THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Best Sellers               July 27, 2008
This Week	FICTION                    Adult	Last Week	Weeks on List			This Week	NONFICTION               Adult	Last Week	Weeks on List
1	TRIBUTE, by Nora Roberts.  A former child star returns to Virginia to rehabilitate the farm owned by her grandmother, an actress who died mysteriously.		1			1	WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES, by David Sedaris. The humorist’s latest essays deal with middle age, mortality and giving up smoking.	1	6
2	FEARLESS FOURTEEN, by Janet Evanovich.  Stephanie Plum and her boyfriend Joe Morelli become involved when his cousin’s bank robbery goes bad.	2	4			2	ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler.  Humorous personal essays from the stand-up comedian.	4	12
3	THE LAST PATRIOT, by Brad Thor.  Scot Harvath, a Homeland Security superagent, searches for an ancient secret that could defeat Islamic militants.	1	2			3	FLEECED, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann.  Americans are fleeced by government, business, labor unions and lobbyists.	2	3
4	THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski.  A mute takes refuge with three dogs in the Wisconsin woods after his uncle murders his father.	5	5			4	WHAT HAPPENED, by Scott McClellan.  A former White House press secretary regrets that “I allowed myself to be deceived” by top officials.	3	7
5	SWAN PEAK, by James Lee Burke.  The Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux can’t escape trouble on his Montana vacation.		1			5	STORI TELLING, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin.  The actress’s memoir, from her Hollywood childhood through “Beverly Hills, 90210,” to her son’s birth.	9	7
6	SAIL, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan.  A sailing vacation turns into a disaster when someone attempts to destroy a family.	3	5			6	THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE, by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi.  An American writer in Florence and an Italian journalist work to discover the identity of a local serial killer.	5	5
7	THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer.  In this first adult novel by the author of the Twilight series for teenagers, aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won’t surrender.	6	10			7	THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD, by Fareed Zakaria.  The rise of China and India and the global distribution of power.	8	11
8	TAILSPIN, by Catherine Coulter. 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.	4	3			8	AUDITION, by Barbara Walters.  A personal and professional memoir.	7	10
9	THE BEACH HOUSE, by Jane Green.  A woman’s life changes when she rents out rooms in her Nantucket house.	10	4			9	THE PROSECUTION OF GEORGE W. BUSH FOR MURDER, by Vincent Bugliosi.  The Manson prosecutor makes a case for trying the president for the deaths of 4,000 American soldiers in Iraq.	16	5
10	LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH, by Emily Giffin.  A woman’s happy marriage is shaken when she encounters an old boyfriend.	11	9			10	MY STROKE OF INSIGHT, by Jill Bolte Taylor.  A brain scientist shares what she learned from her 1996 stroke.	6	6
11	CHASING DARKNESS, by Robert Crais.  Is the Los Angeles private eye Elvis Cole responsible for the release of a serial killer?	7	2			11	ROME 1960, by David Maraniss.  How the 1960 Olympic Games reflected their time.	14	2
12	CHASING HARRY WINSTON, by Lauren Weisberger. Three glamorous friends, New York women nearing 30, vow to change their lives.	13	7			12	SOMEWHERE IN HEAVEN, by Christopher Andersen.  The marriage of Christopher and Dana Reeve.		1
13	ROGUE, by Danielle Steel.  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.	8	3			13	IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, by Michael Pollan.  A manifesto urges us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”	12	20
14	DEATH ANGEL, by Linda Howard.  A crime lord’s former mistress cooperates with the F.B.I.	9	2			14	I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!), by Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Allison Silverman et al.  The wit and wisdom of the mock pundit of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report.”		28
15	SILENT THUNDER, by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen.  A decommissioned Soviet submarine holds a deadly secret.		1			15	ME OF LITTLE FAITH, by Lewis Black.  The stand-up comedian’s essays about religion focus on what we believe and why.	11	6
16	THE LAST ORACLE, by James Rollins.  Sigma Force operatives battle a group of rogue scientists.	12	3			16	A CHAMPION’S MIND, by Pete Sampras with Peter Bodo.  The tennis star reviews his life and career.		1