NATIONAL BESTSELLERS
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Original Fiction 1
( 1) 6 A Breath of Snow
and Ashes, Diana
Gabaldon ( Doubleday
Canada).
( 2) 4 Knife of Dreams,
Robert Jordan ( Tor).
( 4) 134 The Da Vinci
Code, Dan Brown ( Doubleday).
( 3) 4 The Penelopiad,
Margaret Atwood
( Knopf Canada).
( 6) 2 The Lighthouse,
P. D. James ( Knopf Canada).
(-) 1 Predator, Patricia
Cornwell ( Putnam).
( 5) 3 At First Sight,
Nicholas Sparks ( Warner).
( 7) 57 The Five People
You Meet in Heaven,
Mitch Albom ( Hyperion). 9
( 9) 5 The Lincoln
Lawyer, Michael
Connelly ( Little, Brown). 10(-)
16 The Undomestic
Goddess, Sophie
Kinsella ( Dial). 4 5 6 7 Original Non- Fiction 1
( 1) 2 Race Against Time,
Stephen Lewis ( Anansi). 2
( 3) 43 Blink, Malcolm
Gladwell ( Little, Brown). 3
( 2) 31 The World is Flat:
ABrief History of the
Twenty- First Century,
Thomas L. Friedman
( Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
( 4) 28 Freakonomics,
Steven Levitt and
Stephen Dubner
( William Morrow).
( 7) 3 My Friend
Leonard, James Frey ( Riverhead).
( 5) 8 The Secret
Mulroney Tapes:
Unguarded Confessions
of a Prime Minister,
Peter C. Newman
( Random House Canada).
( 6) 2 Mao: The
Unknown Story, Jung
Chang and Jon Halliday
( Knopf). 8
(-) 1 The Truth with
Jokes, Al Franken ( Dutton). 9
( 10) 4 The City of Falling
Angels, John Berendt
( Penguin). 10(-)
8 The Game:
Penetrating the Secret
Society of Pickup
Artists, Neil Strauss
( Regan). Reprint Fiction 1
( 1) 3
State of Fear,
Michael Crichton
( Avon). 2
( 2) 88 Angels &
Demons, Dan Brown
( Pocket). 3
( 3) 50 The Kite Runner,
Khaled Hosseini
( Anchor Canada). 4
( 5) 2 Life Expectancy,
Dean Koontz ( Bantam). 5
( 6) 56 Deception Point,
Dan Brown ( Pocket). 6
(-) 1 Night Fall, Nelson
DeMille ( Warner). 7
( 4) 5 London Bridges,
James Patterson ( Warner). 8
( 9) 4 Northern Lights,
Nora Roberts ( Jove). 9
( 10) 19 A Complicated
Kindness, Miriam Toews
( Vintage Canada). 10(
8) 6 Echoes, Danielle
Steel ( Dell). 4 5 6 7 Reprint Non- Fiction 1
( 1) 7 A Million Little
Pieces, James Frey ( Anchor). 2
( 2) 42 The Tipping
Point, Malcolm Gladwell
( Little, Brown). 3
( 4) 4 Jarhead: A
Marine’s Chronicle of
the Gulf War and Other
Battles, Anthony
Swofford ( Pocket).
( 5) 55 Shake Hands
With the Devil: The
Failure of Humanity in
Rwanda, Roméo Dallaire
( Random House Canada).
( 3) 155 Tuesdays With
Morrie, Mitch Albom
( Broadway).
( 8) 59 A Short History
of Nearly Everything,
Bill Bryson ( Anchor Canada).
( 6) 166 Guns, Germs,
and Steel: The Fates Of
Human Societies, Jared
Diamond ( Norton). 8
( 7) 6 Green River,
Running Red, Ann Rule
( Pocket). 9
( 10) 5 Chronicles:
Volume One, Bob Dylan
( Simon & Schuster). 10(
9) 14 The Rebel Sell:
Why the Culture Can’t
be Jammed, Joseph
Heath and Andrew
Potter ( HarperCollins). 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Special Interest 1
( 1) 27 You: The Owner’s
Manual, Michael F.
Roizen and Mehmet C.
Oz ( HarperCollins).
( 2) 2 Healthy Aging,
Andrew Weils ( Knopf).
( 4) 14 Eat Shrink & Be
Merry, Janet Podleski
and Greta Podleski ( Granet).
( 5) 18 Sudoku: The Hot
New Puzzle Craze,
compiled by Michael
Mepham ( Penguin Canada).
( 3) 18 Natural Cures
“ They” Don’t Want You
to Know About, Kevin
Trudeau ( Alliance).
( 6) 3 Su Doku for
Dummies, Andrew
Heron and Edmund
James ( Wiley).
( 9) 151 What to Expect
When You’re Expecting,
Arlene Eisenberg
( Workman).
( 10) 10 Guinness Book
of Records 2006
( Guinness Book of Records). 9
( 8) 84 The Purpose
Driven Life, Rick Warren
( Zondervan). 10(
7) 3 Live Your Best Life,
The Oprah Magazine
( Oxmoor House). ( 1) = Book’s position last week. 2 = number of weeks on list. The Star’s bestseller list is compiled six days prior to publication.