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Fiction & Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers

	1 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons.
	2 THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks. A 17-year-old girl spends the summer with her divorced father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love.
	3 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi
	4 ALEX CROSS’S TRIAL, by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo.
	5 SOUTH OF BROAD, by Pat Conroy. An unlikely group’s friendship from the ’60s to the ’80s, and from South Carolina to San Francisco; by the author of "The Prince of Tides."
	6 SPARTAN GOLD, by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood. Husband-and-wife treasure hunters search for bottles of wine from Napoleon’s “lost cellar.”
	7 THE WHITE QUEEN, by Philippa Gregory. The author of "The Other Boleyn Girl" reaches back to the War of the Roses for more palace intrigue.
	8 DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.
	9 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.
	10 A GATE AT THE STAIRS, by Lorrie Moore. A Midwestern college student takes a job as a nanny with a couple on the eve of adoption, from the author of "Birds of America."

	1 TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy. The late senator’s autobiography.
	2 WHERE MEN WIN GLORY, by Jon Krakauer. The story of Pat Tillman, the NFL player who enlisted after 9/11, and the Army’s cover-up of his death by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
	3 OFFICIAL BOOK CLUB SELECTION, by Kathy Griffin. A humorous memoir from the star of “My Life on the D-List.”
	4 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunity — from the author of “Blink."
	5 CULTURE OF CORRUPTION, by Michelle Malkin. President Obama and his team of tax cheats, petty crooks, influence peddlers and Wall Street cronies.
	6 END THE FED, by Ron Paul. Abolishing the Federal Reserve, by the Texas congressman and presidential candidate.
	7 LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, by Mark R. Levin. A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.
	8 IN THE PRESIDENT’S SECRET SERVICE, by Ronald Kessler. Agents and the presidents they protect.
	9 SHOOTING STARS, by LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger. James and his friends as young basketball players; the co-author wrote “Friday Night Lights.”
	10 A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.