Mostly Books best-sellers for the week ending April 22, 2005

  1. Mermaid Chair: A Novel Sue Monk Kidd, Viking ($19.96)
  2. The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Penguin ($15)
  3. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead Books ($14)
  4. Bad Cat: 244 Not-So-Pretty Kitties and Cats Gone Bad Jim Edgar, Workman Press ($9.95)
  5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon, Vintage ($12)
  6. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Azar Nafiski, Random House ($13.95)
  7. Blue Dahlia Nora Roberts, Jove ($4 used)
  8. Exit Wounds J. A. Jance, Avon ($7.99)
  9. Morality for Beautiful Girls: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor ($11.95)
  10. Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Creating a Legacy of Physical and Emotional Health Christiane Northrup, M.D., Bantam ($28)

This article appears in Apr 28 – May 4, 2005.