New York Times Best Seller list for May 6, 2007 - Hardcover Nonfiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: May 6, 2007

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This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	EINSTEIN, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster, $32.) A biography based on newly released personal letters.	1	2
2	PAULA DEEN: IT AIN’T ALL ABOUT THE COOKIN’, by Paula Deen with Sherry Suib Cohen. (Simon & Schuster, $25.) A memoir with recipes from the Southern cooking impresario.	3	3
3	A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.	2	10
4	WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE?, by Lee Iacocca. (Scribner, $25.) The former C.E.O. of Chrysler protests the lack of political and business leadership on issues like health care and energy policy.		1
5	THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama. (Crown, $25.) The Illinois junior senator proposes that Americans move beyond their political divisions.	7	27
6	HOW DOCTORS THINK, by Jerome Groopman. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.) A doctor and New Yorker staff writer describes how doctors arrive at diagnoses.	9	6
7	FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow, $27.95.) A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to nearly everything.	12	100
8	THIS MOMENT ON EARTH, by John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry. (Public Affairs, $25.) Environmental challenges and possible solutions.		1
9	CRAZIES TO THE LEFT OF ME, WIMPS TO THE RIGHT, by Bernard Goldberg. (HarperCollins, $25.95.) The author of “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America” attacks liberals and accuses Republicans of betraying conservative principles.		1
10	THE WILD TREES, by Richard Preston. (Random House, $25.95.) The people who climb the massive California redwoods to study the complex life in their canopies.		1

New York Times Best Seller list for May 6, 2007 - Harcover Fiction

Hardcover Fiction

Published: May 6, 2007

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This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN, by J. R. R. Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Illustrated by Alan Lee. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.) In Middle-earth, an evil lord wants to destroy his rival’s children.		1
2	THE WOODS, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $26.95.) New evidence about a case of murder and disappearance at a summer camp 20 years earlier forces a county prosecutor to confront family secrets.		1
3	I HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A woman marries a childhood acquaintance suspected of several murders.	1	3
4	THE GOOD HUSBAND OF ZEBRA DRIVE, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $21.95.) The eighth novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.		1
5	NINETEEN MINUTES, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $26.95.) The aftermath of a high school shooting reveals the fault lines in a small New Hampshire town.	2	7
6	OBSESSION, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $26.95.) The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates an apparent deathbed confession of murder.	5	4
7	FRESH DISASTERS, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, tangles with a mob boss.	3	2
8	KINGDOM COME, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. (Tyndale, $25.99.) The final title in the “Left Behind” series.	6	3
9	* SLEEPING WITH STRANGERS, by Eric Jerome Dickey. (Dutton, $24.95.) A hit man who hopes to leave the business travels to London to escape pursuers.	9	2
10	THE ALIBI MAN, by Tami Hoag. (Bantam, $26.) A disgraced former policewoman investigates a murder linked to a group of wealthy Palm Beach men.	8	4