Dallas Morning News, The (TX)

Dallas Morning News, The (TX)

December 25, 2005

BY THE NUMBERS

Best Sellers

Edition: SECOND
Section: GUIDELIVE
Page: 3G

Article Text:

This week's list of local best-sellers is from Black Images Book Bazaar, 230 Wynnewood Village. 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. Resurrecting Langston Blue, by Robert Greer

2. The Best-Kept Secret, by Kimberla Lawson Roby

3. The Interruption of Everything, by Terry McMillan

4. Cinnamon Kiss, by Walter Mosley

5. In Sheep's Clothing, by Mary Monroe

6. Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This, by Mary B. Morrison

7. Freshwater Road, by Denise Nicholas

8. Babylon Sisters, by Pearl Cleage

9. Genevieve, by Eric Jerome Dickey

10. Rosa, by Nikki Giovanni

HARDBACK NONFICTION

1. Amazing Peace, by Maya Angelou

2. Confessions of a Video Vixen, by Karrine Steffans

3. Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, by Fantasia

4. Mirror to America, by John Hope Franklin

5. The Beauty of Color, by Iman with Tia Williams

6. Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats, by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry

7. When Rocks Cry Out, by Horace Butler

8. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, by Maya Ange! lou

9. Biggie: Voletta Wallace Remembers Her Son, Christopher Wallace, AKA Notorious B.I.G., by Voletta Wallace with Tremell McKenzie

10. Queens: Portraits of Black Women and Their Fabulous Hair, by Michael Cunningham and George Alexander

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Any Rich Man Will Do, by Francis Ray

2. When a Sistah's Fed Up, by Monica Anderson

3. Knockin' Boots, by Tracy Price-Thompson

4. Don't Get It Twisted, by Eric Pete

5. Still Waters, by Patricia Haley

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Ishmael - Whom God Hears, by Kedra Dumas

2. The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave, by Kashif Malik Hassan-El

3. "Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?" by Reginald F. Lewis and Blair S. Walker

4. The Product, by Marcus Parker

5. Searching to Fill the Void, by Sonia Adams

NATIONAL

HARDBACK FICTION

1. (-) S Is for Silence, by Sue Grafton

2. (1) Mary, Mary, by James Patterson

3! . (2) At First Sight, by Nicholas Sparks

4. (6) Predator, by Pat ricia Cornwell

5. (3) Light From Heaven, by Jan Karon

6. (-) Amazing Peace, by Maya Angelou

7. (5) The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown

8. (4) Forever Odd, by Dean Koontz

9. (7) The Lighthouse, by P.D. James

10. (9) Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, by Anne Rice

HARDBACK NONFICTION

1. (1) Teacher Man, by Frank McCourt

2. (2) Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter

3. (3) Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

4. (4) The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman

5. (5) Marley & Me, by John Grogan

6. (8) 1776, by David McCullough

7. (6) The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion

8. (7) Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

9. (9) The Truth (With Jokes), by Al Franken

10. (10) My Friend Leonard, by James Frey

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. (1) Red Lily, by Nora Roberts

2. (2) The Broker, by John Grisham

3. (3) Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden

4. (-) State of Fear, by Michael Crichton

5. (5) Going Home, by Nora Roberts

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. (1) A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey

2. (3) Worth More Dead, by Ann Rule

3. (2) In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

4. (5) The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson

5. (4) The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell

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