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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Best Sellers
Week of July 23, 2010
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| This Week |
FICTION | Weeks On List |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. The third volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist. | 8 |
| 2 | FLY AWAY HOME, by Jennifer Weiner. A senator’s extramarital affair affects his wife and daughters. | 1 |
| 3 | THE SEARCH, by Nora Roberts. The only survivor of a serial killer has found peace in the Pacific Northwest, but her life is shaken by the appearance of a new man and a copycat murderer. | 2 |
| 4 | THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi. | 68 |
| 5 | PRIVATE, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. The head of an investigation company pursues the murderer of his best friend’s wife. | 3 |
| 6 | THE GLASS RAINBOW, by James Lee Burke. A man with ties to an evil ex-convict and best-selling author is dating the Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux’s daughter. | 1 |
| 7 | SIZZLING SIXTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum comes to the aid of a cousin with gambling debts. | 4 |
| 8 | FAITHFUL PLACE, by Tana French. Twenty-two years after a Dublin woman stood up her intended groom, her abandoned suitcase is discovered. | 1 |
| 9 | THE OVERTON WINDOW, by Glenn Beck. A public relations executive and the woman he loves fight to expose a conspiracy to transform America. | 5 |
| 10 | LIVE TO TELL, by Lisa Gardner. The investigation of a Boston family murder leads Detective D.D. Warren to a pediatric psychiatric ward. | 1 |
| 11 | THE PASSAGE, by Justin Cronin. More than a hundred years in the future, a small group resists the vampires who have taken over North America. | 6 |
| 12 | THE LION, by Nelson DeMille. John Corey, now a federal agent, pursues a Libyan terrorist who has returned to America bent on revenge. | 6 |
| 13 | FOREIGN INFLUENCE, by Brad Thor. The covert operative Scott Harvath joins a new spy agency and investigates a bombing in Rome that killed American students. | 3 |
| 14 | ICE COLD, by Tess Gerritsen. A group of friends are murdered when they take refuge in a remote abandoned village in Wyoming. | 3 |
| 15 | THE ISLAND, by Elin Hilderbrand. A woman, her daughters and her sister take refuge from life’s complications on a tiny island near Nantucket, but their time there is far from quiet. | 2 |
| This Week |
NON-FICTION | Weeks On List |
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| 1 | THE OBAMA DIARIES, by Laura Ingraham. A satirical fictional journal with commentary, by the conservative political commentator. | 1 |
| 2 | ---- MY DAD SAYS, by Justin Halpern. A coming-of-age memoir organized around the musings, purveyed on Twitter, of the author’s father. | 11 |
| 3 | MEDIUM RAW, by Anthony Bourdain. The author of “Kitchen Confidential” looks critically both at the changes in the food and restaurant culture in the past 10 years and at the people responsible for them. | 6 |
| 4 | THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight. | 18 |
| 5 | WAR, by Sebastian Junger. The intense lives of American soldiers in a lethal corner of Afghanistan. | 10 |
| 6 | CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG, by Chelsea Handler. More humorous personal essays from the comedian. | 19 |
| 7 | COMING BACK STRONGER, by Drew Brees with Chris Fabry. The N.F.L. quarterback recovered from an injury to play for the New Orleans Saints. | 2 |
| 8 | EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON, by S. C. Gwynne. The story of Quanah Parker, the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. | 4 |
| 9 | SLIDING INTO HOME, by Kendra Wilkinson. The life of the reality TV star and former Playboy cover model. | 2 |
| 10 | IN A HEARTBEAT, by Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy with Sally Jenkins. The couple featured in “The Blind Side” tell their story and promote the practice of “cheerful giving.” | 1 |
| 11 | OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.” | 86 |
| 12 | HOME TEAM, by Sean Payton and Ellis Henican. The head coach of the New Orleans Saints describes the team’s Super Bowl victory, which raised the city’s spirits four years after Hurricane Katrina. | 3 |
| 13 | STEINBRENNER, by Bill Madden. A biography of the New York Yankees owner, who died last month. | 5 |
| 14 | SPOKEN FROM THE HEART, by Laura Bush. A memoir from the former first lady. | 11 |
| 15 | FIFTH AVENUE, 5 A.M., by Sam Wasson. The making of the movie “Breakfast at Tiffany’s" and its cultural influence. | 2 |