New York Time's Best Seller's
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| 1 | FEARLESS FOURTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin’s, $27.95.) Stephanie Plum and her boyfriend Joe Morelli become involved when his cousin’s bank robbery goes bad. | 1 | 2 | 1 | WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES, by David Sedaris. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) The humorist’s latest essays. | 1 | 4 | |
| 2 | SAIL, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A sailing vacation turns into a disaster when someone attempts to destroy a family. | 2 | 3 | 2 | FLEECED, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (Harper, $26.95.) Americans are fleeced by government, business, labor unions and lobbyists. (†) | 1 | ||
| 3 | TAILSPIN, by Catherine Coulter. (Putnam, $25.95.) Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock — F.B.I. agents as well as husband and wife — come to the aid of a colleague protecting a Washington psychiatrist who has been disclosing secrets about his powerful patients. | 1 | 3 | WHAT HAPPENED, by Scott McClellan. (PublicAffairs, $27.95.) A former White House press secretary regrets that “I allowed myself to be deceived” by top officials. | 2 | 5 | ||
| 4 | ROGUE, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $27.) A divorced doctor on the verge of marriage to a kind new man faces a quandary when her exasperating ex-husband, a dot-com millionaire, wants her to work with him on a humanitarian project. | 1 | 4 | ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) Humorous personal essays from the stand-up comedian. | 4 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 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. | 3 | 8 | 5 | THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE, by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi. (Grand Central, $25.99.) An American writer in Florence and an Italian journalist work to discover the identity of a local serial killer. | 3 | 3 | |
| 6 | THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski. (Ecco, $25.95.) A mute takes refuge with three dogs in the Wisconsin woods after his uncle murders his father. | 9 | 3 | 6 | AUDITION, by Barbara Walters. (Knopf, $29.95.) A personal and professional memoir. | 6 | 8 | |
| 7 | THE LAST ORACLE, by James Rollins. (Morrow, $26.95.) Sigma Force operatives battle a group of rogue scientists. | 1 | 7 | MY STROKE OF INSIGHT, by Jill Bolte Taylor. (Viking, $24.95.) A brain scientist shares what she learned from her 1996 stroke. | 4 | |||
| 8 | CHASING HARRY WINSTON, by Lauren Weisberger. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) Three glamorous friends, New York women nearing 30, vow to change their lives. | 4 | 5 | 8 | THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD, by Fareed Zakaria. (Norton, $25.95.) The rise of China and India and the global distribution of power. | 7 | 9 | |
| 9 | THE BEACH HOUSE, by Jane Green. (Viking, $24.95.) A woman’s life changes when she rents out rooms in her Nantucket house. | 11 | 2 | 9 | BIG RUSS AND ME, by Tim Russert. (Miramax, $22.95.) Russert remembers his father and the other important teachers in his life. | 5 | 14 | |
| 10 | LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH, by Emily Giffin. (St. Martin’s, $24.95.) A woman’s happy marriage is shaken when she encounters an old boyfriend. | 5 | 7 | 10 | ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT, by Michael Dobbs. (Knopf, $28.95.) A day-by-day account of the Cuban missile crisis. | 1 | ||
| 11 | NOTHING TO LOSE, by Lee Child. (Delacorte, $27.) Jack Reacher exposes the secrets of a Colorado town. | 6 | 4 | 11 | STORI TELLING, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin. (Simon Spotlight, $24.95.) The actress’s memoir, from her Hollywood childhood through “Beverly Hills, 90210,” to her son’s birth. | 5 | ||
| 12 | * THE BROKEN WINDOW, by Jeffery Deaver. (Simon & Schuster, $26.95.) Detectives Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs confront a criminal who frames innocent people. | 8 | 3 | 12 | ME OF LITTLE FAITH, by Lewis Black. (Riverhead, $24.95.) The stand-up comedian’s essays about religion. | 9 | 4 | |
| 13 | PLAGUE SHIP, by Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul. (Putnam, $26.95.) Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must determine what happened on a cruise ship full of dead bodies. | 7 | 4 | 13 | THE DOWNHILL LIE, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf, $22.) The Florida novelist takes up golf again after 32 years. | 10 | 8 | |
| 14 | * ODD HOURS, by Dean R. Koontz. (Bantam, $27.) Odd Thomas, who can communicate with the dead, confronts evil forces in a California coastal town. | 12 | 6 | 14 | * THE PROSECUTION OF GEORGE W. BUSH FOR MURDER, by Vincent Bugliosi. (Vanguard, $26.95.) The Manson prosecutor makes a case for trying the president for the deaths of 4,000 American soldiers in Iraq. | 12 | 3 | |
| 15 | AMERICA AMERICA, by Ethan Canin. (Random House, $27.) A boy becomes entangled with a powerful family in upstate New York in the early 1970s. | 1 | 15 | IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin Press, $21.95.) A manifesto urges us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” | 18 |
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