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. 17. 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. No Mercy, by Sherrilyn Kenyon, $24.99
4. Getting to Happy, by Terry McMillan, $27.95
5. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, $24.95
6. The Postcard Killers, by James Patterson and Liza Marklund, $27.99
7. Lost Empire, by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood, $27.95
8. Ape House, by Sara Gruen, $26
9. Zero History, by William Gibson, $26.95
10. Dark Peril, by Christine Feehan, $25.95
NONFICTION
1. The Grand Design, by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, $28
2. Crimes Against Liberty, by David Limbaugh, $29.95 (b).
3. A Journey, by Tony Blair, $35
4. S – – – My Dad Says, by Justin Halpern, $15.99
5. Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson, $30
6. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, $27.99
7. The Big Short, by Michael Lewis, $27.95
8. Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne, $27.50
9. Bob Dylan in America, by Sean Wilentz, $28.95
10. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, $26
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. Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls, $15
5. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, $15.95
6. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, $14.99
7. Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $13.95
8. Ford County, by John Grisham, $15
9. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, $14.99
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. Open, by Andre Agassi, $15.95
5. Where Men Win Glory, by Jon Krakauer, $15.95
6. My Horizontal Life, by Chelsea Handler, $14.95
7. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, by Rhoda Janzen, $14
8. Too Big to Fail, by Andrew Ross Sorkin, $18
9. Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, by Chelsea Handler, $16
10. Traveling With Pomegranates, by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor, $15
