Friday, May 15, 2009

Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list, Week of May 17, 2009

1. THE 8TH CONFESSION, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women''s Murder Club investigate a pair of killings.

2. LOVER AVENGED, by J. R. Ward. (New American Library, $24.95.) A vampire ally hides his mixed blood; Book 7 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

3. FIRST FAMILY, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.) Former Secret Service agents, now P.I.’s, search for a child abducted from a party at Camp David.

4. SUMMER ON BLOSSOM STREET, by Debbie Macomber. (Mira, $24.95.) More stories of life and love from a Seattle knitting class.

5. TEA TIME FOR THE TRADITIONALLY BUILT, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $23.95.) The 10th novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.

6. JUST TAKE MY HEART, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) An assistant prosecutor who has had a heart transplant discovers that her life is at risk.

7. LOITERING WITH INTENT, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) Stone Barrington takes a case in Key West.

8. THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won’t surrender.

9. THE LANGUAGE OF BEES, by Laurie R. King. (Bantam, $25.) Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, help a painter search for his missing wife and child.

10. LOOK AGAIN, by Lisa Scottoline. (St. Martin’s, $26.95.) A reporter learns that her adopted son may have been abducted from his birth mother.

11. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi.

12. THE PERFECT POISON, by Amanda Quick. (Putnam, $24.95.) A Victorian botanist investigates a poisoning; an Arcane Society novel.

13. LONG LOST, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $27.95.) Myron Bolitar helps an ex-lover search for her daughter.

14. HOME SAFE, by Elizabeth Berg. (Random House, $25.) A widow and her daughter cope with grief and discovery.

15. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. (Dial, $22.) A journalist meets the island’s old Nazi resisters.

16. HANDLE WITH CARE, by Jodi Picoult (Atria)

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