The New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended Oct. 29. A “(b)” indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
FICTION
1. Worth Dying For, by Lee Child, $28
2. In the Company of Others,
by Jan Karon, $27.95
3. American Assassin,
by Vince Flynn, $27.99
4. The Girl Who Kicked the
Hornet’s Nest,
by Stieg Larsson, $27.95
5. Fall of Giants,
by Ken Follett, $36
6. Safe Haven,
by Nicholas Sparks, $25.99
7. The Reversal,
by Michael Connelly, $27.99
8. The Twelth Imam,
by Joel C. Rosenberg, $26.99
9. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk,
by David Sedaris, $21.99
10. Freedom,
by Jonathan Franzen, $28
NONFICTION
1. Earth (the Book), by
Jon Stewart and others, $27.99
2. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1, by Mark Twain, $34.95
3. Trickle Up Poverty,
by Michael Savage, $26.99
4. The Last Boy,
by Jane Leavy, $27.99
5. Pinheads and Patriots,
by Bill O’Reilly, $27.99
6. At Home, by Bill Bryson, $29.95
7. Extraordinary, Ordinary People, by Condoleezza Rice, $27
8. A——- Finish First,
by Tucker Max, $25.99
9. Obama’s Wars,
by Bob Woodward, $30
10. Washington,
by Ron Chernow, $40
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. Half Broke Horses,
by Jeannette Walls, $15
6. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, $14.99
7. Sarah’s Key,
by Tatiana de Rosnay, $13.95
8. Never Let Me Go,
by Kazuo Ishiguro, $15
9. The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson, $15
10. The Alchemist,
by Paulo Coelho, $14.99
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. Inside of a Dog,
by Alexandra Horowitz, $16
5. Freakonomics, by Steven D.
Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, $15.99
6. Accidental Billionaires,
by Ben Mezrich, $15.95
7. Dewey, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter, $13.99
8. Secretariat,
by William Nack, $16.99
9. My Horizontal Life,
by Chelsea Handler, $14.95
10. The Tipping Point,
by Malcolm Gladwell, $14.95
