Bestsellers – Week of May 4th, 2012
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles
| 1 | WHY MEN LIE by Linden MacIntyre | 1 (6) |
| 2 | THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION by Alexander McCall Smith | 5 (6) |
| 3 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R.R. Martin | 3 (42) |
| 4 | IN ONE PERSON by John Irving | (1) |
| 5 | CALICO JOE by John Grisham | 9 (4) |
| 6 | THE HEADMASTER’S WAGER by Vincent Lam | 2 (2) |
| 7 | THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE by Stephen King | 4 (2) |
| 8 | SACRÉ BLEU by Christopher Moore | 6 (5) |
| 9 | STRAY BULLETS by Robert Rotenberg | (1) |
| 10 | THE CAT’S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje | 10 (36) |
| 1 | THE WORLD OF DOWNTON ABBEY by Jessica Fellowes | 2 (15) |
| 2 | THE PASSAGE OF POWER by Robert Caro | (1) |
| 3 | STRAPHANGER by Taras Grescoe | 3 (3) |
| 4 | IMAGINE by Jonah Lehrer | 5 (3) |
| 5 | DROP DEAD HEALTHY by A. J. Jacobs | 9 (4) |
| 6 | TURING’S CATHEDRAL by George Dyson | 10 (8) |
| 7 | QUIET by Susan Cain | 1 (11) |
| 8 | THAT WOMAN by Anne Sebba | 6 (2) |
| 9 | WHEN I WAS A CHILD I READ BOOKS by Marilynne Robinson | (1) |
| 10 | DROP DEAD HEALTHY by A. J. Jacobs | 8 (2) |
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Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.
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