Mostly Books best-sellers for the week ending May 27, 2005

  1. The Mermaid Chair: A Novel Sue Monk Kid, Viking ($19.96)
  2. Bad Cat Jim Edgar, Workman Press ($9.95)
  3. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Ann Brashares, Delacorte Books ($8.95)
  4. The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams, Del Rey ($18.95)
  5. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon ($19.95)
  6. The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger, Harvest Books ($14)
  7. The Known World Edward P. Jones, Amistad Press ($13.95)
  8. Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud Goldie Hawn, Putnam ($25.95)
  9. The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight LossArthur Agatston, Rodale, Inc. ($14.95 paperback)
  10. Gilead: A Novel Marilynne Robinson, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ($23)

This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2005.