). 175,000 copies.
Up Close and Personal by Fern Michaels (Kensington, $24). 100,000 copies.
| AUGUST 1 |
The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Warner, $25.99). 350,000 copies.
| AUGUST 7 |
Power Playby Joseph Finder (St. Martin's, $24.95). 200,000 copies.
You Can Run but You Can't Hide: The Life and Times of Dog the Bounty Hunter by Duane "Dog" Chapman (Hyperion, $24.95). 150,000 copies.
Critical by Robin Cook (Putnam, $25.95). 100,000 copies.
Spook Country by William Gibson (Putnam, $29.95). 100,000 copies.
Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War Over Anonymous Sources by Norman Pearlstine (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25). 75,000 copies.
| AUGUST 14 |
[untitled fiction] by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster, $26). 650,000 copies.
Force of Nature by Suzanne Brockmann (Ballantine, $21.95).
| AUGUST 16 |
Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Surprising Truth About Global Warming by Mark Bowen (Dutton, $25.95).
| AUGUST 21 |
Burnt House by Faye Kellerman (Morrow, $25.95). 250,000 copies.
Sandworms of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (Tor, $27.95). 250,000 copies.
| AUGUST 28 |
Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs (Scribner, $25.95). 350,000 copies.
Her Way: The Hope and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. (Little, Brown, $29.99). 150,000 copies.
—with reporting by Raya Kuzyk
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