It must be summer. Evanovich rules with a 1.5-million printing, while Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos’s latest underwater gambit aims high (650,000 copies) and Ann Brashares (of the Traveling Pants Sisterhood) gambles on her first adult novel (600,000 copies). In nonfiction, talk of Carl Bernstein’s Hilary Clinton bio and Tina Brown’s Princess Diana takedown should fire up the airwaves. In children’s books, favorite Jerry Spinelli returns and newcomer Melissa Marr splashes in.
| JUNE 1 |*Charlie Bone and the Beast by Jenny Nimmo (Orchard, $10.99). 200,000 copies.*Ratatouille: Remy’s Adventure in Paris (Disney Press, $12.99). 200,000 copies.*Ratatouille: What’s Cooking?—A Cookbook for Kids (Disney Press, $12.99). 100,000 copies.*Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: A Hot Dog Day by Sheila Sweeny Higginson (Disney Press, $8.99). 100,000 copies.*Eggs by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown, $15.99). 100,000 copies.*Scholastic Children’s Dictionary (Scholastic Reference, $18.99). 100,000 copies.| JUNE 5 |
The Navigator by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam, $26.95). 650,000 copies.
The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares (Riverhead, $24.95). 600,000 copies.
Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Betrayal by Eric Van Lustbader (Warner, $25.99). 400,000 copies.
The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster, $26.95). 300,000 copies.
Spare Change by Robert B. Parker (Putnam, $24.95). 250,000 copies.
The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley, $25.95). 225,000 copies.
Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal by Ann Rule (Free Press, $26). 200,000 copies.
*Peek-a-Baby by Karen Katz (Little Simon, $6.99). 200,000 copies.
*On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Doubleday/Talese, $22). 200,000 copies.
Grace Will Lead Me Home by Robin Givens (Miramax, $23.95). 150,000 copies.
Dedication by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin (Atria, $24). 100,000 copies.
This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood by Jack Valenti (Harmony, $25.95). 100,000 copies.
The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption by John Perkins (Dutton, $25.95).
| JUNE 6 |
F5: Devastation, Survival and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century by Mark Levine (Miramax, $25.95). 150,000 copies.
Tearing Down the Wall of Sound by Mick Brown (Knopf, $26.95). 60,000 copies.
Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas by Rick Moody (Little, Brown, $23.99). 30,000 copies.
| JUNE 11 |
1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die by Patricia Schultz (Workman, $27.95). 250,000 copies.
*North River by Pete Hamill (Little, Brown, $25.99). 175,000 copies.
| JUNE 12 |
*Vampyre: The Terrifying Lost Journal of Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing by Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing and Gustav De Wolff (HarperCollins, $19.99). 250,000 copies.
*Stalin’s Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith (Simon & Schuster, $26.95). 250,000 copies.
The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown (Doubleday, $27.50). 200,000 copies.
Cat O’ Nine Tales: And Other Stories by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin’s, $27.95). 200,000 copies.
*Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin (HarperCollins, $25.95). 150,000 copies.
*The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (HarperCollins, $24.95). 100,000 copies.
**Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr (HarperTeen, $16.99). 100,000 copies.
Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB by Alex Goldfarb with Marina Litvinenko (Free Press, $27).
| JUNE 15 |
*Pirates of the Caribbean: The Black Pearl—A Pirate Ship Pop-up (Disney Press, $12.99). 150,000 copies.
| JUNE 19 |
Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s, $26.95). 1.25 million copies.
*Double Take by Catherine Coulter (Putnam, $25.95). 500,000 copies.
A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein (Knopf, $28.95). 350,000 copies.
Innocent as Sin by Elizabeth Lowell (Morrow, $24.95). 200,000 copies.
Lady in Blue by Javier Sierra (Atria, $25.95). 105,000 copies.
| JUNE 25 |
Peeling the Onion by Günter Grass, trans. by Michael Henry Heim (Harcourt, $26). 75,000 copies.
| JUNE 26 |
Bungalow 2 by Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $27). 750,000 copies.
Drop Dead Beautiful by Jackie Collins (St. Martin’s, $24.95). 400,000 copies.
The Double Agents by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV (Putnam, $25.95). 250,000 copies.
*Goodnight Moon 123 by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $16.99). 200,000 copies.
*M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, $16.99). 125,000 copies.
*InterWorld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves (HarperCollins/Eos, $16.99). 125,000 copies.
*Love Is a Many Trousered Thing by Louise Rennison (HarperTeen, $16.99). 125,000 copies.
*Catopia by Caroline Repchuk, illus. by Anne Mortimer (HarperCollins/Tegen, $19.99). 100,000 copies.
*No Talking by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster, $15.99). 100,000 copies.
Requiem for an Assassin by Barry Eisler (Putnam, $24.95). 70,000 copies.
| JUNE 27 |
Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France by Floyd Landis with Loren Mooney (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95).
—With reporting by Raya Kuzyk and Joy Bean
*= PW starred reviews
*= Children’s titles