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Fiction & Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers

	1 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons.
	2 THE SCARPETTA FACTOR, by Patricia Cornwell. Apparent threats on Kay Scarpetta’s life make her hesitate when a TV producer wants her to star in a show.
	3 PURSUIT OF HONOR, by Vince Flynn. The counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp must teach politicians about national security following a new Qaeda attack.
	4 NINE DRAGONS, by Michael Connelly. The Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch fights crime at home and in Hong Kong.
	5 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi
	6 HEAT WAVE, by Richard Castle. An N.Y.P.D. homicide detective investigates the death of a real estate tycoon and flirts with a magazine journalist.
	7 WOLF HALL, by Hilary Mantel. Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell clash in Henry VIII’s turbulent court.
	8 SOUTHERN LIGHTS, by Danielle Steel. When a New York prosecutor’s daughter is threatened, she sends her back to the Charleston world she herself fled.
	9HALF 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.”
	10 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.

	1 HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.
	2 SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel.
	3 WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell. A decade of New Yorker essays.
	4 TOO BIG TO FAIL, by Andrew Ross Sorkin. The 2008 financial implosion on Wall Street and in Washington, by a New York Times reporter and columnist.
	5 ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others. Making the case against big government.
	6 HIGHEST DUTY, by Chesley B. Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow. The importance of preparing for the unexpected, by the pilot-hero of Flight 1549.
	7 TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy. The late senator’s autobiography.
	8 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunity — from the author of “Blink."
	9 THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, by Richard Dawkins. Evidence for evolution; a counterattack on advocates of intelligent design.
	10 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.