Even with a few shifts on the list in recent weeks, fiction takes two-thirds of the top 15 spots on the trade paper chart. Two new novels have landed in the past two weeks. Tracy Chevalier's original trade paperback The Virgin Blue enjoys its second week in the #9 slot, and Jennifer Weiner's In Her Shoes lands this week in the #7 spot. Plume is very pleased with the strong early sales of Chevalier's book and has already gone back to press four times, bringing the initial 160,000 printing to 281,000 within the first two weeks of publication. A Book Sense 76 pick for July/August, Plume has also sent out about 400 mixed displays with two earlier Chevalier bestsellers—The Girl with the Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The former was a huge paperback bestseller and was on our trade paper charts for a total of 56 weeks. Falling Angels made it on trade paper for only six weeks.
Weiner's mega trade paperback hit, Good in Bed, was on the trade paper charts for a hefty 46 weeks. Publisher Washington Square Press has 205,000 copies in print of In Her Shoes after two printings and expects to be going back for a third run in the near future. Weiner had a productive spring—she gave birth in May to her first child, Lucy Jane; the infant has already accompanied proud mom on her first two signings, in Cape Cod while on a family vacation.
With reporting by Dick Donahue
