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. 16. A “(b)” indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
FICTION
1. Shock Wave,
by John Sandford, $27.95
2. The Affair,
by Lee Child, $28
3. Survivors, by
James Wesley Rawles, $24
4. Neverwinter,
by R. A. Salvatore, $27.95
5. The Night Circus,
by Erin Morgenstern, $26.95
6. Lethal,
by Sandra Brown, $26.99
7. Aleph,
by Paulo Coelho, $24.95
8. 1225 Christmas Tree Lane,
by Debbie Macomber, $16.95
9. A Dance With Dragons,
by George R.R. Martin, $35
10. Feast Day of Fools,
by James Lee Burke, $26.99
NONFICTION
1. Killing Lincoln,
by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, $28
2. Boomerang,
by Michael Lewis, $25.95
3. Seriously … I’m Kidding,
by Ellen DeGeneres, $26.99
4. This is Herman Cain!,
by Herman Cain, $25
5. Jacqueline Kennedy:
Historic Conversations on
Life With John F. Kennedy, by Caroline Kennedy, $60
6. Unbroken,
by Laura Hillenbrand, $27
7. That Used to Be Us,
by Thomas L. Friedman
and Michael Mandelbaum, $28
8. Confidence Men,
by Ron Suskind, $29.99
9. Destiny of the Republic,
by Candice Millard, $28.95
10. A Stolen Life,
by Jaycee Dugard, $24.99
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Help,
by Kathryn Stockett, $16
2. Sarah’s Key, by
Tatiana de Rosnay, $13.95
3. Cutting for Stone,
by Abraham Verghese, $15.95
4. Room, by Emma
Donoghue, $14.99
5. The Sixth Man,
by David Baldacci, $14.99
6. Freedom, by
Jonathan Franzen, $16
7. The Fifth Witness,
by Michael Connelly, $14.99
8. Dead or Alive,
by Tom Clancy with
Grant Blackwood, $18
9. Don’t Blink,
by James Patterson and
Howard Roughan, $14.99
10. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, $14.99
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 Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson, $16.95
7. The Glass Castle,
by Jeannette Walls, $15 (b)
8. At Home,
by Bill Bryson, $15.95
9. The Zombie Survival
Guide, by Max Brooks, $13.95
10. Unlikely Friendships,
by Jennifer S. Holland, $13.95
