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Fiction & Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers

	1 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons.
	2 A TOUCH OF DEAD, by Charlaine Harris. The complete Sookie Stackhouse stories.
	3 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi
	4 THE PROFESSIONAL, by Robert B. Parker. Rich women are turning up dead, and the Boston P.I. Spenser investigates.
	5 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.
	6 EVIDENCE, by Jonathan Kellerman. The Los Angeles psychologist-detective Alex Delaware helps solve the grisly murder of an architect and his companion.
	7 HALF BROKE HORSES, by Jeannette Walls. A re-creation of the life of the author’s grandmother, a mustang breaker, schoolteacher, ranch wife and mother of two who grew up in the Southwest in the early 20th century, by the author of “The Glass Castle.”
	8 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.
	9 ROUGH COUNTRY, by John Sandford. Virgil Flowers investigates a string of murders at a Minnesota resort for women.
	10 HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY, by Audrey Niffenegger. A woman haunts the flat she’s left to her twin nieces near Highgate Cemetery in London.

	1 HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.
	2 ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others. Making the case against big government.
	3 TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy. The late senator’s autobiography.
	4 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.
	5 THE MURDER OF KING TUT, by James Patterson and Martin Dugard. Investigating the Boy King’s sudden death.
	6 THE TIME OF MY LIFE, by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi. A memoir by the actor, who died in September, and his wife.
	7 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunity — from the author of “Blink."
	8 THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, by Richard Dawkins. Evidence for evolution; a counterattack on advocates of intelligent design.
	9 THE NATIONAL PARKS, by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. A companion to the PBS series.
	10 HALF THE SKY, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Women fighting sexual oppression in Asia and Africa.