The New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended Sept. 9. A “(b)” indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
FICTION
1. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen, $28
2. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson, $27.95
3. Dark Peril, by Christine Feehan, $25.95
4. Lost Empire, by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood, $27.95
5. The Postcard Killers, by James Patterson and Liza Marklund, $27.99
6. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, $24.95
7. The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson, $27.99
8. Spider Bones, by Kathy Reichs, $26.99
9. Body Work, by Sara Paretsky, $26.95
10. Star Island, by Carl Hiaasen, $26.95
NONFICTION
1. Crimes Against Liberty, by David Limbaugh, $29.95 (b).
2. S – – – My Dad Says, by Justin Halpern, $15.99
3. A Journey, by Tony Blair, $35
4. The Perfection Point, by John Brenkus, $26.99
5. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, $27.99
6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, $26
7. Let’s Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell, $23
8. Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne, $27.50
9. The Big Short, by Michael Lewis, $27.95
10. Committed, by Elizabeth Gilbert, $26.95
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, $14.95
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson, $15.95
3. Little Bee, by Chris Cleave, $14
4. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, $15.95
5. Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $13.95
6. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, $14.99
7. Ford County, by John Grisham, $15
8. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, $14.99
9. A Gate At the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore, $15
10. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver, $16.99
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert, $15
2. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, $15
3. The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls, $15 (b)
4. Where Men Win Glory, by Jon Krakauer, $15.95
5. Open, by Andre Agassi, $15.95
6. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, by Rhoda Janzen, $14
7. My Horizontal Life, by Chelsea Handler, $14.95
8. Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, by Chelsea Handler, $16
9. Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, $15.99
9. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell, $15.99
10. Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, $15.95
