Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending March 28, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of indepen-dent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some book-stores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books.

This Week FICTION

11 TRUE DETECTIVES, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $27.) In the 24th Alex Delaware novel, the interracial half-brothers from “Bones” investigate a young woman’s death.

1 42 HANDLE WITH CARE, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $27.95.) A woman whose daughter has a dangerous birth defect must decide wheth-er to sue her obstetrician, an old friend.

13 OUTCAST, by Aaron Allston. (Del Rey/Ballantine, $27.) The start of a new series about the extended Skywalker family; a “Star Wars” novel.

3 94 THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) An idealistic law-school graduate is forced to take a job at a large, bru-talizing law firm.

4 465 THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) One woman won’t surrender to the aliens who have taken control.

2 36 CORSAIR, by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul. (Putnam, $27.95.) Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon search for a missing sec-retary of state whose plane has been shot down.

5 87 RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, by James Patterson and Michael Led-widge. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A New York detective raising 10 children alone must stop a killer.

18* PURSUIT, by Karen Robards. (Putnam, $24.95.) A lawyer sur-vives a suspicious car crash that killed the first lady.

7 289 THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. (Dial, $22.) Residents of Guernsey who resisted the Nazis.

110 EXECUTION DOCK, by Anne Perry. (Ballantine, $26.) William Monk of the Thames River Police battles the owner of a floating brothel.

8 611 HEART AND SOUL, by Maeve Binchy. (Knopf, $26.95.) A doctor establishes a heart clinic in a Dublin neighborhood.

112 THE LONG FALL, by Walter Mosley. (Riverhead, $25.95.) Intro-ducing Leonid McGill, a New York private detective with a compli-cated past.

6 513 PROMISES IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. (Putnam, $26.95.) Lt. Eve Dallas investigates a colleague’s murder; by Nora Roberts, writ-ing pseudonymously.

11 514 NIGHT AND DAY, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $25.95.) Jesse Stone, the police chief of Paradise, Mass., must catch a voyeur who forces women to strip at gunpoint.

10 315 DEAD SILENCE, by Randy Wayne White. (Putnam, $25.95.) Doc Ford searches for a kidnapped boy.

15 216* HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET, by Jamie Ford. (Ballantine, $24.) A friendship between a Chinese-American boy and a Japanese-American girl who are students in Seattle during World War II.

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17 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Putnam)

18 ONE DAY AT A TIME, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte)

19 PATHS OF GLORY, by Jeffrey Archer. (St. Martin’s)

20 WHITE WITCH, BLACK CURSE, by Kim Harrison. (Eos/Wil-liam Morrow)

21 ONE SECOND AFTER, by William R. Forstchen. (Forge)

22 GENGHIS: BONES OF THE HILLS, by Conn Iggulden. (Dela-corte)

23 THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski. (Ecco)

24 THE TOURIST, by Olen Steinhauer. (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

25 TERMINAL FREEZE, by Lincoln Child. (Doubleday)

26 STILL LIFE, by Joy Fielding. (Atria)

27 FROM DEAD TO WORSE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace)

28 FOOL, by Christopher Moore. (William Morrow)

29 DOG ON IT, by Spencer Quinn. (Atria)

30 THE LAST DICKENS, by Matthew Pearl. (Random House)

31 FAULT LINE, by Barry Eisler. (Ballantine)

32 LIFE IS SHORT BUT WIDE, by J. California Cooper. (Double-day)

33 TRUE COLORS, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s)

34 THE EXPEDITER, by David Hagberg. (Forge)

35 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf)

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Best Sell ers NonFiction

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Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending March 28, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of indepen-dent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some book-stores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books.

This Week NONFICTION

11 LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Edi-tions, $25.) A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.

1 192 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”

3 33 HOUSE OF CARDS, by William D. Cohan. (Doubleday, $27.95.) The fall of Bear Stearns and the beginning of the Wall Street col-lapse.

2 34 A LION CALLED CHRISTIAN, by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall. (Broadway, $21.95.) Two men buy a pet lion cub in Lon-don and bring him to Africa when he is grown.

4 85 THE YANKEE YEARS, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci. (Dou-bleday, $26.95.) The former Yankee manager (1996-2007) on his years with the team.

5 56 THE LOST CITY OF Z, by David Grann. (Doubleday, $27.50.) A New Yorker writer searches for a British explorer who disap-peared 80 years ago in the Amazon.

9 247 A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. (Broadway, $26.) The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.

18 HAPPENS EVERY DAY, by Isabel Gillies. (Scribner, $25.) A woman’s husband leaves her without warning

8 289* DEWEY, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter. (Grand Central, $19.99.) The kitten left freezing in the returned-book slot of an Iowa public library and his rise to fame.

6 310 MY BOOKY WOOK, by Russell Brand. (Collins, $25.99.) A mem-oir of sex, drugs and stand-up from a British comedian.

16 411 JESUS, INTERRUPTED, by Bart D. Ehrman. (HarperOne, $25.99.) Scholars’’ discoveries about the New Testament.

312 HOW WE DECIDE, by Jonah Lehrer. (Houghton Mifflin Har-court, $25.) Learning more about how we think can help us make better decisions.

12 3413* ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chel-sea Handler. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) Humorous personal essays from the stand-up comedian.

7 314 INSIDE THE REVOLUTION, by Joel C. Rosenberg. (Tyndale, $24.99.) The power of three groups in the Middle East: Islamic radicals, moderate reformers and Muslims who are becoming Christians.(†)

215 JOKER ONE, by Donovan Campbell. (Random House, $26.) A Marine lieutenant and his platoon in Ramadi during the most vio-lent days of the insurgency in 2004.

116* IT SUCKED AND THEN I CRIED, by Heather Armstrong. (Si-mon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.) A memoir of parenthood and postpartum depression by the dooce.com blogger

Last WeeksWeek On List HARDCOVER NONFICTION EXTENDED

17 NO ANGEL, by Jay Dobyns and Nils Johnson-Shelton. (Crown)

18 OUT OF CAPTIVITY, by Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, Tom Howes and Gary Brozek. (William Morrow)

19 HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Far-rar, Straus & Giroux)

20 WHEN MARCH WENT MAD, by Seth Davis. (Times)

21 A SLOBBERING LOVE AFFAIR, by Bernard Goldberg. (Regn-ery)

22 THE NEXT 100 YEARS, by George Friedman. (Doubleday)

23 MELTDOWN, by Thomas E. Woods Jr. (Regnery)

24 THE UNFORGIVING MINUTE, by Craig M. Mullaney. (Penguin Press)

25 THE BLACK SWAN, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. (Random House)

26 WHY WE SUCK, by Denis Leary. (Viking)

27 THE ASCENT OF MONEY, by Niall Ferguson. (Penguin Press)

28 IMAGINING INDIA, by Nandan Nilekani. (Penguin Press)

29 DEAD AID, by Dambisa Moyo. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

30 THE THIRD REICH AT WAR, by Richard J. Evans. (Penguin Press)

31 THE MIRROR EFFECT, by Drew Pinsky and S. Mark Young. (Harper)

32 THE RETURN OF DEPRESSION ECONOMICS AND THE CRISIS OF 2008, by Paul Krugman. (Norton)

33 THE GAMBLE, by Thomas E. Ricks. (Penguin Press)

34 OBAMA, with an introduction by Bill Keller and biographical text by Jill Abramson. (Callaway)

35 AS THEY SEE ‘EM, by Bruce Weber. (Scribner)

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Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending March 28, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indi-cates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not ac-tively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books.

This Week TRADE FICTION

451 THE SHACK, by William P. Young. (Windblown Media, $14.99.) A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God.(†)

122 FIREFLY LANE, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.95.) A friendship between two women in the Pacific Northwest en-dures for more than three decades as they make different choices in their lives.

173 THE READER, by Bernhard Schlink. (Vintage, $13.95.) A Ger-man high school student falls in love with a former Auschwitz employee.

74 AMERICAN WIFE, by Curtis Sittenfeld. (Random House, $15.) A pretty librarian marries the alcoholic scion of a wealthy political family who somehow becomes president.

125 SUNDAYS AT TIFFANY’S, by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet. (Grand Central, $13.99.) A woman finds an unex-pected love.

826 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin, $13.95.) A young man — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus.

187* A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini. (River-head, $16.) A friendship between two Afghan women against the backdrop of 30 years of war.

78 SARAH’S KEY, by Tatiana de Rosnay. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $13.95.) A contemporary American journalist investigates what happened to a little girl and her family during the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942.

809* THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne, $13.95.) A Spanish shepherd boy travels to Egypt in search of treasure.

1310 PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, by Geraldine Brooks. (Penguin, $15.) An expert unlocks the secrets of a rare manuscript.

3011 THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, by Junot Díaz. (Riverhead, $14.) A nerdy Dominican-American struggles to escape a family curse.

1212 STILL ALICE, by Lisa Genova. (Pocket, $15.) A 50-year-old Har-vard professor is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

1313 THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, by Muriel Barbery. (Europa, $15.) A young girl and a widowed concierge, both closet intellectuals, become friends.

1714* REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, by Richard Yates. (Vintage, $14.95.) Frank and April Wheeler, a beautiful young couple living in 1950s America, see their supposedly perfect life come undone.

2415 THE WHITE TIGER, by Aravind Adiga. (Free Press, $14.) A chauffeur in India relates the story of his transformation from manservant to entrepreneur to murderer; the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

5316 THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB, by Kate Jacobs. (Berkley, $14.) A group of women meet weekly at a New York City yarn shop.

417 LUSH LIFE, by Richard Price. (Picador, $15.) An aspiring writer becomes a suspect in a friend’s murder on the Lower East Side.

318 TAKE ONE, by Karen Kingsbury. (Zondervan, $14.99.) Christian filmmakers engage in a desperate attempt to keep their dream project from falling apart.

7819 THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $15.95 and $14.) An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared.

120 THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Anchor, $13.95.) In Botswana, a woman looks for an 11-year-old boy who may have been kidnapped by witch doc-tors.

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21 WORLD WITHOUT END, by Ken Follett. (New American Li-brary)

22 LOVING FRANK, by Nancy Horan. (Ballantine)

23 THE MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Anchor)

24 CHANGE OF HEART, by Jodi Picoult. (Washington Square)

25 THE WEDNESDAY LETTERS, by Jason F. Wright. (Berkley)

26 THE TEN-YEAR NAP, by Meg Wolitzer. (Riverhead)

27 THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, by Sue Monk Kidd. (Penguin)

28 OUT STEALING HORSES, by Per Petterson. (Picador)

29 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, by Vikas Swarup. (Scribner)

30 FIREPROOF, by Eric Wilson, Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kend-rick. (Thomas Nelson)

31 THE APPEAL, by John Grisham. (Delta)

32 MUDBOUND, by Hillary Jordan. (Algonquin)

33 THE THIRD ANGEL, by Alice Hoffman. (Three Rivers)

34 SEPULCHRE, by Kate Mosse. (Berkley)

35 BRIDA, by Paulo Coelho. (Harper Perennial)

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Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending March 28, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indi-cates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not ac-tively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books.

This Week MASS-MARKET FICTION

11 WHERE ARE YOU NOW?, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Pocket, $7.99.) A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared.

52 THE WHOLE TRUTH, by David Baldacci. (Vision, $9.99.) An in-telligence agent and a journalist team up against a warmongering defense contractor.

13* NOTHING TO LOSE, by Lee Child. (Dell, $9.99.) Jack Reacher exposes the secrets of a Colorado town.

14 THEN COMES SEDUCTION, by Mary Balogh. (Dell, $6.99.) London’s most notorious rake bets he can seduce the virtuous Katherine Huxtable within a fortnight.

45 HOLD TIGHT, by Harlan Coben. (Signet, $9.99.) The aftermath of a New Jersey high school kid’s suicide.

16 DEADLY DESIRE, by Keri Arthur. (Bantam Spectra, $6.99.) Riley Jensen tracks a new villain while juggling passions for her vampire lover and a rogue wolf.

57 BONES, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $9.99.) The psychol-ogist-detective Alex Delaware is called in when women’s bodies turn up in a Los Angeles marsh.

58 PLAGUE SHIP, by Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul. (Berkley, $9.99.) Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Ore gon must determine what happened on a cruise ship full of dead bodies.

79* ANGELS AND DEMONS, by Dan Brown. (Pocket, $9.99.) A scholar tries to save the Vatican from the machinations of an un-derground society.

110 SUDDEN DEATH, by Allison Brennan. (Ballantine, $7.99.) An F.B.I. agent and a soldier-for-hire become entangled, profession-ally and romantically, while investigating a series of killings.

1911 THE APPEAL, by John Grisham. (Dell, $7.99.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court rules against a company accused of dumping toxic waste.

512 THE GRAND FINALE, by Janet Evanovich. (Harper/Harper-Collins, $7.99.) In this reissue of a 1988 novel, a woman grabs the attention of a hunky man when she falls out of a tree and onto his pizza.

113 A HUSBAND’S WICKED WAYS, by Jane Feather. (Pocket Star, $7.99.) A spymaster proposes marriage to a lady, as cover, as he tries to expose Spanish spies who have infiltrated Regency London society.

514 LOST SOULS, by Lisa Jackson. (Zebra, $7.99.) An aspiring true-crime writer investigates the disappearance of four girls at All Saints College and begins to realize she’s being stalked herself.

515 THE MACKADE BROTHERS: RAFE AND JARED, by Nora Roberts. (Silhouette, $7.99.) A reissue of two stories, featuring a pair of rebels in Antietam, Md.

416 DANGER IN A RED DRESS, by Christina Dodd. (Signet, $7.99.) A woman on the Maine coast, entrusted with a deathbed secret, winds up being pursued by killers, and only Gabriel Prescott can save her.

617 THE READER, by Bernhard Schlink. (Vintage, $7.99.) A German high school student falls in love with a former Auschwitz employ-ee.

518* MONTANA CREEDS: DYLAN, by Linda Lael Miller. (HQN, $7.99.) In this second book of a trilogy, “rodeo’s bad boy” returns home and sets hearts aflutter.

419 SMALL FAVOR, by Jim Butcher. (Roc, $9.99.) Book 10 of the Dresden Files series about a wizard detective in Chicago.

120 BUCKINGHAM PALACE GARDENS, by Anne Perry. (Ballant-ine, $7.99.) The 19th-century sleuth Thomas Pitt investigates after a dead prostitute is found in the royal linen closet.

Weeks On List MASS-MARKET FICTION EXTENDED

21 LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace)

22 SECRETS, by Jude Deveraux. (Pocket)

23 HIGHLAND SCOUNDREL, by Monica McCarty. (Ballantine)

24 CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC, by Sophie Kinsella. (Dell)

25 HONOR THYSELF, by Danielle Steel. (Dell)

26 MAVERICK, by Lora Leigh. (St. Martin’s)

27 TERMINATOR SALVATION - FROM THE ASHES, by Timo-thy Zahn. (Titan)

28 BLACK WIDOW, by Randy Wayne White. (Berkley)

29 THE WAY OF SHADOWS, by Brent Weeks. (Orbit)

30 DEAD UNTIL DARK, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace)

31 THE FIRST APOSTLE, by James Becker. (Signet)

32 TEMPTATION RIDGE, by Robyn Carr. (Mira)

33 SHADOW COMMAND, by Dale Brown. (Harper/HarperCol-lins)

34 FIRST COMES MARRIAGE, by Mary Balogh. (Dell)

35 REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, by Richard Yates. (Vintage)

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Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending March 28, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indi-cates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not ac-tively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books.

This Week NONFICTION

1131 THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin, $15.) A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

142 THE MIDDLE PLACE, by Kelly Corrigan. (Voice, $14.95.) A woman’s struggle with cancer, her own and her father’s, helps her gain a new maturity.

783 I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max. (Cita-del/Kensington, $15.95.) Life as a self- absorbed, drunken woman-izer.

1144 EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Penguin, $15.) A writer’s yearlong journey in search of self.

1415 DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, by Barack Obama. (Three Riv-ers, $14.95.) Obama on life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother.

2346* THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95.) A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.

1277 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. (Revell, $12.99.) A minister on the other worldly experience he had after an accident.

248 MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler. (Bloomsbury, $14.95.) A memoir of one-night stands.

669* THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama. (Three Rivers, $14.95;, Vintage, $7.99.) The president proposes that Americans move beyond political divisions.

310 EMERGENCY, by Neil Strauss. (Harper, $16.99.) Life on what might be the verge of apocalypse.

311 THE SOLOIST, by Steve Lopez. (Berkley, $15.) A columnist for The Los Angeles Times meets a homeless musician on Skid Row and sets out to change his life.

7612 BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $15.99.) The importance of instinct to the workings of the mind.

2413 SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME, by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent. (Nelson, $14.99.) The unlikely friendship between a homeless drifter and a successful art dealer who meet at a shelter in Texas.

3514 TEAM OF RIVALS, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. (Simon & Schus-ter, $21.) The political genius of Abraham Lincoln.

8015* THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, $16.) Tracking food from soil to plate.

5516 MARLEY & ME, by John Grogan. (Harper, $13.95 and $7.99.) Lessons learned from a neurotic dog.

2017* THE FORGOTTEN MAN, by Amity Shlaes. (Harper Perennial, $15.95.) A reinterpretation of the New Deal and the Great Depres-sion.

2918 THE GOD DELUSION, by Richard Dawkins. (Mariner, $15.95.) An Oxford scientist asserts that belief in God is irrational.

2819 A WHOLE NEW MIND, by Daniel H. Pink. (Riverhead, $15.) Why right-brainers — conceptual, creative types — will rule the future.

1920 CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, CHANGE YOUR LIFE, by Daniel G. Amen. (Three Rivers, $15.) Instructions for conquering anxiety, depression and anger.

Weeks On List NONFICTION EXTENDED

21 ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE, by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. (Harper Perennial)

22 THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE, by Diane Ackerman. (Norton)

23 STORI TELLING, by Tori Spelling. (Simon Spotlight Entertain-ment)

24 INFIDEL, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. (Free Press)

25 STOLEN INNOCENCE, by Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer. (Harp-er)

26 A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Far-rar, Straus & Giroux)

27 NUDGE, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein. (Penguin)

28 LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. (Back Bay/Little, Brown)

29 THE MATCH, by Mark Frost. (Hyperion)

30 THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Picador)

31 THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF, by Norman Doidge. (Penguin)

32 BEAUTIFUL BOY, by David Sheff. (Mariner)

33 GANG LEADER FOR A DAY, by Sudhir Venkatesh. (Penguin)

34 THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY, by A. J. Jacobs. (Simon & Schuster)

35 THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS, by Eric Weiner. (Twelve)

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Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous

April 12, 2009Copyright © 2009by The New York Times

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending March 28, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of indepen-dent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some book-stores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books.

This Week HARDCOVER

91 ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN, by Steve Harvey with Denene Millner. (Amistad/HarperCollins, $23.99.) Relation-ship tips from the comedian and host of “The Steve Harvey Morn-ing Show.”

512 THE LAST LECTURE, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. (Hyperion, $21.95.) Thoughts on “seizing every moment” from Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon professor who died of pancreatic can-cer at age 47.

13 THE SKINNY, by Louis J. Aronne with Alisa Bowman. (Broad-way, $24.95.) A medical doctor’s diet and exercise tips, with reci-pes, for weight loss without hunger.

1164 THE SECRET, by Rhonda Byrne. (Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95.) The law of attraction as a key to getting what you want.

195 FLAT BELLY DIET!, by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass. (Rodale, $25.95.) Nutrition advice and workout tips from the edi-tors of Prevention magazine.

36 PEAKS AND VALLEYS, by Spencer Johnson. (Atria, $19.95.) Making both good and bad times work for you personally and pro-fessionally.

107 THE TOTAL MONEY MAKEOVER, by Dave Ramsey. (Nelson, $24.99.) Attaining financial fitness, not through quick fixes but with an honest approach to the way you handle money.

68 THE ULTRAMIND SOLUTION, by Mark Hyman. (Scribner, $27.50.) How to pinpoint underlying biological problems to im-prove brain performance and allay depression, anxiety and more.

99 UNCOMMON, by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker. (Tyndale, $24.99.) The former coach of the Indianapolis Colts discourses on living “a life of significance.”

210 WWE ENCYCLOPEDIA, by Brian Shields and Kevin Sullivan. (DK, $45.) A reference guide to World Wrestling Entertainment.

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HARDCOVER EXTENDED

11 BAREFOOT CONTESSA BACK TO BASICS, by Ina Garten. (Clarkson Potter)

12 NEVER GIVE UP, by Joyce Meyer. (FaithWords)

13 MAGNIFICENT MIND AT ANY AGE, by Daniel G. Amen. (Harmony)

14 THE GREAT DEPRESSION AHEAD, by Harry S. Dent Jr. (Free Press)

15 FRACTAL TIME, by Gregg Braden. (Hay House)

This Week PAPERbACK 271 THE LOVE DARE, by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with Law-

rence Kimbrough. (B&H, $14.99.) A 40-day challenge for spouses who want to practice unconditional love.(†)

4042 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel. (Workman, $14.95.) Advice for par-ents-to-be.(†)

33 NATURALLY THIN, by Bethenny Frankel with Eve Adamson. (Fireside, $16.) Rules and recipes for escaping the diet trap, from a star of “The Real Housewives of New York City.”

874* THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (North-field, $13.99.) How to communicate love in a way a spouse will understand.

635 THE POWER OF NOW, by Eckhart Tolle. (New World Library, $14.) A guide to personal growth and spiritual enlightenment.

906 SKINNY BITCH, by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. (Run-ning Press, $13.95.) Vegan diet advice from the world of modeling.

137 SUZE ORMAN’S 2009 ACTION PLAN, by Suze Orman. (Spiegel & Grau, $9.99.) Managing your money in hard times.

248 TWILIGHT, by Mark Cotta Vaz. (Little, Brown, $16.99.) A behind-the-scenes look at the film based on the vampire romance for young adults by Stephenie Meyer.

19 I WILL TEACH YOU TO BE RICH, by Ramit Sethi. (Workman, $13.95.) A six-week program for personal-finance literacy, with guidance on bank accounts, credit cards, student loans and more.(†)

310 THE BIGGEST LOSER 30-DAY JUMP START, by Cheryl Forberg, Melissa Roberson, Lisa Wheeler and others. (Rodale, $21.95.) Experts and contestants from the “Biggest Loser” TV show share weight-loss advice.

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11 THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE, by Rick Warren. (Zondervan)

12 THE BIGGEST LOSER FAMILY COOKBOOK, by Devin Alex-ander with Melissa Roberson. (Rodale)

13 A NEW EARTH, by Eckhart Tolle. (Plume)

14 HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU, by Greg Behr endt and Liz Tuccillo. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)

15 BROKEN OPEN, by Elizabeth Lesser. (Villard)

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This Week PICTURE bOOKS

101 LISTEN TO THE WIND: THE STORY OF DR. GREG AND “THREE CUPS OF TEA”, by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth. (Dial, $16.99.) A school grows in Pakistan. (Ages 4 to 8)

82 THE HOUSE IN THE NIGHT, by Susan Marie Swanson. Illus-trated by Beth Krommes. (Houghton Mifflin, $17.) A key, a bed, a book, a light, the moon. (Ages 4 to 8)

33 BLUEBERRY GIRL, by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Charles Vess. (HarperCollins, $17.99.) A book of wishes, addressed to a daughter. (All ages)

24 THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR, written and illustrated by Eric Carle. (Philomel, $29.99.) Still hungry after 40 years. A pop-up book. (Ages 3 and up)

725 GALLOP!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. (Work-man, $12.95.) Animals seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 4 to 8)

126 NAKED MOLE RAT GETS DRESSED, written and illustrated by Mo Willems. (Disney-Hyperion, $16.99.) The rodent as indi-vidualist. (Ages 3 and up)

47 THE COMPOSER IS DEAD, by Lemony Snicket. Illustrated by Carson Ellis. Music by Nathaniel Stookey. (HarperCollins, $17.99.) A whodunit tour of the orchestra, with audio. (Ages 9 to 12)

48 LADYBUG GIRL AND BUMBLEBEE BOY, by David Soman and Jacky Davis. Illustrated by David Soman. (Dial, $16.99.) A dynamic duo’’s play-date. (Ages 3 to 5)

249 SWING!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. (Work-man, $12.95.) Children seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 4 to 8)

710 CAT, written by Matthew Van Fleet and photographed by Brian Stanton. (Wiseman/Simon & Schuster, $16.99.) All kinds of cats, in motion and rhyme. (Ages 2 and up)

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21 TWILIGHT: DIRECTOR’S NOTEBOOK, by Catherine Hard-wicke. (Little, Brown, $17.99.) The making of “Twilight,” the movie. (Ages 9 to 12)

262 THE GRAVEYARD BOOK, written by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Dave McKean. (HarperCollins, $17.99.) To avoid a killer, a young boy lives in a cemetery. (Ages 10 and up)

43 MILES TO GO, by Miley Cyrus. (Disney-Hyperion, $24.95.) The life of Miley Cyrus. (Ages 9 to 12)

14 STARGAZER, by Claudia Gray. (HarperTeen, $16.99.) Vampire love in school. (Ages 12 and up)

235 THIRTEEN REASONS WHY, by Jay Asher. (Razorbill, $16.99.) Before committing suicide a girl records and sends explanatory audiotapes to 13 people. (Ages 14 and up)

296 THE HUNGER GAMES, by Suzanne Collins. (Scholastic, $17.99.) In a dystopian future, a girl fights for survival on live TV. (Ages 12 and up)

27 WINTERGIRLS, by Laurie Halse Anderson. (Viking, $17.99.) A life-and-death story of anorexia. (Ages 12 and up)

28 CHRISTIAN THE LION, by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall. (Delacorte, $14.99.) The book reissued and adapted for children after a YouTube video attracted millions of hits. (Ages 9 to 12)

99 SCAT, by Carl Hiaasen. (Random House, $16.99.) An eco-mystery, with a dismal swamp and a cast of wild characters who are not always what they seem. (Ages 9 to 12)

710 FADE, by Lisa McMann. (Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster, $15.99.) Nightmares haunt Janie the dream-hopper. (Ages 14 and up)

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81 EVERMORE, by Alyson Noël. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $9.95.) Im-mortals in school. (Ages 12 and up)

812 THE BOOK THIEF, by Markus Zusak. (Knopf, $11.99.) A girl saves books from Nazi burning and shares them with a Jewish man in hiding. (Ages 14 and up)

213 THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS, by John Boyne. (Random House, $8.99.) A boy’s innocence is eroded in evil times. (Ages 12 and up)

104 THREE CUPS OF TEA: YOUNG READERS EDITION, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Puffin, $8.99.) A former climber builds schools in Pakistani and Afghan villages. (Ages 9 to 12)

105 TWEAK, by Nic Sheff. (Atheneum, $9.99.) The addiction memoir of the “Beautiful Boy.” (Ages 14 and up)

116 CORALINE, by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Dave McKean. (HarperFestival, $6.99.) A movie tie-in. (Ages 9 to 12)

327 THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY, by Trenton Lee Stewart. Illustrated by Carson Ellis. (Megan Tingley/Little, Brown, $6.99.) Gifted kids on a mission. (Ages 9 to 12)

18 THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME IN-DIAN, written by Sherman Alexie. Illustrated by Ellen Forney. (Little, Brown, $8.99.) A boy leaves his reservation for an all-white school. (Ages 12 and up)

619 THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX, by Kate DiCamillo. Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering. (Candlewick, $7.99.) A mouse, a rat and a girl on a magic trip. (Ages 10 and up)

2210 SLAM, by Nick Hornby. (Riverhead, $14.) A skateboarder gets his girlfriend pregnant. What would Tony Hawk do? (Ages 12 and up)

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861 THE TWILIGHT SAGA, by Stephenie Meyer. (Megan Tingley/Little, Brown, hardcover and paper) Vampires and werewolves in high school. (Ages 12 and up)

112 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, written and illustrated by Jeff Kin-ney. (Abrams, hardcover only) A boy records the hazards of ado-lescent life. (Ages 9 to 12)

313 HOUSE OF NIGHT, by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast. (St. Martin’s, hardcover and paper) Vampires in school. (Ages 14 and up)

14 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS, by Cassandra Clare. (McElderry/Simon & Schuster, hardcover and paper) A girl battles the forces of darkness. (Ages 14 and up)

475 MAXIMUM RIDE, by James Patterson. (Little Brown, hard-cover and paper) Winged children try to save the world. (Ages 10 and up)

56 FABLEHAVEN, by Brandon Mull. (Shadow Mountain/Aladdin, hardcover and paperback) Evil is afoot in a sanctuary for magical creatures. (Ages 9 to 12)

47 THE 39 CLUES, by various authors. (Scholastic, hardcover only) A brother and sister travel the world in search of the key to their family’s power. (Ages 9 to 12)

2048 MAGIC TREE HOUSE, by Mary Pope Osborne. Illustrated by Sal Murdocca. (Stepping Stone/Random House, hardcover and paper) Winged children try to save the world. (Ages 6 to 9)

179 NIGHT WORLD, by L. J. Smith. (Simon Pulse, paper only) Su-pernatural races form secret societies. (Ages 14 and up)

21710 HARRY POTTER, by J. K. Rowling. (Arthur A. Levine/Scholas-tic, hardcover and paper) A young wizard hones his skills while fighting evil. (Ages 10 and up)

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HUMAN SMOKE: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, by Nicholson Baker. (Simon & Schuster, $16.) Baker, pictured below, the author of seven novels, turns an unorthodox hand to history in this pacifist interpretation of the events leading to World War II. Vignettes, each containing a fact or quotation from one of the main participants or from someone’s diary, develop Baker’s themes: British and American racism and the missed opportunities to keep those countries out of war with Germany. He makes a “conscien-tious contribution to the debate about pacifism,” our reviewer, Colm Toibin, said, calling the book “an eloquent and passionate assault on the idea that the deliberate targeting of civilians can ever be justified.” Baker might recognize Alfred Day, the protagonist of A. L. Kennedy’s fifth novel, DAY (Vintage, $14.95). He is a depressed former R.A.F. tail gunner and German-held P.O.W. who returns to Germany to confront his demons. This excellently written novel reveals “the ways war can damage both its victims and its victors nearly beyond re-pair,” Francine Prose wrote in the Book Review.

SHAKESPEARE’S WIFE, by Germaine Greer. (Harper Perennial, $14.99.) Greer, the author of “The Female Eunuch,” who earned a doctorate in Eliza-bethan drama at Newnham College, Cambridge, has “both a polemicist’s vision and a scholar’s patience,” our reviewer, Katie Roiphe, said. In this “lively, rigorous, fiercely imagined” book, she shows how little evidence there is for earlier (read: male) biographers’ assumptions about Ann Hatha-way and the Shakespeares’ unhappy marriage.

THE PAINTER OF BATTLES, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. (Random House, $14.) In this novel — one of the top 10 international best sellers for 2006 — a Croatian soldier immortalized in a photograph taken just

before the battle of Vukovar in 1991 shows up at the home of the now-retired Spanish photographer and threatens to kill him. He describes the hardship that befell him as a result of becoming “the face of defeat” — Serbian torture, the murder of his wife and son — in this intellectual thriller.

THE CRAFTSMAN, by Richard Sennett. (Yale Uni-versity, $18.) “Making is thinking,” Sennett writes, and in this ambitious book, he explores what he calls “the link between hand and head” among the practitioners of several crafts. Seeking to rescue the “working human animal” from scholarly contempt, he argues that craftsmen are the symbols of the Enlightenment, who learn through dialogue with the material world how to develop an “intelligent hand.”

THE END OF THE JEWS, by Adam Mansbach. (Spiegel & Grau, $14.) A grandfather and grandson, both writers, borrow from each other’s experience in this smart and cynical novel. Other forms of bor-rowing — the appeal of African-American music for the Jewish grandson, the give-and-take of artistic partnership — are also explored.

FOUNDING FAITH: How Our Founding Fathers Forged a Radical New Approach to Religious Liberty, by Steven Waldman. (Random House, $16.) America’s national origins are neither Christian, as some insist, nor secular, as others claim. Rather, Waldman, a founder of Beliefnet.com, writes as he makes a full and fair survey of the founders’ reli-gious views, their faith “was religious liberty — a revolutionary formula for promoting faith by leav-ing it alone.”

FROM HARVEY RIVER: A Memoir of My Moth-er and Her Island, by Lorna Goodison. (Amistad/HarperCollins, $13.99.) This loving memoir describes

Goodison’s mother, a matriarch known as Mama Goodie, and her extended family as well as the history of Jamaica. The village of Harvey River, named for her great-grandfather, an Englishman, would “shape my imagination for the rest of my life,” Goodison, a poet, recalls.

FUGITIVE DENIM: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, by Rachel Louise Snyder. (Norton, $16.95.) Pants labeled “Made in Peru,” Snyder writes, “might have cotton from Texas, weaving from North Carolina, cutting and sewing from Lima, washing and finishing from Mexico City, and dis-tribution from Los Angeles.” In this accessible and lively book, she uses the jeans industry to examine issues of agriculture, free trade, environmental safety and workers’ lives.

SOMEBODY SCREAM!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power, by Marcus Reeves. (Faber & Faber, $16.) Beginning in 1971 and ending with Eminem, this readable history of hip-hop emerges from the stories of a dozen cel-ebrated acts and their sociopolitical context.

BASTARD TONGUES: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World’s Lowliest Languages, by Derek Bickerton. (Hill & Wang, $16.) Bickerton has been studying pid-gins and Creoles for four decades. In this entertain-ing memoir, he describes both his career and his search for an explanation of the origins of Creole languages. “The evidence from bastard tongues shows beyond doubt that a major part of language learning comes from the brain rather than experi-ence,” he concludes.

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THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL BECKETT. Volume I: 1929-1940. Edited by Martha Dow Fehsen-feld and Lois More Overbeck. (Cambridge University, $50.) The publication of the letters, both brilliant and humanly forthcoming, is an elating cultural moment.

JUDAS: A Biography, by Susan Gubar. (Norton, $27.95.) A rich account of the ways — many grim and nauseat-ing — that the Christian imagination has vented its wrath on the disciple who betrayed Jesus.

TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH: Stories, by Kevin Wilson. (Ecco/Harper Perennial, pa-per, $13.99.) Things explode in Wilson’s stories: parents, body parts, cows, emotions, expectations.

LICENTIOUS GOTHAM: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York, by Donna Dennis. (Harvard University, $29.95.) A Rutgers law professor examines the so-called fancy books and flash papers that thrived in the era. THE FORBIDDEN APPLE: A Century of Sex and Sin in New York City, by Kat Long. (Ig, $18.95.) Less a catalog of vice than an analysis of attempts to evade its suppression, from the Gilded Age to Giuliani’s ’90s.

A DAUGHTER’S LOVE: Thomas More and His Dear-est Meg, by John Guy. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30.) The Catholic martyr and his remarkably accomplished eldest daughter, considered as a pair.

DEAR HUSBAND, by Joyce Carol Oates. (Ecco/ HarperCollins, $24.99.) These 14 noirish narratives imply that American family life is no protection against the horrors lurking a block, a click, a phone call away.

THE GLISTER, by John Burnside. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $22.95.) In this novel, teenage boys start vanishing in the infected woods of a Scottish town.

THE MISSING, by Tim Gautreaux. (Knopf, $25.95.) As a child, Gautreaux’s protagonist survived his family’s massacre, and now he searches for a missing girl.

The full reviews of these and other recent books are on the Web: nytimes.com/books.