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Best Sellers

May 27, 2012

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Inside the List

Toni Morrison, whose novel “Home” enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 9 this week, remembers being confronted by a stark image of race relations as a freshman at Howard University.

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Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

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This Week    Paperback Mass-Market Fiction Weeks
on List
1 THE LUCKY ONE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $7.99.) A Marine returning home sets out to track down the woman whose photo he found in Iraq. 24
2 BURIED PREY, by John Sandford. (Berkley, $9.99.) For 25 years the unsolved kidnapping of two girls has haunted the Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport. But now, their bodies have been found. 2
3 A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $8.99.) In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering; Book 1 of "A Song of Ice and Fire." 57
4 THE FIFTH WITNESS, by Michael Connelly. (Vision, $9.99.) Falling on tough times, Mickey Haller expands his legal practice into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. 3
5 VISION IN WHITE, by Nora Roberts. (Jove, $7.99.) A wedding photographer finds romance with the brother of a bride-to-be; Book 1 in the Bride Quartet series. 2
6 SUNRISE POINT, by Robyn Carr. (Mira, $7.99.) Tom, an ex-Marine, has come home to Virgin River, ready to settle down. But he can't explain his attraction to Nora, a single mother with a troubled past. 3
7 A CLASH OF KINGS, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $8.99.) 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." 48
8 ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, by Seth Grahame-Smith. (Grand Central, $7.99.) A journal reveals Lincoln’s valiant fight against the undead, a struggle that spilled onto the battlefields of the Civil War; by the author of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." 6
9 * A STORM OF SWORDS, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $8.99.) Wars continue to rage over the Iron Throne as alliances are made and broken; Book 3 of "A Song of Ice and Fire." 46
10 MYSTERY, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $9.99.) The Los Angeles psychologist-detective Alex Delaware and the detective Milo Sturgis work on a homicide case involving an enigmatic woman. 3
11 THE AFFAIR, by Lee Child. (Dell, $9.99.) It’s 1997 and the military cop Jack Reacher goes undercover in Mississippi to ferret out a possible scandal involving a soldier with powerful friends in Washington. 7
12 CHASING FIRE, by Nora Roberts. (Jove, $7.99.) After the loss of her partner, a smoke jumper faces a new season of firefighting in Montana with a talented rookie. 6
13 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $9.99.) In the last volume of the Millennium trilogy, Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are threatened by an adversary from deep within the government. 12
14 * THE LION, by Nelson DeMille. (Grand Central, $9.99.) John Corey, a federal agent, pursues Asad Khalil — the notorious Libyan terrorist known as the Lion — who has returned to America bent on revenge. 3
15 A FEAST FOR CROWS, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $8.99.) With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, the seven powers dividing the land have reached an uneasy truce; Book 4 of "A Song of Ice and Fire." 32
16 DEAD RECKONING, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $7.99.) Sookie Stackhouse witnesses the firebombing of the bar where she works and is drawn into her vampire lover’s murderous plot. 5
17 THE POSTCARD KILLERS, by James Patterson and Liza Marklund. (Vision, $9.99.) A New York City police detective and a Swedish reporter search for a killer preying on young couples in Europe. 6
18 I’LL WALK ALONE, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Pocket Books, $7.99.) An interior designer, haunted by the disappearance of her son, finds herself the victim of a deadly game of identity theft. 7
19 COMING UP ROSES, by Catherine Anderson. (Signet, $7.99.) In late-19th-century Oregon, a recently widowed woman struggles to make ends meet on her small farm while protecting a dark secret. 1
20 * THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $7.99.) In the second volume of the Millennium trilogy, the Swedish hacker Lisbeth Salander becomes a murder suspect. 85

Also Selling

  1. THE ISLAND, by Elin Hilderbrand (Back Bay/Little, Brown)
  2. UNDER A VAMPIRE MOON, by Lynsay Sands (Avon/HarperCollins)
  3. ROBERT AND CYBIL, by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)
  4. A TURN IN THE ROAD, by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
  5. MERCILESS, by Diana Palmer (HQN)
  6. THE SIXTH MAN, by David Baldacci (Vision)
  7. MCKETTRICK'S HEART, by Linda Lael Miller (HQN)
  8. COPYCAT KILLING, by Sofie Kelly (Signet)
  9. ENDER'S GAME, by Orson Scott Card (Tor)
  10. PREY, by Linda Howard (Ballantine)
  11. WHEN PASSION RULES, by Johanna Lindsey (Pocket Books)
  12. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
  13. SILENCED, by Allison Brennan (Minotaur)
  14. ESCAPE, by Barbara Delinsky (Anchor)
  15. MIDNIGHT SUN, by Kat Martin (Zebra)
About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the May 27, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending May 12, 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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