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By the numbers: Bestsellers

02:18 PM CST on Monday, February 19, 2007

This week's list of local bestsellers is from Jokae's African American Books, 3223 W. Camp Wisdom Road. National best-sellers are from The New York Times. For BookSense best-sellers from the American Booksellers Association, see www.booksense.com/bestsellers. Parentheses indicate book's position last week; indicates first week on list.

LOCAL

HARDBACK FICTION

1. Love & Lies, by Kimberla Lawson Roby
2. The First Lady, by Carl Weber
3. Do You Take This Woman?, by RM Johnson
4. She Ain't the One, by Carl Weber and Mary B. Morrison
5. When Somebody Loves You Back, by Mary B. Morrison
6. Guilty Pleasures, by Donna Hill
7. Satin Nights, by Karen Quinones Miller
8. Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns, by J. California Cooper
9. Red River, by Lalita Tademy
10. One Night Stand, by Roland Jefferson

HARDBACK NONFICTION

1. The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
2. What I Know for Sure, by Tavis Smiley as told to David Ritz
3. Enough, by Juan Williams
4. Friends: A Love Story, by Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance with Hilary Beard
5. Finding Oprah's Roots, by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
6. A Piece of Cake, by Cupcake Brown
7. There Comes a Time: The Struggle for Civil Rights, by Milton Meltzer
8. The Senator and the Socialite, by Lawrence Otis Graham
9. Come Hell or High Water, by Michael Eric Dyson
10. Letters to a Young Brother, by Hill Harper

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Rooftop Diva, by D.T. Pollard
2. The Ex Files, by Victoria Christopher Murray
3. Divine Confidential, by Jacquelin Thomas
4. In Another Man's Bed, by Francis Ray
5. Farther Than I Meant to Go, Longer Than I Meant to Stay, by Tiffany Warren

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. The Legal Navigator, by Bobbie Edmonds
2. The Pursuit of Happyness, by Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe
3. Put On Your Crown, by Sheron Patterson
4. The Covenant With Black America, edited by Tavis Smiley
5. Daily Motivations for African-American Success, by Dennis Kimbro
NATIONAL

HARDBACK FICTION

1. (1) Plum Lovin', by Janet Evanovich
2. (2) For One More Day, by Mitch Albom
3. (–) The Alexandria Link, by Steve Berry
4. (3) Cross, by James Patterson
5. (10) Hannibal Rising, by Thomas Harris
6. (5) The Castle in the Forest, by Norman Mailer
7. (–) Deep Storm, by Lincoln Child
8. (4) White Lies, by Jayne Ann Krentz
9. (–) Hide, by Lisa Gardner
10. (–) Star Wars: Allegiance, by Timothy Zahn

HARDBACK NONFICTION

1. (1) The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
2. (–) Born On a Blue Day, by Daniel Tammet
3. (2) Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, by Jimmy Carter
4. (3) The Innocent Man, by John Grisham
5. (6) Power, Faith, and Fantasy, by Michael B. Oren
6. (7) I Feel Bad About My Neck, by Nora Ephron
7. (4) Marley & Me, by John Grogan
8. (8) The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
9. (9) The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman
10. (–) Culture Warrior, by Bill O'Reilly

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. (1) The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards
2. (–) Irish Dreams, by Nora Roberts
3. (–) Most Likely to Die, by Lisa Jackson, Wendy Corsi Staub and Beverly Barton
4. (2) Honeymoon, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
5. (–) McKettrick's Luck, by Linda Lael Miller

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. (1) The Measure of a Man, by Sidney Poitier
2. (2) The Freedom Writers Diary, by the Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell
3. (3) The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
4. (5) Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama
5. (–) The Seat of the Soul, by Gary Zukav
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