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Albom's big 'Day': Mitch Albom, whose novel For One More Day is No. 1 on USA
TODAY's Best-Selling Books list, is no stranger to the upper reaches of the
sales rankings.
But he never has risen to the top so fast — in the first week of
publication. Day, about a suicidal man's chance to spend a day with his
mother eight years
after her death, arrived in bookstores Sept. 26. Albom's 1997 hit, Tuesdays
With Morrie, made its debut at No. 36 and reached No. 1 more than two years
later. It spent 366 weeks in the top 150. Albom's Five People You Meet in
Heaven entered at No. 4 in October 2003 and hit No. 1 more than a year
later.
Bob Wietrak, Barnes & Noble vice president, predicts Albom's novel "will be
our No. 1 hardcover fiction title for the year," outselling Nicholas Sparks,
Stephen King, James Patterson, Thomas Harris and Michael Crichton.
State of success:
Bob Woodward's State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III went on sale Saturday,
two days ahead of schedule after TheNew York Times got hold of the book
early.
It immediately jumped to No. 7.
Merciless:
Ann Coulter, the conservative pundit liberals love to hate, is the target of
three books being published this month: Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of
Ann
Coulter by Joe Maguire (Morrow, $23.95), I Hate Ann Coulter! by Unanimous
(Simon Spotlight paperback, $9.95) and Soulless: Ann Coulter and the
Right-Wing
Church of Hate by Susan Estrich (HarperCollins, $24.95). Photos of Coulter
in her trademark black cocktail dress are on the covers of Maguire and
Unanimous'
books, with the latter adding horns and a devil's tail. Estrich, a Democrat
strategist, dressed up as Coulter for her cover as a parody of Coulter's
latest
best seller, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, which hit No. 3 on the list
this summer. Coulter didn't respond to a request for comment.
Legal brief:
Paperback originals usually are reserved for new writers, not best sellers
such as Scott Turow (Presumed Innocent). But his next legal thriller,
Limitations,
will be published as a $13 paperback on Nov. 14. That's because it's only
208 pages, and much of it was serialized in The New York Times Sunday
Magazine.
Picador's Tanya Farrell says the publisher thought, "Why not offer Scott's
fans a novella at a great price?" Turow has added a suspect and fleshed out
several scenes.