BESTSELLERS--May 2002
| FICTION BESTSELLERS | |||
| TITLE | AUTHOR | NEWSPAPER | STATUS |
| Approaching Storm | Alan Dean Foster | NYT | RC 53974 |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | LAT/NYT/WP | RC 54023, BR 14059 |
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | LAT/WP | RC |
| Black Water | T. Jefferson Parker | LAT | RC |
| Body of Lies | Iris Johansen | NYT | RC |
| City of Bones | Michael Connelly | NYT/LAT | RC |
| Cold Paradise | Stuart Woods | NYT | RC 51894 |
| Company | Robert Littell | WP | RC 54056 |
| Cordina's Crown Jewel | Nora Roberts | NYT | (on order) |
| Cottage | Danielle Steel | NYT/LAT | RC 53988, BR 14062 |
| Daddy's Little Girl | Mary Higgins Clark | NYT/LAT/WP | RC 53709, BR 13928 |
| Death in Holy Orders | P.D. James | WP | RC 51889 |
| Diary of Ellen Rimbauer | Joyce Reardon (ed.) | NYT/LAT | (on order) |
| Dream Country | Luanne Rice | NYT | RC 54048 |
| Dust to Dust | Tami Hoag | NYT | RC 50847 |
| Everything is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer | LAT/WP | (on order) |
| Empire Falls | Richard Russo | NYT | RC 52601 |
| Everything's Eventual | Stephen King | NYT/LAT/WP | RC 54067 |
| Good in Bed | Jennifer Weiner | LAT/WP | (on order) |
| Good Men | Charmaine Craig | LAT | RC 54022 |
| Hope Through Heartsongs | Mattie J.T. Stepanek | NYT | RC 54063, BR 14065 |
| Kentucky Rich | Fern Michaels | NYT | (on order) |
| Me Times Three | Alex Witchel | LAT | RC |
| Multitude of Sins | Richard Ford | LAT/WP | RC 54026 |
| Nanny Diaries | E. McLaughlin/N. Kraus | NYT/LAT/WP | RC 54032 |
| On a Wild Night | Stephanie Laurens | NYT | (on order) |
| On Green Dolphin Street | Sebastian Faulks | WP | RC 53943 |
| On the Street Where You Live | Mary Higgins Clark | NYT | RC 51647, BR 13281 |
| Pendragon | Catherine Coulter | NYT | RC 54043 |
| Reunion in Death | J.D. Robb | NYT | RC 54061 |
| Roscoe | William Kennedy | WP/LAT | RC 54024 |
| Sea Glass | Anita Shreve | NYT/LAT | RC 53783 |
| Second Chance | James Patterson | NYT/LAT/WP | RC/BR |
| Short Forever | Stuart Woods | NYT | RC |
| Shopaholic Takes Manhattan | Sophie Kinsella | LAT/WP | (on order) |
| Snow Garden | Christopher Rice | WP | RC 54064 |
| Spies | Michael Frayn | WP | RC 54025 |
| Stone Monkey | Jeffery Deaver | NYT/LAT | RC 53976 |
| Three Fates | Nora Roberts | NYT | RC/BR |
| Three Weeks in Paris | Barbara Taylor Bradford | NYT | RC |
| Thursday's Child | Sandra Brown | NYT | RC 54040 |
| Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cybernation | Steve Perry | NYT | RC |
| Villa | Nora Roberts | NYT | RC 51884, BR 13358 |
| Willow | V.C. Andrews | NYT | RC |
| NONFICTION BEST SELLERS | |||
| TITLE | AUTHOR | NEWSPAPER | STATUS |
| Ambling into History | Frank Bruni | WP | RC |
| April 1865 | Jay Winik | WP | RC 52027 |
| Blessings for a Skinned Knee | Wendy Mogel | LAT | RC |
| Blinded by the Right | David Brock | NYT/WP/LAT | RC 54035 |
| Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul | Jack Canfield and
Mark Victor Hansen |
(on order) | |
| Contrarian's Guide to Leadership | Steven B. Sample | LAT | RC 54057 |
| Cook's Tour | Anthony Bourdain | LAT | RC 54047 |
| Dear Mom | Bradley Trevor Greive | NYT | (not selected) |
| Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight | Alexandra Fuller | LAT | RC 53942 |
| Find Me | Rosie O'Donnell | NYT | (on order) |
| Fix-it and Forget-it Cookbook | Dawn Ranck and Phyllis Good | NYT | (on order) |
| French Lessons | Peter Mayle | NYT | RC 52170 |
| Get With the Program | Bob Greene | NYT | RC 54029 |
| Good to Great | Jim Collins | WP/LAT | RC 54059 |
| Healthy Kitchen | Andrew Weil and
Rosie Daley |
NYT/WP | (on order) |
| Heart of the Soul | Gary Zukav/Linda Francis | LAT | RC 54062 |
| I Hope You Dance | Mark D. Sanders | NYT | Not Selected |
| Killing Pablo | Mark Bowden | NYT/WP | RC 52308 |
| Knight: My Story | Bob Knight | NYT | RC 54038 |
| Love, Greg and Lauren | Greg Manning | NYT | RC 54052 |
| Lucky Man | Michael J. Fox | NYT/LAT | RC |
| Martha, Inc | Christopher M. Byron | NYT | (on order) |
| Metaphysical Club | Louis Menand | NYT | RC 52665 |
| Mind at a Time | Mel Levine | NYT/LAT | (on order) |
| Mothman Prophecies | John A. Keel | NYT | RC 54034 |
| Napalm and Silly Putty | George Carlin | NYT | RC 52283 |
| Natural | Joe Klein | WP/LAT | RC 54028, BR 14060 |
| Nickel and Dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich | WP | RC 52291 |
| Nigger | Randall Kennedy | NYT/WP/LAT | (on order) |
| Odd Girl Out | Rachel Simmons | NYT | (on order) |
| Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace | Gore Vidal | WP | (on order) |
| Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle | LAT | (not selected) |
| Report from Ground Zero | Dennis Smith | NYT | RC 54031 |
| Sacred Contracts | Caroline Myss | NYT/LAT | RC 54039 |
| Satisfaction | Kim Cattrall/Mark Levinson | NYT/LAT | BR 14061 |
| Seabiscuit | Laura Hillenbrand | NYT/WP | RC 51968 |
| See No Evil | Robert Bear | NYT/WP/LAT | RC 53770 |
| Self Matters | Philip C. McGraw | NYT/WP | RC 54036, BR 14066 |
| Shakedown | Kenneth R. Timmerman | LAT/WP | RC 54030 |
| Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family | Mary S Lovell | WP | RC 54027 |
| Small Wonder | Barbara Kingsolver | NYT | (on order) |
| Song Flung Up to Heaven | Maya Angelou | NYT | RC |
| Still Woman Enough | Loretta Lynn | NYT | RC |
| CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS | |||
| TITLE | AUTHOR | NEWSPAPER | STATUS |
| Bear Snores On | Karma Wilson | NYT | (on order) |
| Daisy Comes Home | Jan Brett | NYT | P/B |
| Emeril's There's a Chef in My Soup | Emeril Lagasse | NYT | BR |
| Farewell, My Lunchbag | Bruce Hale | LAT | (on order) |
| Princess in Love | Meg Cabot | NYT | RC |
| Princess in the Spotlight | Meg Cabot | NYT | RC 52779 |
| Recess Queen | Alexis O'Neill | LAT | (on order) |
| BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS | |||
| TITLE | AUTHOR | BOOK CLUB | STATUS |
| American Empire: Blood and Iron | Harry Turtledove | SFBC | RC 54046 |
| Approaching Storm (Star Wars) | Alan Dean Foster | SFBC | RC 53974 |
| April Food Dead | Carolyn Hart | MG | RC 54054 |
| Black Chalice | Marie Jakober | SFBC | (on order) |
| Body of Lies | Iris Johansen | MG/LG | RC |
| Bones of the Earth | Michael Swanwick | SFBC | (on order) |
| Buffalo Valley | Debbie Macomber | RBC | (awaiting copyright) |
| Child of the Prophecy | Juliet Marilier | SFBC | RC 54055 |
| City of Bones | Michael Connelly | MG | RC |
| Cottage | Danielle Steel | LG | RC 53988, BR 14062 |
| Daddy's Little Girl | Mary Higgins Clark | BOMC/LG/MG | RC 53709, BR 13928 |
| Defender | C. J. Cherryh | SFBC | (on order) |
| Destiny | Elizabeth Haydon | SFBC | RC 54070 |
| Diplomatic Immunity | Lois McMaster Bujold | SFBC | (on order) |
| Don't Look Back | Amanda Quick | RBC | (on order) |
| Dying to Please | Linda Howard | RBC | (on order) |
| Eden Burning | Elizabeth Lowell | RBC | RC |
| Emperor of Ocean Park | Stephen L. Carter | BOMC | (on order) |
| Enemy Women | Paulette Jiles | BOMC | (on order) |
| Everything's Eventual | Stephen King | BOMC | RC 54067 |
| Fallen Dragon | Peter F. Hamilton | SFBC | RC 54058 |
| Fatal | Michael Palmer | MG | (on order) |
| Fool's Errand | Robin Hobb | SFBC | RC 54033 |
| Freedom's Ransom | Anne McCaffrey | SFBC | (on order) |
| Gates of Sleep | Mercedes Lackey | SFBC | RC 54050 |
| Golden One | Elizabeth Peters | MG | RC |
| Gone for Good | Harlan Coben | BOMC | RC |
| Just Beyond Tomorrow | Beatrice Small | RBC | RC |
| Kaleidoscope | Dorothy Gilman | MG | RC 54041, BR 14063 |
| Kentucky Heat | Fern Micaels | RBC | (on order) |
| Kiln People | David Brin | SFBC | RC 54042 |
| Knight in Shining Armor | Jude Deveraux | RBC | RC 30968, BR 14063 |
| Lady Sophia's Lover | Lisa Kleypas | RBC | (on order) |
| Last Chance Cafe | Linda Lael Miller | RBC | RC |
| Loner | Joan Johnston | RBC | RC |
| Lost in Your Arms | Christina Dodd | RBC | RC 54051 |
| Lost Nation | Jeffrey Lent | BOMC | (on order) |
| Manifold: Origin | Stephen Baxter | SFBC | (on order) |
| Midnight Voices | John Saul | LG | (on order) |
| Mortal Prey | John Sandford | LG/BOMC | RC 54049, BR 14064 |
| My Lady's Temptation | Denise Hampton | RBC | RC 54053 |
| Pursuit | Johanna Lindsey | RBC | RC 54066 |
| Running Scared | Elizabeth Lowell | RBC | (on order) |
| Sea Glass | Anita Shreve | BOMC | RC 53783 |
| Second Chance | James Patterson | BOMC/MG/LG | RC/BR |
| Shelters of Stone | Jean M. Auel | BOMC/LG | RC 53756 |
| Short Forever | Stuart Woods | LG/MG | RC |
| Sorcerer's Treason | Sarah Zettel | SFBC | (on order) |
| Sorcery Rising | Jude Fisher | SFBC | (on order) |
| Star Wars: Episode II; Attack of the Clones | R.A. Salvatore | SFBC | RC |
| Star Wars New Jedi Order: Star by Star | Troy Denning | SFBC | RC 54045 |
| Stone Monkey | Jeffrey Deaver | LG/MG | RC 53976 |
| Sunset in St. Tropez | Danielle Steel | LG | (on order) |
| Three Fates | Nora Roberts | LG/RBC | RC/BR |
| Three Weeks in Paris | Barbara Taylor Bradford | LG | RC |
| To Kiss a Spy | Jane Feather | RBC | (on order) |
| Vitals | Greg Bear | SGBC | RC 54065 |
| Way of Light | Storm Constantine | SFBC | (on order) |
| Years of Rice and Salt | Kim Stanley Robinson | SFBC | RC 54060 |