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Best Sellers

October 07, 2012

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Inside the List

Michael Chabon’s best-selling new novel, “Telegraph Avenue,” started out a dozen years ago as an unproduced television pilot.

Editors’ Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.

Browse Past Lists

This Week    Paperback Nonfiction Weeks
on List
1 THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. (Broadway, $16.) A woman’s cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951. 81
2 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson, $16.99.) A boy’s encounter with Jesus and the angels. 97
3 THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner, $16.) The author recalls her bizarre childhood. (†) 289
4 * CATHERINE THE GREAT, by Robert K. Massie. (Random House, $20.) The life of the minor 18th-century German princess who became Empress of All the Russias. 1
5 IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson. (Broadway, $16.) William E. Dodd, the United States ambassador to Germany, and his daughter, Martha, in 1930s Berlin. 21
6 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $16.99.) Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent. 68
7 BOOMERANG, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $16.95.) A look at some of the places hardest hit by the financial collapse of 2008. 3
8 BOSSYPANTS, by Tina Fey. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $15.99.) The “30 Rock” creator’s memoir. 38
9 * THE SWERVE, by Stephen Greenblatt. (Norton, $16.95.) A Renaissance book hunter rediscovered Lucretius’ classic “On the Nature of Things” and kept it from disappearing. 3
10 BILLIONAIRES AND BALLOT BANDITS, by Greg Palast. Illustrated by Ted Rall. (Seven Stories, $14.95.) An investigation into the workings of big money and vote manipulation in politics. 1
11 KISSES FROM KATIE, by Katie Davis with Beth Clark. (Howard, $15.99.) A young woman gives up everything she knows to care for Ugandans. 3
12 * HOW TO BE A WOMAN, by Caitlin Moran. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) An approach to feminism that's part memoir, part polemic. 10
13 IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME?, by Mindy Kaling. (Three Rivers, $14.) The comedian and actress from "The Office" offers essays about her life. 1
14 THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, by Erik Larson. (Vintage, $15.95.) A story of how an architect and a serial killer were linked by the World’s Fair of 1893. 235
15 ARGUABLY, by Christopher Hitchens. (Twelve, $18.) From Hitchens, a collection of essays bearing “the full consciousness that they might be my very last.” 3
16 THE NEW JIM CROW, by Michelle Alexander. (New Press, $19.95.) Taking aim at the “war on drugs” and its impact on black men. 36
17 BORN TO RUN, by Christopher McDougall. (Vintage, $15.95.) Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe. 78
18 * MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN, by Joshua Foer. (Penguin, $16.) A journalist who covered a mnemonics championship tries competing himself. 16
19 FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) How to apply economic theory to almost everything. 106
20 INSIDE OF A DOG, by Alexandra Horowitz. (Scribner, $16.) The world from a dog's point of view. 62

Also Selling

  1. A STOLEN LIFE, by Jaycee Dugard (Simon & Schuster)
  2. THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE, by Max Brooks (Three Rivers)
  3. THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown)
  4. THAT USED TO BE US, by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum (Picador/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  5. LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson (Back Bay/Little, Brown)
  6. BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown)
  7. AMERITOPIA, by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions)
  8. THE EIGHTY-DOLLAR CHAMPION, by Elizabeth Letts (Ballantine)
  9. AN INVISIBLE THREAD, by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski (Howard)
  10. THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA, by Michael Pollan (Penguin)
  11. INCOGNITO, by David Eagleman (Vintage)
  12. DRIVE, by Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead)
  13. CALL THE MIDWIFE, by Jennifer Worth (Penguin)
  14. 1493, by Charles C. Mann (Vintage)
  15. WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GO TO WAR, by Karl Marlantes (Grove/Atlantic)
About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the October 7, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 22, 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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