PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS
By APThursday, December 10, 2009
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. “The Search” by Nora Roberts (Putnam)
2. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
3. “Private” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)
4. “Sizzling Sixteen” by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s)
5. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn)
6. “The Overton Window” by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)
7. “The Passage” by Justin Cronin (Ballantine)
8. “Foreign Influence: A Thriller” by Brad Thor (Atria)
9. “The Lion” by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central Publishing)
10. “The Island” by Elin Hilderbrand (L,B/Reagan Arthur Books)
11. “Family Ties” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
12. “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet” by David Mitchell (Random House)
13. “Ice Cold: A Rizzoli and Isles Novel” by Tess Gerritsen (Ballantine)
14. “Dead in the Family” by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
15. “Undead and Unfinished” by MaryJanice Davidson (Berkley)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. “Sh t My Dad Says” by Justin Halpern (It Books)
2. “Coming Back Stronger” by Drew Brees with Chris Fabry (Tyndale)
3. “Sliding into Home” by Kendra Wilkinson (Gallery)
4. “Women Food and God” by Geneen Roth (Scribner)
5. “Medium Raw” by Anthony Bourdain (Ecco)
6. “Delivering Happiness” by Tony Hsieh (Business Plus)
7. “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang” by Chelsea Handler (Grand Central Publishing)
8. “The Big Short” by Michael Lewis (Norton)
9. “War” by Sebastian Junger (Twelve)
10. “Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life” by Sean Payton and Ellis Henican (New American Library)
11. “Empire of the Summer Moon” by S.C. Gwynne (Scribner)
12. “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch (Hyperion)
13. “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)
14. “Spoken from the Heart” by Laura Bush (Scribner)
15. “The Last Stand” by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
2. “The Girl Who Played with Fire” by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
3. “Knockout” by Catherine Coulter (Jove)
4. “McKettricks of Texas: Austin” by Linda Lael Miller (HQN)
5. “The Lucky One” by Nicholas Sparks (Vision)
6. “Finger Lickin’ Fifteen” by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s)
7. “Love in the Afternoon” by Lisa Kleypas (St. Martin’s)
8. “Chains of Ice” by Christina Dodd (Signet)
9. “The Neighbor” by Lisa Gardner (Bantam)
10. “The Defector” by Daniel Silva (Signet)
11. “Charlie St. Cloud” by Ben Sherwood (Bantam)
12. “The Darkest Lie” by Gena showalter (HQN)
13. “Game Over” by Fern Michaels (Zebra)
14. “Bonds of Justice” by Nalini Singh (Berkley)
15. “In Other Worlds” by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Berkley)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
2. “The Girl Who Played with Fire” by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
3. “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
4. “Little Bee” by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster)
5. “Under the Dome” by Stephen King (Pocket)
6. “Swimsuit” by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Grand Central Publishing)
7. “Best Friends Forever” by Jennifer Weiner (Washington Square Press)
8. “One Day” by David Nicholls (Vintage)
9. “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
10. “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel” by Garth Stein (Harper)
11. “A Reliable Wife” by Robert Goolrick (Algonquin)
12. “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)
13. “My Horizontal Life” by Chelsea Handler (Vintage)
14. “Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea” by Chelsea Handler (Gallery)
15. “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)
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