National best sellers
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. 9. A “(b)” indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
FICTION
1. The Affair,
by Lee Child, $28
2. 1225 Christmas Tree Lane, by Debbie Macomber, $16.95
3. Feast Day of Fools,
by James Lee Burke, $26.99
4. The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, $26.95
5. Lethal,
by Sandra Brown, $26.99
6. Aleph,
by Paulo Coelho, $24.95
7. Son of Stone,
by Stuart Woods, $26.95
8. A Dance With Dragons,
by George R.R. Martin, $35
9. New York to Dallas,
by J.D. Robb, $27.95
10. Heat Rises,
by Richard Castle, $25.99
NONFICTION
1. Killing Lincoln, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, $28
2. Jacqueline Kennedy:
Historic Conversations on
Life With John F. Kennedy,
by Caroline Kennedy, $60
3. Unbroken,
by Laura Hillenbrand, $27
4. Confidence Men,
by Ron Suskind, $29.99
5. Destiny of the Republic,
by Candice Millard, $28.95
6. That Used to Be Us, by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, $28
7. A Stolen Life,
by Jaycee Dugard, $24.99
8. In My Time, by Dick Cheney, with Liz Cheney, $35
9. Quest,
by Daniel Yergin, $37.95
10. In the Garden of Beasts,
by Erik Larson, $26
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Help,
by Kathryn Stockett, $16
2. Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay, $13.95
3. The Sixth Man,
by David Baldacci, $14.99
4. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, $15.95
5. Don’t Blink,
by James Patterson and
Howard Roughan, $14.99
6. Room, by Emma
Donoghue, $14.99
7. Freedom, by
Jonathan Franzen, $16
8. One Day,
by David Nicholls, $14.95
9. The Art of Racing in the
Rain, by Garth Stein, $14.99
10. Fall of Giants,
by Ken Follett, $25
PAPERBACK
NONFICTION
1. Heaven Is for Real,
by Todd Burpo with
Lynn Vincent, $16.99
2. Moneyball,
by Michael Lewis, $15.95
3. The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks, by
Rebecca Skloot, $16
4. Cleopatra,
by Stacy Schiff, $16.99
5. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, $16.99
6. The Glass Castle,
by Jeannette Walls, $15 (b)
7. Unlikely Friendships,
by Jennifer S. Holland, $13.95
8. The Boy Who Came Back
From Heaven, by Kevin Malarkey and Alex Malarkey, $15.99
9. The Zombie Survival Guide, by Max Brooks, $13.95
10. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson, $15.95
