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Fiction & Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers

Fiction

1 1 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi
1 2 THE FIRST RULE, by Robert Crais. Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, set out to clear the reputation of a former military contractor who has been murdered.
1 3 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons.
1 4 THE SWAN THIEVES, by Elizabeth Kostova. A psychiatrist who treats a man who slashed a canvas in the National Gallery is drawn into the world of French Impressionism; from the author of “The Historian.”
1 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.
1 6 I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson. Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets.
1 7 IMPACT, by Douglas Preston. Scientists race to defuse a doomsday weapon pointed at Earth from one of the moons of Mars.
1 8 TREASURE HUNT, by John Lescroart. A young San Francisco private investigator discovers some unpleasant facts when a well-known fund-raiser is murdered.
1 9 NOAH’S COMPASS, by Anne Tyler. A retired teacher with a head injury struggles to regain his memory and his engagement in life.
1 10 DEEPER THAN THE DEAD, by Tami Hoag. An F.B.I. investigator and a teacher track a series of murders in California in 1985.

NonFiction

1 1 GAME CHANGE, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. Behind the scenes at the 2008 election with Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John and Elizabeth Edwards, John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1 2 COMMITTED, by Elizabeth Gilbert. The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.
1 3 HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.
1 4 GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin. A memoir by the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate.
1 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."
1 7 THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO, by Atul Gawande. Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues.
1 8 SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel.
1 9 DRIVE, by Daniel H. Pink. What really motivates people is the quest for autonomy, mastery and purpose, not external rewards.
1 10 WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell. A decade of New Yorker essays.

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Thanks, lots of good books there for me to read.  My wife is reading Noah’s Compass and she seems to be enjoying it.

Posted by Bill Ludwig

January 28, 2010 at 11:37 AM

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