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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 KISSER, by Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, pursues a case of financial fraud on the Upper East Side. |
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4 BLOOD TIES, by Kay Hooper. The F.B.I. agent Noah Bishop and his special crimes unit pursue a brutal enemy. |
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5 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. |
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6 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.” |
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7 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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8 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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9 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect. |
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10 ROSES, by Leila Meacham. Three generations in a small East Texas town. |
NonFiction
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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. |
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2 I AM OZZY, by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres. Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.” |
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3 THE POLITICIAN, by Andrew Young. A tell-all by John Edwards’s closest aide. |
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4 COMMITTED, by Elizabeth Gilbert. The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage. |
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5 HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief. |
| 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 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. |
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8 JUST KIDS, by Patti Smith. The godmother of punk recalls her life with Robert Mapplethorpe and their yearnings for a life in art in the New York City of the 1960s and ’70s. |
| 9 COURTING DISASTER, by Marc A. Thiessen. “Enhanced interrogation” saved American lives and Obama is risking them, a Bush speechwriter says. | |
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10 THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO, by Atul Gawande. Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues. |
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