Hardcover Fiction -- Updated April 26, 2007

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1 THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN, by J. R. R. Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Illustrated by Alan Lee. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.) In Middle-earth, an evil lord wants to destroy his rival’s children. Weeks On List 1

2 THE WOODS, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $26.95.) New evidence about a case of murder and disappearance at a summer camp 20 years earlier forces a county prosecutor to confront family secrets. Weeks On List 1

3 I HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A woman marries a childhood acquaintance suspected of several murders. Weeks On List 3

4 THE GOOD HUSBAND OF ZEBRA DRIVE, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $21.95.) The eighth novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Weeks On List 1

5 NINETEEN MINUTES, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $26.95.) The aftermath of a high school shooting reveals the fault lines in a small New Hampshire town. Weeks On List 7

6 OBSESSION, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $26.95.) The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates an apparent deathbed confession of murder. Weeks On List 4

7 FRESH DISASTERS, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, tangles with a mob boss. Weeks On List 2

8 KINGDOM COME, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. (Tyndale, $25.99.) The final title in the “Left Behind” series. 6Weeks On List 3

9 * SLEEPING WITH STRANGERS, by Eric Jerome Dickey. (Dutton, $24.95.) A hit man who hopes to leave the business travels to London to escape pursuers. Weeks On List 2

10 THE ALIBI MAN, by Tami Hoag. (Bantam, $26.) A disgraced former policewoman investigates a murder linked to a group of wealthy Palm Beach men. Weeks On List 4

11 WHITE NIGHT, by Jim Butcher. (Roc, $23.95.) Someone is killing Chicago’s minor wizards, and the half-brother of Harry Dresden, a wizard detective, is a suspect. Weeks On List 3

12 THE BLUE ZONE, by Andrew Gross. (Morrow, $25.95.) A young woman searches for her father when he disappears from the Witness Protection Program. Weeks On List 1

13 STEP ON A CRACK, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A detective raising 10 children alone must rescue 34 high-level hostages. Weeks On List 11

14 THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, by Mohsin Hamid. (Harcourt, $22.) The life of a Pakistani immigrant, successful in the corporate world, is changed by 9/11. Weeks On List 3

15 WHITETHORN WOODS, by Maeve Binchy. (Knopf, $25.95.) A proposed highway threatens the existence of a religious shrine in a rural Irish village. Weeks On List 7

16 * THE LAND OF MANGO SUNSETS, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (Morrow, $24.95.) A Manhattan socialite whose husband has left her learns to move on with her life. Weeks On List 2

Also Selling
17 LACED, by Carol Higgins Clark (Scribner)
18 THE MARRIAGE GAME, by Fern Michaels (Pocket)
19 OBSESSION, by Karen Robards (Putnam)
20 SISTERS, by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
21 SHOPAHOLIC & BABY, by Sophie Kinsella (Dial)
22 FOR ONE MORE DAY, by Mitch Albom (Hyperion)
23 ABSOLUTE FEAR, by Lisa Jackson (Kensington)
24 THE QUILTER'S HOMECOMING, by Jennifer Chiaverini (& Schuster)
25 BOOMSDAY, by Christopher Buckley (Twelve)
26 WHAT THE DEAD KNOW, by Laura Lippman (Morrow)
27 DOUBLE BIND, by Chris Bohjalian (Shaye Areheart)
28 FOR A FEW DEMONS MORE, by Kim Harrison (Eos/Harper Collins)
29 BODY OF LIES, by David Ignatius (Norton)
30 HUNTER'S MOON, by Randy Wayne White (Putnam)
31 INTO A DARK REALM, by Raymond E. Feist (Eos)
32 HEART-SHAPED BOX, by Joe Hill (Morrow) First Chapter
33 THE NAMING OF THE DEAD, by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown)
34 THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES, by Roberto Bolano (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) First Chapter
35 WATCHMAN, by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster)