The Week's Hottest Reads: Publishers Weekly Bestsellers
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "The Reversal" by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
2. "Fall of Giants" by Ken Follett (Dutton)
3. "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
4. "The Girl Who Kicked the Nornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
5. "Safe Haven" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
6. "Don't Blink" by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown)
7. "Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary" by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
8. "Painted Ladies" by Robert B. Parker (Putnam)
9. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn)
10. "Bad Blood: A Virgil Flowers Novel" by John Sandford (Putnam Adult)
11. "Promise Me" by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster)
12. "Legacy: A Novel" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press)
13. "Getting to Happy" by Terry McMillan (Viking)
14. "Gauntlgrym" by Robert A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast)
15. "Room: A Novel" by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. "Obama's Wars" by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)
2. "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth: A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race" by Jon Stewart (Grand Central Publishing)
3. "Trickle Up Poverty" by Michael Savage (Morrow)
4. "Divine Transformation" by Zhi Gang Sha (Atria)
5. "The Roots of Obama's Rage" by Dinesh D'Souza (Regnery)
6. "A--holes Finish First" by Tucker Max (Gallery)
7. "At Home" by Bill Bryson (Doubleday)
8. "Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama" by Bill O'Reilly (William Morrow)
9. "Washington" by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press)
10. "The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (Bantam)
11. "The Moral Landscape" by Sam Harris (Free Press)
12. "Love, Lust & Faking It: The Naked Truth About Sex, Lies, and True Romance" by Jenny McCarthy (Harper)
13. "The Coming Economic Armageddon: What Bible Prophecy Warns About the New Global Economy" by David Jeremiah (FaithWords)
14. "Is It Just Me?" by Whoopi Goldberg (Hyperion)
15. "Sh t My Dad Says" by Justin Halpern (It Books)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "Crave" by J.R. Ward (Signet)
2. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
3. "61 Hours: A Reacher Novel" by Lee Child (Dell)
4. "I, Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Vision)
5. "Styx's Storm" by Lora Leigh (Berkley)
6. "The Girl Who Played with Fire" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
7. "Play Dead" by Harlen Coben (Signet)
8. "Pirate Latitudes" by Michael Crichton (Harper)
9. "Rough Country" by John Sandford (Berkley)
10. "Ford County: Stories" by John Grisham (Dell)
11. "Taken by Midnight: A Midnight Breed Novel" by Lara Adrian (Dell)
12. "Gathering Storm" by Robert Jordan and B randon Sanderson (Tor)
13. "Cross Roads" by Fern Michaels (Zebra)
14. "True Blue" by David Baldacci (Vision)
15. "Dark Slayer" by Christine Feehan (Jove)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
2. "The Girl Who Played with Fire" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
3. "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
4. "Little Bee" by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster)
5. "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)
6. "The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel" by Garth Stein (Harper)
7. "Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel" by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)
8. "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin's Griffin)
9. "Worst Case" by James Patterson (Grand Central Publishing)
10. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)
11. "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
12. "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage)
13. "The Corrections: A Novel:" by Jonathan Franzen (Picador)
14. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho (Harper)
15. " A Gate at the Stairs" by Lorrie Moore (Vintage)
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