Monday, May 20, 2013

Best Sellers

July 29, 2012

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Inside the List

“Six Weeks to OMG,” which enters the list at No. 4 this week, is a diet book that recommends cold baths and black coffee.

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 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James. (Vintage, $15.95.) An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy. 18
2 FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James. (Vintage, $15.95.) Daunted by Christian’s dark secrets, Anastasia ends their relationship — but desire still dominates her every thought; the second book in a trilogy. 15
3 FIFTY SHADES FREED, by E. L. James. (Vintage, $15.95.) Reunited, Anastasia and Christian face a world of possibilities, and unexpected challenges; the final volume in a trilogy. 15
4 BARED TO YOU, by Sylvia Day. (Berkley, $15.) Eva and Gideon, recovering from difficult pasts, develop an intense, obsessive relationship. 5
5 THE NIGHT CIRCUS, by Erin Morgenstern. (Anchor, $15.) At a magical circus that whirls through major cities at the turn of the 20th century, two young rivals become collaborators as they fall in love. 2
6 THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham. (Bantam, $16.) Partners in a small law firm take on a big case after a fast-track burnout joins them. 3
7 A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, by Deborah Harkness. (Penguin, $16.) The recovery of a lost ancient manuscript in a library at Oxford sets a fantastical underworld stirring. 8
8 * RULES OF CIVILITY, by Amor Towles. (Penguin, $16.) A chance encounter and its consequences provide a 25-year-old woman access to the New York social circle in the 1930s. 3
9 THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne, $14.99.) In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny. 227
10 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. 28
11 * STATE OF WONDER, by Ann Patchett. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) In the Amazon basin, a medical researcher seeks her former mentor, a despotic scientist who is developing a miracle fertility drug. 10
12 ON THE ISLAND, by Tracey Garvis Graves. (Plume, $15.) An English teacher and the teenage boy she has agreed to tutor are stranded on an island when the seaplane taking them to join his family in the Maldives crashes in the Indian Ocean. 1
13 * 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." 43
14 THE SENSE OF AN ENDING, by Julian Barnes. (Vintage International, $14.95.) An unexpected bequest causes a man in his 60s to question his understanding of the past; winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize. 7
15 * PRIVATE GAMES, by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan. (Grand Central, $14.99.) A journalist and a member of the Private investigative firm pursue a murderer who is trying to destroy the London Olympics. 2
16 MAINE, by J. Courtney Sullivan. (Vintage Contemporaries, $15.95.) Three generations of a family’s women take guilt, secrets and old wounds on a beach retreat. 7
17 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." 20
18 THE ART OF FIELDING, by Chad Harbach. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.99.) At a small college in Wisconsin, a gifted but vulnerable baseball player faces a crisis. 11
19 THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. (Ballantine, $15.) A young woman’s gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others, even during her struggles with her own troubled past. 10
20 WOLF HALL, by Hilary Mantel. (Picador, $16.) Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell clash in the court of Henry VIII; winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize. 16

Also Selling

  1. THE LAST BOYFRIEND, by Nora Roberts (Berkley)
  2. COMING HOME, by Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan)
  3. THE TIGER'S WIFE, by Téa Obreht (Random House)
  4. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett (Berkley)
  5. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
  6. THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
  7. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein (Harper Paperbacks)
  8. KILL ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson (Grand Central)
  9. READY PLAYER ONE, by Ernest Cline (Broadway)
  10. THE FLIGHT OF GEMMA HARDY, by Margot Livesey (Harper Perennial)
  11. SAVAGES, by Don Winslow (Simon & Schuster)
  12. CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)
  13. ALEPH, by Paulo Coelho (Vintage)
  14. THE LEOPARD, by Jo Nesbø (Vintage)
  15. THE KITCHEN HOUSE, by Kathleen Grissom (Touchstone)
About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the July 29, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending July 14, 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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