2006 Bestsellers List

Nonfiction

The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life 
RC 59337
by David Zinczenko
Diet and Nutrition

American Solider RC 59174
by Tommy Franks
U.S. History

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior   
RC 59860
by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Animals and Wildlife

Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth about the First Year of Mommyhood   
RC 60589
by Jenny McCarthy
Family

Between a Rock and Hard Place   
RC 58934
by Aron Ralston
Adventure

Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking   
RC 60186
by Malcolm Gladwell
Psychology and Self-Help

Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy   
RC 59522
by Lindsay Moran
Government and Politics

By Myself and then Some  
RC 60081
by Lauren Bacall
Stage and Screen

The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror   
RC 59921
by Natan Sharansky
Government and Politics

Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib   
RC 59238
by Seymour M. Hersh
U.S. History

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed   
RC 59909
by Jared Diamond
World History

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man   
RC 60331
by John Perkins
Business and Economics

Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeny's Humor Category   
RC 59397
edited by Dave Eggers and Suzanne Kleid
Humor

A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation   
RC 60149
by Catherine Crier
Crime

Disney War   
RC 59700
by James B. Stewart
Business and Economics

Down Came the Rain   
RC 60414
by Brooke Shields
Medicine and Health and Women's Concerns

Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation   
RC 58442
by Lynne Truss
Language

The FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS   
RC 60683
by Neal Boortz and John Linder
Government and Politics

Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicles the Historic 2004 Season   
RC 59376
by Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King
Sports and Recreation

The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty   
RC 58938
by Kitty Kelley
Government and Politics

Favre   
RC 60140
by Brett Favre and Bonita Favre
Sport and Recreation

Fifty Years of Great Writing: Sports Illustrated 1954-2004   
RC 59562
edited by Rob Fleder
Sports and Recreation

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything   
RC 60337
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Business and Economics

French Women Don't Get Fat   
RC 59698
by Mireille Guiliano
Diet and Nutrition

The Games Do Count: America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sports   
RC 59558
by Brian Kilmeade
Sports and Recreation

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise   
RC 60333
by Ruth Reichl
Cooking

God's Politics: Why the Right Get It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It   
RC 59930
by Jim Wallis
Government and Politics

The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf   
RC 60103
by Mark Frost
Sports and Recreation

Hallelujah!  The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes   
RC 59469
by Maya Angelou
Cooking

His Excellency: George Washington   
RC 59070
by Joseph J. Ellis
U. S. History

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World according to Ann Coulter   
RC 59332
by Ann Coulter
Government and Politics

Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror   
RC 59171
by Michael Scheuer
War

Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia   
RC 58828
by Carmen Bin Ladin
Social Sciences

Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big   
RC 60020
by Jose Canseco
Sports and Recreation

Kiss Me, Kill Me: And Other True Cases; Ann Rule's Crime Files, Volume 9   
RC 59525
by Ann Rule
Crime

The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul   
RC 59396
by Phil Jackson
Sports and Recreation

Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life   
RC 59328
by Clay Aiken
Music

A Lotus Grows in the Mud   
RC 60332
by Goldie Hawn
Stage and Screen

Magical Thinking: True Stories   
RC 59479
by Augusten Burroughs
Biography

A Man without a Country   
RC 61197
by Kurt Vonnegut
Literature

Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America   
RC 59952
by Mark R. Levin
Legal Issues

Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man   
RC 59289
by David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke
Stage and Screen

The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous, and Broke   
RC 60072
by Suze Orman
Business and Economics and Consumerism

My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on 
Terror
RC 61122
by Louis J. Freeh
Government and Politics

My Friend Leonard   
RC 60636
by James Frey
Biography

My Life So Far   
RC 59956
by Jane Fonda
Stage and Screen

Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt for the BTK Strangler   
RC 60180
by Robert Beattie
Crime

One Hundred Two Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive inside the Twin 
Towers
RC 59954
by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
U.S. History

One Soldier's Story: A Memoir   
RC 60181
by Bob Dole
Biography

Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis   
RC 61249
by Jimmy Carter
Social Sciences

A Paper Life   
RC 59333
by Tatum O'Neal
Stage and Screen

The Perricone Promise: Look Younger, Live Longer in Three Easy Step  
RC 59524
by Nicholas Perricone
Medicine and Health

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith   
RC 60194
by Anne Lamott
Religion

Ric Flair: To Be the Man   
RC 59173
by Ric Flair
Sports and Recreation

The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat   
RC 60705
by Bob Woodward
Journalism and the Media

Secrets and Mysteries of the World   
RC 60123
by Sylvia Browne
Psychology and Self-Help

1776  
RC 60330
by David McCullough
U.S. History

Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror   
RC 59704
by Richard Miniter
War

Sharing Good Times   
RC 59329
by Jimmy Carter
Biography

Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper   
RC 61199
by Jack Coughlin and Casey Kulman
War

Start Late, Finish Rich: A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at Any Age: 
The Finish Series   
RC 59768
by David Bach
Business and Economics

Supernanny: How to Get the Best from Your Children   
RC 59705
by Jo Frost
Family

The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House   
RC 60608
by John F. Harris
U.S. History

The Tender Bar: A Memoir   
RC 61119
by J.R. Moehringer
Journalism and the Media

Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy inside the Mind of a Manager  
RC 60409
by Buzz Bissinger
Sports and Recreation

The Truth about Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to 
Become President   
RC 60609
by Edward Klein
Government and Politics

Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's 
Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang   
RC 60481
by William Queen
Crime

Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out against John Kerry   
RC 58936
by John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi
Government and Politics

What's the Matter with Kansas?  How Conservatives Won the Heart of America   
RC 59291
by Thomas Frank
Government and Politics

When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?   
RC 59470
by George Carlin
Humor

Who Let the Dogs In?  Incredible Political Animals I Have Known   
RC 59290
by Molly Ivins
Government and Politics

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare   
RC 59294
by Stephen Greenblatt
Stage and Screen

Winning   
RC 60338
by Jack Welch
Business and Economics

Winning the Future: A Twenty-first Century Contract with America   
RC 59797
by Newt Gingrich
Government and Politics

Witness for the Prosecution of Scott Peterson   
RC 59559
by Amber Frey
Crime

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century   
RC 60317
by Thomas L. Friedman
Business and Economics

Your Best Life Now: Seven Steps to Living at Your Full Potential   
RC 59330
by Joel Osteen
Inspiration

Fiction

Always   
RC 59236
by Jude Deveraux
Romance

Black Rose: In the Garden, Book 2   
RC 60606
by Nora Roberts
Gothic

Black Wind: A Dirk Pitt Novel   
RC 59292
by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
Adventure

Blue Dahlia: In the Garden, Book 1   
RC 59460
by Nora Roberts
Gothic

Broken Prey   
RC 60410
by John Sandford
Suspense

By Order of the President   
RC 59560
by W.E.B. Griffin
Supsense

The Calhouns: Catherine, Amanda, and Lilah   
RC 59759
by Nora Roberts
Romance

California Girl   
RC 59239
by T. Jefferson Parker
Mystery and Detective

The Cat Who Went Bananas   
RC 59520
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Mystery and Detective

Cell   
RC 61241
by Stephen King
Occult and Horror

Chainfire: The Sword of Truth, Book 9   
RC 59819
by Terry Goodkind
Fantasy

Chill Factor   
RC 60879
by Sandra Brown
Suspense

The Chrysanthemum Palace   
RC 60124
by Bruce Wagner
Psychological Themes

The Closers: Detective Harry Bosch   
RC 60009
by Michael Connelly
Mystery and Detective

Conviction   
RC 59781
by Richard North Patterson
Legal Themes

Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel   
RC 60682
by James Lee Burke
Mystery and Detective

Dance of Death: A Pendergast Mystery   
RC 60742
by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Mystery and Detective

The Dark Tower: The Dark Tower, Volume 7   
RC 59175
by Stephen King
Fantasy

Double Tap: A Paul Madriani Novel   
RC 60880
by Steve Martini
Legal Themes

Eleven on Top: A Stephanie Plum Novel   
RC 60607
by Jane Evanovich
Mystery and Detective

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close   
RC 60319
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Adventure

44 Cranberry Point: Cedar Cove, Book 4   
RC 59237
by Debbie Macomber
Romance

4th of July: A Women's Murder Club Mystery   
RC 60328
by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Suspense

The Forgotten Man: An Elvis Cole Novel   
RC 59895
by Robert Crais
Mystery and Detective

Full Bloom: Full Series   
RC 60318
by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes
Romance

Gilead   
RC 59561
by Marilynne Robinson
Family

Haunted: A Novel of Stories   
RC 60642
by Chuck Palahniuk
Occult and Horror

The History of Love   
RC 60776
by Nicole Krauss
Family

Honeymoon   
RC 60185
by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Suspense

The Hot Kid   
RC 60336
by Elmore Leonard
Adventure

Hour Game   
RC 59393
by David Baldacci
Suspense

How We Are Hungry: Stories   
RC 60628
by Dave Eggers
Short Stories

I am Charlotte Simmons   
RC 59557
by Tom Wolfe
Human Relationships

Impossible   
RC 59665
by Danielle Steel
Romance

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency   
RC 59069
by Alexander McCall Smith
General and Literature

Incubus Dream: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter   
RC 59069
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Occult and Horror

Ireland   
RC 59924
by Frank Delaney
Historical Fiction

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell   
RC 58885
by Susanna Clarke
Fantasy

Kafka on the Shore   
RC 59914
by Haruki Murakami
Human Relationships

The Killing Club   
RC 59953
by Michael Malone
Mystery and Detective

The Known World   
RC 56918
by Edward P. Jones
Historical Fiction

Life Expectancy   
RC 59394
by Dean Koontz
Suspense

Light on Snow   
RC 59288
by Anita Shreve
Family

Lipstick Jungle   
RC 60640
by Candace Bushnell
Human Relationships

Little Scarlet   
RC 58827
by Walter Mosley
Mystery and Detective

London Bridges: An Alex Cross Mystery   
RC 60187
by James Patterson
Suspense

A Long Way Down   
RC 60521
by Nick Hornby
Human Relationships

Love Overboard   
RC 59808
by Janet Evanovich
Romance

Metro Girl   
RC 59459
by Janet Evanovich
Suspense

Miracle   
RC 60644
by Danielle Steel
Romance

Night Fall   
RC 59489
by Nelson DeMille
Suspense

No Country for Old Men   
RC 60768
by Cormac McCarthy
Suspense

The Nosy Neighbor   
RC 60767
by Fern Michaels
Romance

Origin in Death: An Eve Dallas Mystery   
RC 60772
by J.D. Robb
Mystery and Detective

The Plot against America   
RC 58935
by Philip Roth
Political Themes

Point Blank: An FBI Thriller   
RC 61203
by Catherine Coulter
Suspense

Prince of Fire   
RC 59822
by Daniel Silva
Spies and Espionage

Prodigal Son: Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 1   
RC 59699
by Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson
Occult and Horror

Reunion   
RC 59703
by Nora Roberts
Romance

The Rising: Antichrist Is Born before They Were Left Behind; Countdown to the 
Rapture, Book 1   
RC 60479
by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Religious Themes

Runaway: Stories   
RC 59521
by Alice Munro
Short Stories

S is for Silence: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery  
RC 60925
by Sue Grafton
Mystery and Detective

Saturday   
RC 60075
by Ian McEwan
Psychological Themes

The Sea   
RC 61200
by John Banville
Psychological Themes

Skeleton Man: A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mystery   
RC 59293
by Tony Hillerman
Mystery and Detective

Snobs   
RC 59701
by Julian Fellowes
Humor

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan   
RC 60738
by Lisa See
Historical Fiction

Stars Wars: Episode III; Revenge of the Sith   
RC 60480
by Matthew Stover
Science Fiction and Fiction

The Starter Wife   
RC 60687
by Gigi Levangie Grazer
Romance

State of Fear   
RC 59336
by Michael Crichton
Suspense

Summer's Child   
RC 60522
by Luanne Rice
Romance

Survivor in Death: An Eve Dallas Mystery   
RC 59821
by J.D. Robb
Mystery and Detective

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: A Splinter Cell Adventure   
RC 59395
by David Michaels
Spies and Espionage

Toxic Bachelors   
RC 60641
by Danielle Steel
Romance

Trace: Dr. Kay Scarpetta Mysteries   
RC 59172
by Patricia Cornwell
Mystery and Detective

True Believer   
RC 60188
by Nicholas Sparks
Romance

The Two Swords: The Hunter's Blades Trilogy, Book 3   
RC 59240
by R.A. Salvatore
Fantasy

The Undomestic Goddess   
RC 60741
by Sophie Kinsella
Romance

Unexpected Blessings: Emma Harte, Book 5   
RC 59820
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Family

Vanishing Acts   
RC 60686
by Jodi Picoult
Family

Whiteout   
RC 59331
by Ken Follett
Suspense

Winner Takes All   
RC 59480
by Nora Roberts
Romance

With No One as Witness: An Inspector Thomas Lynley Mystery   
RC 60132
by Elizabeth George
Mystery and Detective

Ya-Yas in Bloom   
RC 60065
by Rebecca Wells
Human Relationships

Zorro   
RC 60590
by Isabel Allende
Historical Fiction