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Fiction & Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers

	1 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons.
	2 AN ECHO IN THE BONE, by Diana Gabaldon. Jamie Fraser and his time-traveling wife, Claire, encounter pirates on the high seas; the seventh Outlander novel.
	3 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.
	4 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi
	5 HOTHOUSE ORCHID, by Stuart Woods. A C.I.A. special agent finds that much has changed, and not for the better, when she returns to her Florida hometown.
	6 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."
	7 ALEX CROSS’S TRIAL, by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo.
	8 THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD, by Margaret Atwood. In a violent future society, survivors of a catastrophic pandemic make their way.
	9 HARDBALL, by Sara Paretsky. Searching for an old woman’s missing son, V. I. Warshawski, the Chicago private investigator, is plunged into the politics of the 1960s.
	10 SPARTAN GOLD, by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood. Husband-and-wife treasure hunters search for bottles of wine from Napoleon’s “lost cellar.”

	1 ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others. Making the case against big government.
	2 TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy. The late senator’s autobiography.
	3 HIGH ON ARRIVAL, by Mackenzie Phillips with Hilary Liftin. The actress and daughter of Papa John Phillips recalls a life of parties, drugs and a complicated relationship with her father.
	4 AMERICAN ON PURPOSE, by Craig Ferguson. The Scottish-born comedian describes his journey to late-night television stardom and American citizenship.
	5 THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, by Richard Dawkins. Evidence for evolution; a counterattack on advocates of intelligent design.
	6 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.
	7 OFFICIAL BOOK CLUB SELECTION, by Kathy Griffin. A humorous memoir from the star of “My Life on the D-List.”
	8 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunity — from the author of “Blink."
	9 CULTURE OF CORRUPTION, by Michelle Malkin. President Obama and his team of tax cheats, petty crooks, influence peddlers and Wall Street cronies.
	10 THE CASE FOR GOD, by Karen Armstrong. Armstrong, a former nun, seeks to rescue the idea of God from atheists and literal-minded believers alike.