Top 9 2006's Best Sellers

$21.95, Hyperion, A depressed man communes with his deceased mother. From the author of Tuesdays With Morrie. ***

$27.95, Hachet, Legal thriller about an attorney who was once a basketball player, now representing a high school athlete accused of murder. ***

$26.95, Scribner, The quill of thrill dedicated this book to Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero. It???s about zombies. ***

$27.95, Hachet, A new installment in Patterson???s ???Women???s Murder Club??? series. ***

$26.95, St. Martin???s Press, The latest in Evanovich???s ongoing series about bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. ***

$21.95, William Morrow and Company, 2005 A comic memoir about life with a hyperactive Labrador. ***

$28.95, Doubleday, A disturbing expose about how a corrupt, small-town judicial system sent an innocent man to death row. ***

$25, Free Press, A how-to weight loss book that explores the biology of fat retention and loss. ***

$30, Simon and Schuster, Bob Woodward???s third book about the Bush administration at war. Reported before the midterms. ***