New York Times Best Sellers List

May 11, 2008

Hardcover

FICTION

1. The Whole Truth. David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $26.99.) An intelligence agent and a journalist team against a warmongering defense contractor.

2.Hold Tight. Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $26.95.) The aftermath of a high school kid's suicide rocks a New Jersey suburb.

3. The Miracle at Speedy Motors. Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $22.95.) The ninth novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

4. Unaccustomed Earth. Jhumpa Lahiri. (Knopf, $25.) Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children.

5. Where Are You Now? Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who has disappeared.

6. Certain Girls. Jennifer Weiner. (Atria, $26.95.) A girl rediscovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier.

7. Quicksand. Iris Johansen. (St. Martin's, $26.95.) The forensic sculptor Even Duncan tracks a killer who claims to have murdered her daughter years earlier.

8. Dead Heat. Joel C. Rosenberg. (Tyndale, $24.99.) With the world on the brink of war, terrorists plot to assassinate a candidate in a closely fought presidential election.

9. The Appeal. John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a company accused of dumping toxic waste.

10. Santa Fe Dead. Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) A Santa Fe lawyer investigates his nefarious former wife.

NONFICTION

1.Are You there, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea. Chelsea Handler. (Simon Spotlight, $24.95.) Humorous personal essays from the stand-up comedian.

2. Escape. Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer. (Broadway, $24.95.) A former member of a fundamentalist polygamous sect describes her forced marriage to a much older man.

3.Home. Julie Andrews. (Hyperion, $26.95.) A memoir of Andrews' early years, from birth to being cast as Mary Poppins.

4. Beautiful Boy. David Sheff. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) A father struggles with his son's meth addiction.

5. Mistaken Identity. Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb. (Howard, $21.95.) The families of two girls whose identities were confused after a 2006 accident describe their experience.

6.Ladies of Liberty. Cokie Roberts. (Morrow, $26.95.) The influential women of early America.