This week’s best sellers from Publishers Weekly
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 7, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2009 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Ford County. John Grisham. Doubleday, $24
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. The Lost Symbol. Dan Brown. Doubleday, $29.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 8
3. Kindred in Death. J.D.Robb. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
4. The Gathering Storm. Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson. Tor, $29.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
5. True Blue. David Baldacci. Grand Central, $27.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2
6. The Lacuna. Barbara Kingsolver. Harper, $26.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
7. The Help. Kathryn Stockett. Putnam/Amy Einhorn, $24.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 23
8. The Scarpetta Factor. Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $27.95
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 3
9. Pursuit of Honor. Vince Flynn. Atria, $27.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 4
10. Last Night in Twisted River. John Irving. Random House, $28
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 2
11. Nine Dragons. Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 4
12. No Less Than Victory. Jeff Shaara. Ballantine, $28
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
13. Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel. Holt, $27
Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 4
14. The Last Song. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $24.99
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 9
15. Half Broke Horses. Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $26
Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 5
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Have a Little Faith. Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $23.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 6
2. It’s Your Time. Joel Osteen. Free Press, $25
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
3. SuperFreakonomics. Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner. Morrow, $29.99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3
4. Arguing with Idiots. Glenn Beck. Threshold Editions, $29.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 7
5. What the Dog Saw. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 3
6. The Book of Basketball. Bill Simmons. Ballantine/ESPN, $30
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
7. Outliers. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 50
8. The Audacity to Win. David Plouffe. Viking, $27.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
9. The Sellout. Charles Gasparino. HarperBusiness, $27.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
10. When the Game Was Ours. Larry Bird & Earvin “Magic” Johnson. HMH, $26
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
11. The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Ree Drummond. Morrow, $27.50
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 2
12. Too Big to Fail. Andrew Ross Sorkin. Viking, $32.95
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 3
13. Knockout. Suzanne Somers. Crown, $25.99
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 3
14. The Time of My Life. Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi. Atria, $26
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 4
15. True Compass. Edward M. Kennedy. Twelve, $35
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 8
MASS MARKET
1. Born of Fire. Sherrilyn Kenyon. St. Martin’s, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. The Associate. John Grisham. Dell, $9.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 7
3. The Untamed Bride. Stephanie Laurens. Avon, $7.99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2
4. Cross Country. James Patterson. Vision, $9.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 6
5. Your Heart Belongs to Me. Dean Koontz. Bantam, $9.99
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 2
6. Angels at Christmas. Debbie Macomber. Mira, $7.99
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 2
7. Deadlock. Iris Johansen. St. Martin’s, $7.99
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 3
8. Blaze of Memory. Nalini Singh. Berkley, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
9. Me and My Shadow. Katie MacAlister. Signet, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
10. Hot on Her Heels. Susan Mallery. HQN, $7.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 2
11. Star Wars 501st: Imperial Commando. Karen Traviss.Del Rey/LucasBooks, $7.99
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 2
12. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction. David Michaels.Berkley, $9.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
13. Heat Lightning. John Sandford. Berkley, $9.99
Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 5
14. Snow Angels. Fern Michaels, Marie Bostwick,. Janna McMahan, & Rosalind Noonan. Zebra, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
15. The Lovely Bones. Alice Sebold. Little, Brown, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 2
TRADE
1. Push. Sapphire. Vintage, $13
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 8
2. Bed of Roses. Nora Roberts. Berkley, $16
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
3. Say You’re One of Them. Uwem Akpan. L,B/Back Bay, $14.99
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 8
4. The Shack. William P. Young. Windblown Media, $14. 99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 83
5. Olive Kitteridge. Elizabeth Strout. Random House, $14
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 26
6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Stieg Larsson. Vintage, $14.95
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 20
7. The Time Traveler’s Wife. Audrey Niffenegger. Mariner Books, $14.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 70
8. The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $15
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 81
9. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Mary Ann Shafferand Annie Barrows. Dial, $14
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 27
10. The Blind Side. Michael Lewis. Norton, $13.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
11. The Art of Racing in the Rain. Garth Stein. Harper, $14.99
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 22
12. Our Choice. Al Gore. Rodale, $26.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
13. Run for Your Life. James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. Grand Central, $14.99
Last Week: 11; Weels on List: 1
15. Freakonomics. Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner. Harper Perennial, $15.99
Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 4