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Best Sellers

April 17, 2011

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Howard Schultz

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By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER

Starbucks may be struggling to regain its glory days, but the company’s chief executive, Howard Schultz, is on top of the hardcover nonfiction list.

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1 THE LAND OF THE PAINTED CAVES, by Jean M. Auel. (Crown.) The latest volume in a series that began with “The Clan of the Cave Bear,” set during the ice age. 1
2 LOVER UNLEASHED, by J. R. Ward. (Penguin Group.) Book 9 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. 1
3 2 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin.) After his parents die in a car accident, a young veterinary student — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus. 10
4 3 THE LINCOLN LAWYER, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown.) Routinely doing business from his Lincoln Town Cars, the bottom-feeding attorney Mickey Haller is asked to defend the scion of a wealthy family who might not be guilty of a murderous crime. 4
5 MYSTERY, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Random House.) The Los Angeles psychologist-detective Alex Delaware and the detective Milo Sturgis work on a grisly homicide case. 1
6 1 LIVE WIRE, by Harlan Coben. (Penguin Group.) Myron Bolitar’s search for a missing rock star leads to questions about his own missing brother. 2
7 5 TOYS, by James Patterson and Neil McMahon. (Little, Brown.) Hays Baker, a top operative for the Agency of Change and a national hero, suddenly finds himself a hunted fugitive who must fight to save humans from extinction. 3
8 4 SING YOU HOME, by Jodi Picoult. (Simon & Schuster.) Picoult takes on the issue of gay rights in this novel about a music therapist who desperately wants a child. 5
9 6 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday.) The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist. 10
10 11 LOVE YOU MORE, by Lisa Gardner. (Random House.) Detective D. D. Warren must solve the case of a dead husband, a battered wife and a missing child. 4
11 THE DARKEST SECRET, by Gena Showalter. (Harlequin.) Amun, a tormented immortal warrior, meets a demon-assassin whose beauty draws him into a reckless test of his loyalty. 1
12 15 THE PARIS WIFE, by Paula McLain. (Random House.) Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley, narrates this novel set in Paris. 4
13 HOME FREE, by Fern Michaels. (Kensington.) The president’s plan to form a top-secret organization means a new beginning for the crime-fighting Sisterhood. 1
14 10 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress 40 years earlier; the first volume in the Millennium trilogy. 10
15 THE TROUBLED MAN, by Henning Mankell. (Knopf Doubleday.) In the final volume in the Kurt Wallander series, the Swedish detective searches for a missing retired naval officer. 1

Also Selling

  1. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson (Knopf Doubleday)
  2. CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese (Knopf Doubleday)
  3. VAMPIRE MINE, by Kerrelyn Sparks (HarperCollins)
  4. THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE, by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)
  5. THE JUNGLE, by Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul (Penguin Group)
  6. DRIFTWOOD COTTAGE, by Sherryl Woods (Harlequin)
  7. NIGHT ROAD, by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's)
  8. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett (Penguin Group)
  9. CAUGHT, by Harlan Coben (Penguin Group)
  10. SWEET VALLEY CONFIDENTIAL, by Francine Pascal (St. Martin’s)
  11. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, by Deborah Harkness (Penguin Group)
  12. DEAD IN THE FAMILY, by Charlaine Harris (Penguin Group)
  13. A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin (Random House)
  14. TICK TOCK, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)
  15. DEVIOUS, by Lisa Jackson (Kensington)
  16. INDULGENCE IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb (Penguin Group)
  17. THE TIGER’S WIFE, by Tea Obreht (Random House)
  18. THE SATURDAY BIG TENT WEDDING PARTY, by Alexander McCall Smith (Knopf Doubleday)
  19. MINDING FRANKIE, by Maeve Binchy (Knopf Doubleday)
  20. ETERNAL RIDER, by Larissa Ione (Grand Central)
About the Best Sellers

These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 17, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 2, 2011.

Rankings reflect weekly sales for books sold in both print and electronic formats as reported by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. The sales venues for print books include independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket and discount department stores; and newsstands. E-book rankings reflect sales from leading online vendors of e-books in a variety of popular e-reader formats.

E-book sales are tracked for fiction and general nonfiction titles. E-book sales for advice & how-to books, children’s books and graphic books will be tracked at a future date. Titles are included regardless of whether they are published in both print and electronic formats or just one format. E-books available exclusively from a single vendor will be tracked at a future date.

The universe of print book dealers is well established, and sales of print titles are statistically weighted to represent all outlets nationwide. The universe of e-book publishers and vendors is rapidly emerging, and until the industry is settled sales of e-books will not be weighted.

Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, comics, crossword puzzles and self-published books.

The appearance of a ranked title reflects the fact that sales data from reporting vendors has been provided to The Times and has satisfied commonly accepted industry standards of universal identification (such as ISBN13 and EISBN13 codes). Publishers and vendors of all ranked titles conformed in timely fashion to The New York Times Best Seller Lists requirement to allow for independent corroboration of sales for that week.

Publisher credits for e-books are listed under the corporate publishing name instead of by publisher’s division.

Weekly sales of both print books and e-books are reported confidentially to The New York Times. The Best Seller Lists are prepared by the News Surveys and Election Analysis Department of The New York Times. Royalty Share, a firm that provides accounting services to publishers, is assisting The Times in its corroboration of e-book sales.

An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

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