Friday, December 19, 2014

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    Last Week Combined Print & E-Book Fiction Weeks
on List
1 1 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy. 20
2 2 FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) Ana Steele learns more about Christian Grey’s troubled past; the second book in a trilogy. 20
3 3 FIFTY SHADES FREED, by E. L. James. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) The final book in an erotic trilogy. 19
4 SHADOW OF NIGHT, by Deborah Harkness. (Penguin Group.) An Oxford scholar/witch and a vampire geneticist pursue history, secrets and each other in Elizabethan London; Book 2 of the All Souls trilogy. 1
5 4 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown Publishing.) A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? 6
6 I, MICHAEL BENNETT, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown & Company.) A New York detective takes refuge with his 10 children in an upstate cabin. 1
7 BACKFIRE, by Catherine Coulter. (Penguin Group.) The F.B.I. agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock investigate the murder of a judge. 1
8 5 BARED TO YOU, by Sylvia Day. (Penguin Group.) Two troubled people develop an intense, obsessive relationship. 6
9 9 FIFTY SHADES TRILOGY, by E. L. James. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) The three “Fifty Shades” novels in one bundle. 13
10 THE GREAT ESCAPE, by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. (HarperCollins Publishers.) A young woman runs out on her wedding in search of herself — and a new man. 1
11 10 THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham. (Random House Publishing.) Partners in a small law firm take on a big case. 2
12 12 THE MARRIAGE BARGAIN, by Jennifer Probst. (Entangled Publishing.) A billionaire who needs a wife offers a one-year marriage in name only to a bookstore owner. 15
13 THE CHAPERONE, by Laura Moriarty. (Penguin Group.) A Midwestern matron who accompanies the soon-to-be silent film star Louise Brooks on a trip to New York experiences a feminist awakening. 1
14 8 THE NEXT BEST THING, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria Books.) A young woman who moves to Hollywood to make it in television finds success, but her life remains complicated. 2
15 SLAMMED, by Colleen Hoover. (Colleen Hoover.) A girl falls in love with a neighbor who enjoys slam poetry, but they encounter obstacles. 1

Also Selling

  1. CRIMINAL, by Karin Slaughter (Random House Publishing)
  2. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, by Deborah Harkness (Penguin Group)
  3. A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin (Random House Publishing)
  4. NIGHT WATCH, by Linda Fairstein (Penguin Group)
  5. WICKED BUSINESS, by Janet Evanovich (Random House Publishing)
  6. SUMMERLAND, by Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown & Company)
  7. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin (Random House Publishing)
  8. 11TH HOUR, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown & Company)
  9. THE NIGHT CIRCUS, by Erin Morgenstern (Knopf Doubleday Publishing)
  10. PRIVATE GAMES, by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan (Little, Brown & Company)
  11. THE INNOCENT, by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
  12. BLOODLINE, by James Rollins (HarperCollins Publishers)
  13. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, by Seth Grahame-Smith (Grand Central Publishing)
  14. A STORM OF SWORDS, by George R. R. Martin (Random House Publishing)
  15. SAFE HAVEN, by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
  16. A CLASH OF KINGS, by George R. R. Martin (Random House Publishing)
  17. SAMURAI GAME, by Christine Feehan (Penguin Group)
  18. POINT OF RETREAT, by Colleen Hoover (Colleen Hoover)
  19. A FEAST FOR CROWS, by George R. R. Martin (Random House Publishing)
  20. DEFENDING JACOB, by William Landay (Delacorte Press)
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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