May 4, 2008 Bestselling Books
By Jane • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News • •
Will Kresley Cole hit #1 with her June release? She’s at number 3 with her May release. Brenda Jackson’s Kimani release hit the extended list which is unusual because, in part, it is a category romance.
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| Book Title | Author | Publisher | Price | Rank | Peak | NYT |
| The Devil Who Tamed Her | Johanna Lindsey | $7.99 | 7 | 7 | 14 | |
| Twenty Wishes | Debbie Macomber | Mira | $24.95 | 10 | 10 | 3* |
| A Wanted Man: A Stone Creek Novel | Linda Lael Miller | HQN | $7.99 | 12 | 12 | 33 |
| Up Close and Dangerous | Linda Howard | Ballantine | $7.99 | 13 | 13 | 24 |
| Innocent as Sin | Elizabeth Lowell | Avon | $7.99 | 18 | 18 | 19 |
| Natural Born Charmer | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | Avon | $7.99 | 19 | 19 | 11 |
| Lawman | Diana Palmer | HQN | $7.99 | 22 | 22 | |
| The Darkest Kiss | Keri Arthur | Dell | $6.99 | 29 | 29 | 16 |
| Promises | Fern Michaels | HQN | $7.99 | 32 | 32 | |
| Dark Deeds at Night’s Edge | Kresley Cole | $6.99 | 38 | 38 | 3 | |
| The Darkest Night: Lords of the Underworld | Gena Showalter | HQN | $6.99 | 42 | 42 | 8 |
| The Charm School | Susan Wiggs | Mira | $7.99 | 43 | 43 | |
| One Foot in the Grave | Jeaniene Frost | Avon | $6.99 | 45 | 45 | 9 |
| Duke Most Wanted | Celeste Bradley | St. Martin’s Press | $6.99 | 47 | 47 | 17 |
| The Other Boleyn Girl | Philipa Gregory | Touchstone | $16.00 | 50 | 3 | 14** |
| Back on Blossom Street | Debbie Macomber | Mira | $7.99 | 51 | 24 | 29 |
| Lover’s Bite | Maggie Shayne | Mira | $7.99 | 70 | 70 | 22 |
| The Forbidden: The Courtship of Nellie Fisher | Bevarly Lewis | Bethany House | $13.99 | 73 | 73 | |
| Dark Magic | Christine Feehan | Dorchester Publishing | $7.99 | 78 | 78 | |
| Playing with Fire | Katie MacAlister | Signet | $7.99 | 85 | 85 | |
| The Third Circle: An Arcane Society Novel | Amanda Quick | Putnam | $24.95 | 91 | 25 | 18* |
| Hokus Pokus | Fern Michaels | Zebra | $6.99 | 97 | 26 | |
| Dying Breath | Wendy Corsi Staub | Zebra | $6.99 | 100 | 100 | |
| The Hollow | Nora Roberts | Jove | $7.99 | 101 | 101 | |
| Silver Flame | Hannah Howell | Zebra | $6.99 | 103 | 103 | |
| Creation in Death | J.D. Robb | Berkley | $7.99 | 106 | 36 | 27 |
| A Notorious Proposition | Adele Ashworth | Avon | $6.99 | 112 | 112 | |
| The River Knows | Amanda Quick | Jove | $7.99 | 121 | 35 | 32 |
| Fire and Ice | Anne Stuart | Mira | $6.99 | 133 | 133 | 21 |
| Shadow Magic | Cheyenne McCray | St. Martin’s Paperback | $6.99 | 144 | 144 | |
| Three Nights of Sin | Anne Mallory | Avon | $5.99 | 150 | 150 |
* NYT Hardcover list
** NYT Trade Paperback
*** A LADY’S SECRET, by Jo Beverley (Signet) is No. 30 on the NYT Mass Market extended list and IRRESISTIBLE FORCES by Brenda Jackson (Kimani) is No. 34 on the NYT Mass Market extended list
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Brenda Jackson’s Kimani release hit the extended list which is unusual because, in part, it is a category romance
Aren’t HQN books category romances too, then? I checked eHarlequin, and the HQN books do stick around for a while, but then, so do many of the books in the various Kimani imprints. For example, when I took a look at the Kimani Romance line, the line in which Jackson’s book is published, there are books still available on the website which date from December 2007.
I’m a bit confused because in the UK Mills & Boon sell MIRA books as categories (i.e. they’re listed by month, and only 3 months’ worth of books are listed on the site).
Nope, HQN books are considered single title rather than category :)