BEST-SELLERS

Fiction 1. SUNDAY AT TIFFANY'S, James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet. A woman finds an unexpected love.

2. THE WHOLE TRUTH, David Baldacci. An intelligence agent and a journalist team up against a warmongering defense contractor.

3. TWENTY WISHES, Debbie Macomber. A widow who owns a bookstore on Blossom Street compiles a list of things she always wanted to do.

4. HOLD TIGHT, Harlan Coben. The aftermath of a high school kid's suicide rocks a New Jersey suburb.

5. UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, Jhumpa Lahiri. Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children.

6. WHERE ARE YOU NOW? Mary Higgins Clark. A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared.

7. DEAD HEAT, Joel C. Rosenberg.

With the world on the brink of war, terrorists plot to assassinate a candidate in a closely fought presidential election.

8. THE MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS, Alexander McCall Smith.

The ninth novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

9. CHILD 44, Tom Rob Smith. A serial killer in Stalinist Russia can't be caught because he doesn't officially exist.

10. CERTAIN GIRLS, Jennifer Weiner. A girl rediscovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier.

(The New York Times)Nonfiction1. THE REVOLUTION, Ron Paul.

A libertarian manifesto from the Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate.

2. A WOLF AT THE TABLE, Augusten Burroughs, a memoir of a life with a cruel father, by the author of the controversial book A Million Little Pieces.

3. ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA, Chelsea Handler.

Humorous personal essays from the stand-up comedian.

4. HOME, Julie Andrews. A memoir of Andrews' early years, from birth to being cast as Mary Poppins.

5. ESCAPE, Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer. A former member of a fundamentalist polygamous sect describes her forced union to a much older man.

6. LADIES OF LIBERTY, Cokie Roberts. The influential women of early America.

7. A REMARKABLE MOTHER, Jimmy Carter. A homage to Lillian Carter, the 39th president's mother.

8. BEAUTIFUL BOY, David Sheff.

A father struggles with his son's methamphetamine addiction.

9. MISTAKEN IDENTITY, Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb. The families of two girls whose identities were confused after a 2006 accident describe their experience.

10. A VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE, Tony Horwitz. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter travels in search of the early American history most Americans never learn, an era before Jamestown.

(The New York Times)Paperback fiction1. THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB, Kate Jacobs. (Berkley) 2. NINETEEN MINUTES, Jodi Picoult.

(Washington Square) 3. THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER, Kim Edwards. (Penguin) 4. THE KITE RUNNER, Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead) 5. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, Sara Gruen. (Algonquin) (The New York Times)Paperback nonfiction1. THREE CUPS OF TEA, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin) 2. EAT, PRAY, LOVE, Elizabeth Gilbert.

(Penguin) 3. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. (Revell) 4. MARLEY & ME, John Grogan.

(Harper) 5. THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins. (Mariner) (The New York Times)

Travel, Pages 95 on 05/18/2008

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