Thursday, December 12, 2013

Best Sellers

April 08, 2012

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Inside the List

Anne Lamott, whose new book enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 9, is dispensing her daffy, neurotic, inspirational punch lines on Twitter.

Editors’ Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.

Browse Past Lists

This Week    Paperback Trade Fiction Weeks
on List
1 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $15.95.) In the last volume of the Millennium trilogy, Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are threatened by an adversary from deep within the government. 5
2 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Berkley, $16.) Three women — a white socialite and two black maids — work on a tell-all book about black domestic servants in 1960s Mississippi. 51
3 * THE LUCKY ONE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $13.99.) A Marine returning home sets out to track down the woman whose photo he found in Iraq. 17
4 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $14.95.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress; the first volume in the Millennium trilogy. 144
5 THE TIGER'S WIFE, by Téa Obreht. (Random House, $15.) Fable and allegory illustrate the complexities of Balkan history, as a young doctor unravels the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s death. 21
6 THE WEIRD SISTERS, by Eleanor Brown. (Berkley, $15.) The quarrelsome Andreas sisters — staid Rose, fast-living Bean and bohemian Cordy — have returned to their childhood home to face their parents’ frailty and their own personal disappointments. 7
7 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James. (Vintage, $19.99.) An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy. 3
8 * A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $17.) In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering; Book 1 of "A Song of Ice and Fire." 28
9 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $15.95.) In Volume 2 of the Millennium trilogy, the Swedish hacker Lisbeth Salander becomes a murder suspect. 94
10 EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, by Jonathan Safran Foer. (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, $14.95.) A precocious boy goes on a scavenger hunt through New York’s five boroughs in search of the lock that fits a key belonging to his father, who died on Sept. 11. 14
11 * CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese. (Vintage, $15.95.) Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia. 113
12 THE HARBINGER, by Jonathan Cahn. (FrontLine, $16.99.) A man tells of his encounters with a mysterious figure who has given him a series of messages that hold the secret of America’s future. 12
13 KILL ME IF YOU CAN, by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. (Grand Central, $14.99.) A young man who finds a bag of diamonds in New York City is stalked by rival assassins. 5
14 * THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein. (Harper Paperbacks, $14.99.) An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver. 146
15 ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, by Seth Grahame-Smith. (Grand Central, $13.99.) A journal reveals Lincoln’s fight against the undead; by the author of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." 4
16 BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP, by S. J. Watson. (Harper Perennial, $14.99.) After a mysterious accident, an amnesiac can’t remember her past or form new memories, and tries to uncover the truth about who she is. 5
17 * THE HOUSE AT TYNEFORD, by Natasha Solomons. (Plume, $15.) In 1938, a Jewish refugee from Vienna forms a momentous friendship at the English manor house where she must work as a maid. 1
18 DREAMS OF JOY, by Lisa See. (Random House, $15.) Angry at her mother and aunt over family secrets, a strong-willed young woman runs away to Shanghai in 1957 in search of her birth father. 6
19 A CLASH OF KINGS, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $17.) From the citadel of Dragonstone to the shores of Winterfell, factions vie for control of a divided land; Book 2 of "A Song of Ice and Fire." 10
20 HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET, by Jamie Ford. (Ballantine, $15.) A friendship between a Chinese-American boy and a Japanese-American girl in Seattle during World War II. 75

Also Selling

  1. WORLD WAR Z, by Max Brooks (Three Rivers)
  2. THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne)
  3. RAINSHADOW ROAD, by Lisa Kleypas (St. Martin’s Griffin)
  4. SAVE ME, by Lisa Scottoline (St. Martin’s Griffin)
  5. THE KITCHEN HOUSE, by Kathleen Grissom (Touchstone)
  6. THE PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS, by Edward St. Aubyn (Picador)
  7. 10TH ANNIVERSARY, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Grand Central)
  8. LETHAL, by Sandra Brown (Grand Central)
  9. THE DESCENDANTS, by Kaui Hart Hemmings (Random House)
  10. THE SATURDAY BIG TENT WEDDING PARTY, by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor)
  11. THE NEXT ALWAYS, by Nora Roberts (Berkley)
  12. CLARA AND MR. TIFFANY, by Susan Vreeland (Random House)
  13. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, by Deborah Harkness (Penguin)
  14. SARAH’S KEY, by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin’s Griffin)
  15. ROOM, by Emma Donoghue (Back Bay/Little, Brown)
About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the April 8, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending March 24, 2012.

An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.
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