Fiction

    This week/Last week
   1. (3) The Lovely Bones: A Novel, Alice Sebold (Little Brown & Co.; $21.95) Murder victim monitors the lives of family and killer left behind.
   2. (5) Empire Falls, Richard Russo (Vintage Books; $14.95) A slice of a nice guy's blue-collar, small-town life.
   3. (—) Best Friends, Martha Moody (Riverhead Books; $14) Story follows the ups and downs of the lives and friendship of college chums.
   4. (4) The Beach House, James Patterson and Peter De Jonge (Little Brown and Co.; $26.95) Law student investigates and plans revenge for the murder of his brother.
   5. (—) A Bend in the Road, Nicholas Sparks (Warner Books; $7.99) A new couple's love is tested by the circumstances of their previous lives.
   6. (2) The Remnant, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale House Publisher; $24.99) No. 10 in the Left Behind series continuing saga of the world and its inhabitants after “The Rapture.”
   7. (6) Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel, Rebecca Wells (HarperCollins; $14) Siddalee reviews the history of the sisterhood to regain her relationship with her mother.
   8. (—) Almost, Elizabeth Benedict (Mariner Books; $13) Death of an almost ex-husband leaves a woman with many loose ends to tie up.
   9. (7) Hard Eight, Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's Press; $25.95) Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum returns with her usual companions for a case where a child's fate hangs in the balance.
   10. (—) Emperor of Ocean Park, Stephen L. Carter (Knopf; $26.95) Ivy league law professor faces ghost from the past as he determines whether his father's death was natural or murder.
   
Nonfiction

    1. (—) Golf in the Kingdom, Michael Murphy (An Esalen Story) (Penguin USA; $13.95). The Zen of Golf equals the Zen of life.
   2. (—) Good to Great, Jim Collins (HarperCollins; $27.50) subtitled “Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . and Others Don't.”
   3. (1) Slander, Ann H. Coulter (Crown Publishers; $25.95) subtitled “Liberal Lies About the American Right.”
   4. (3) She Said Yes, Misty Bernall, Madeleine L'Engle and Michael W. Smith (afterword) (Pocket Books; $5.99) Subtitled “The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall.”
   5. (—) The Plot Thickens, Noah Lukeman (St. Martin's Press; $19.95) subtitled “8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life.”
   6. (2) Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand (Ballantine Books; $15) Tale of the horse that became a champion and the people who helped make it happen.
   7. (—) Who Moved My Cheese, Spencer Johnson and Keith Blanchard (Putnam Publishing Group; $19.95) subtitled “An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life.” 8. (6) Lucky Man, Michael J. Fox (Hyperion; $22.95) Actor dwells on life before and after his Parkinson's diagnosis, and how, in some ways, life is better because of it.
   9. (10) I'll Cook When Pigs Fly, (Junior League; $19.95) Junior League cookbook in relation to the Big Pig Gig with cover by Jim Borgman.
   10. (8) Journey to the Well, Vashti Murphy McKenzie (Viking Press; $21.95) The first woman bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church gives a guide for women of faith.
       About the list: Participants: Books & Co., Joseph-Beth Booksellers and Montgomery Books. Based on sales ending week of July 14; (—) indicates a book was not on the list the previous week.

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