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Fiction & Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers
Fiction
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1 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi |
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2 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons. |
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3 NOAH’S COMPASS, by Anne Tyler. A retired teacher with a head injury struggles to regain his memory and his engagement in life. |
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4 IMPACT, by Douglas Preston. Scientists race to defuse a doomsday weapon pointed at Earth from one of the moons of Mars. |
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5 I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson. Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets. |
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6 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. |
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7 DEEPER THAN THE DEAD, by Tami Hoag. An F.B.I. investigator and a teacher track a series of murders in California in 1985. |
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8 SIZZLE, by Julie Garwood. A film student who witnessed a crime is aided by a handsome F.B.I. agent. |
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9 THE HONOR OF SPIES, by W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. An O.S.S. agent seeks information from a German prisoner of war; the fifth book in the Honor Bound series. |
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10 UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King. When a Maine town is trapped by an invisible force field, a sanctimonious and hypocritical politician takes over. |
NonFiction
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1 COMMITTED, by Elizabeth Gilbert. The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage. |
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2 HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief. |
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3 THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO, by Atul Gawande. Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues. |
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4 GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin. A memoir by the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate. |
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5 STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson. Building schools, many of them for girls, in northeast Afghanistan; takes up where “Three Cups of Tea” left off. |
| 6 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunity — from the author of “Blink." | |
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7 SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel. |
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8 WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell. A decade of New Yorker essays. |
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9 DRIVE, by Daniel H. Pink. What really motivates people is the quest for autonomy, mastery and purpose, not external rewards. |
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10 OPEN, by Andre Agassi. The tennis champion’s autobiography. |
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