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Best Sellers

October 02, 2011

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Best-Sell This!

Michael Moore, the director of films like “Roger & Me” and “Bowling for Columbine,” returns to the hardcover nonfiction list this week with “Here Comes Trouble,” which debuts at No. 8.


Inside the List

Michael Moore scores his fifth best seller this week as he enters the list at No. 8 with “Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life.”

Editors’ Choice

Recent books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.

Browse Past Lists

This Week    Last Week Hardcover Fiction Weeks
on List
1 NEW YORK TO DALLAS, by J. D. Robb. (Penguin Group, $27.95.) An escaped child molester pursues Lt. Eve Dallas; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously. 1
2 THE NIGHT CIRCUS, by Erin Morgenstern. (Doubleday, $26.95.) Two young rivals at a magical circus become collaborators as they fall in love. 1
3 1 KILL ME IF YOU CAN, by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) When a young man finds a bag of diamonds, he gets the attention of the major assassin the Ghost, and a rival assassin who wants the Ghost gone forever. 3
4 ABUSE OF POWER, by Michael Savage. (St. Martin‘s, $25.99.) A former war correspondent works to expose a terrorist group and a plot at the highest levels of power. 1
5 ROBERT B. PARKER’S KILLING THE BLUES, by Michael Brandman. (Putnam, $25.95.) Jesse Stone, the chief of police in Paradise, Mass., confronts an outbreak of murders; a continuation of the series by Parker, who died in 2010. 1
6 2 THE RACE, by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. (Putnam, $27.95.) It is 1910 and the age of flying machines is still in its infancy. Detective Isaac Bell’s new adventure is taking off. 2
7 4 A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $35.) After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire." 10
8 HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION, by David Weber. (Tor/Tom Doherty, $27.99.) The island empire of Charis fights to survive. 1
9 6 THE ART OF FIELDING, by Chad Harbach. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) A gifted but vulnerable ballplayer faces a crisis. 2
10 * GODDESS OF VENGEANCE, by Jackie Collins. (St. Martin‘s, $26.99.) Lucky Santangelo fends off a Middle Eastern prince who wants to buy her Las Vegas hotel complex. 1
11 10 THE PARIS WIFE, by Paula McLain. (Ballantine, $25.) Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, narrates this novel set in Paris. 25
12 3 DARK PREDATOR, by Christine Feehan. (Berkley, $26.95.) A master executioner who has had a long and savage journey returns home to Peru; a Carpathian novel. 2
13 11 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist. 69
14 16 ONLY TIME WILL TELL, by Jeffrey Archer. (St. Martin's, $27.99.) The first volume of the Clifton Chronicles tells the story of one family across generations and oceans. 3
15 STATE OF WONDER, by Ann Patchett. (Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99.) In Brazil, a medical researcher seeks her former mentor, who is developing a miracle fertility drug. 14
16 * 9 FLASH AND BONES, by Kathy Reichs. (Scribner, $26.99.) A turbocharged case unfolds for the forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan in the series behind the show "Bones." 4

Also Selling

  1. FORBIDDEN, by Ted Dekker (Center Street)
  2. THE LEFTOVERS, by Tom Perrotta (St. Martin's)
  3. PREY, by Linda Howard (Ballantine)
  4. A TRICK OF THE LIGHT, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
  5. THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (Ballantine)
  6. THE OMEN MACHINE, by Terry Goodkind (Tor/Tom Doherty)
  7. THE SOOKIE STACKHOUSE COMPANION, by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
  8. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett (Amy Einhorn/Putnam)
  9. THE BALLAD OF TOM DOOLEY, by Sharyn McCrumb (Thomas Dunne)
  10. PIRATE KING, by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
  11. RULES OF CIVILITY, by Amor Towles (Viking)
  12. COLD VENGEANCE, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central)
  13. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
  14. THE VAULT, by Ruth Rendell (Scribner)
  15. THE DOG WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, by Spencer Quinn (Atria)
  16. THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC, by Julie Otsuka (Knopf)
  17. THE MEASURE OF THE MAGIC, by Terry Brooks (Del Rey/Ballantine)
  18. FULL BLACK, by Brad Thor (Atria)
  19. VICTORY AND HONOR, by W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV (Putnam)
About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the October 2, 2011 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 17, 2011.

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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