That's funny, SierraSong. In which New York Times was that published?
Here's the real one, folks.
BEST SELLERS: June 11, 2006
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Published: June 11, 2006
Weeks
This Last On
Week Week List FICTION
1 1 AT RISK, by Patricia Cornwell. (Putnam, $21.95.) A Massachusetts state investigator applies DNA and other forensic techniques to a cold murder case; written as a serial for The New York Times Magazine.
2 1 4 BEACH ROAD, by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge. (Little, Brown, $27.95.) An East Hampton lawyer becomes involved in a highly publicized trial that pits locals against the super-rich.
3 2 2 DEAD WATCH, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $26.95.) A political operative investigates the murder of a former senator.
4 3 2 THE HARD WAY, by Lee Child. (Delacorte, $25.) When his wife is kidnapped, a man who deals in illegal soldiers turns to the former military cop Jack Reacher.
5 4 8 TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A small girl communicates telepathically with her kidnapped twin.
6 5 4 DIGGING TO AMERICA, by Anne Tyler. (Knopf, $24.95.) Two families, one of them Iranian-American, become involved with each other when both adopt baby girls from Korea.
7 8 165 THE DA VINCI CODE, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday, $24.95; special illustrated edition, $35.) A murder at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo and to the discovery of a secret society.
8 6 6 BLUE SHOES & HAPPINESS, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $21.95.) The seventh novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
9 9 5 PROMISE ME, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $26.95.) Myron Bolitar becomes a suspect when a high school girl disappears after he drives her to a friend's house.
10* 10 5 EVERYMAN, by Philip Roth. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) A man grapples with aging and physical decline.
11 7 4 I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER, by E. Lynn Harris. (Doubleday, $21.95.) As a gay singer struggles with homophobia in the black church, he must come to terms with his past.
12 14 3 BAD TWIN, by Gary Troup. (Hyperion, $21.95.) A private investigator faces danger as he helps a man search for his irresponsible missing brother; the ''author'' is a character on the ABC hit series ''Lost.''
13 1 KILLER INSTINCT, by Joseph Finder. (St. Martin's, $24.95.) A mild-mannered executive hires a former Special Forces officer who will stop at nothing to help his friend get ahead; from the author of ''Company Man.''
14 16 4 SUITE FRANÇAISE, by Irène Némirovsky. (Knopf, $25.) Two novellas, which came to light more than 50 years after the author's death at Auschwitz, about life in France under the Nazis.
15 1 THE POE SHADOW, by Matthew Pearl. (Random House, $24.95.) A Baltimore lawyer investigates the poet's mysterious death; from the author of ''The Dante Club.''
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This Last On
Week Week List NONFICTION
1 1 32 MARLEY & ME, by John Grogan. (Morrow, $21.95.) A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.
2 1 WISDOM OF OUR FATHERs, by Tim Russert. (Random House, $22.95.) The host of ''Meet the Press'' presents readers' letters about their fathers in response to his book ''Big Russ and Me.''
3 1 DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE, by Anderson Cooper. (HarperCollins, $24.95.) The CNN correspondent describes a year of covering the tsunami in Sri Lanka, the war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina.
4 2 3 MAYFLOWEr, by Nathaniel Philbrick. (Viking, $29.95.) How America began, from the author of ''In the Heart of the Sea.''
5 3 60 THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) A columnist for The Times analyzes 21st-century economics and foreign policy.
6 8 59 FREAKONOMICs, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow, $25.95.) A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to the falling crime rate.
7 7 3 MYTHS, LIES, AND DOWNRIGHT STUPIDITY, by John Stossel. (Hyperion, $24.95.) The ''20/20'' anchor questions conventional wisdom.
8 5 3 MY LIFE IN & OUT OF THE ROUGH, by John Daly with Glen Waggoner. (HarperCollins, $25.95.) A memoir by the bad-boy golf champion.
9 4 7 DON'T MAKE A BLACK WOMAN TAKE OFF HER EARrings, by Tyler Perry. (Riverhead, $23.95.) The man behind ''Diary of a Mad Black Woman'' muses on life.
10* 6 4 BURNT TOAST, by Teri Hatcher. (Hyperion, $24.95.) The actress urges women to pursue their own satisfaction rather than continually sacrificing for others.
11 10 4 POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS, by Augusten Burroughs. (St. Martin's, $23.95.) Autobiographical essays from the author of ''Running With Scissors.''
12 9 4 THE MIGHTY AND THE ALMIGHTY, by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward. (HarperCollins, $25.95.) The former secretary of state reflects on America, God and world affairs.
13 12 6 THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin Press, $26.95.) Tracking dinner from the soil to the plate, a journalist juggles appetite and conscience.
14 11 3 THE GREAT DELUGE, by Douglas Brinkley. (Morrow, $29.95.) A historian describes the human toll during the week following Hurricane Katrina.
15 16 66 BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $25.95.) The author of ''The Tipping Point'' explores the importance of hunch and instinct to the workings of the mind.
16* 13 2 CRIME BEAT, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown, $25.95.) A crime reporter turned novelist describes a decade of covering cops and killers.
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