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Best
Sellers
Last
Updated March 15, 2010
Fiction or Non-Fiction
FICTION
BEST
SELLERS
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HOUSE
RULES, by Jodi Picoult.
A teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome is accused
of murder.
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THE
HELP, by Kathryn Stockett.
A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s
Mississippi.
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FANTASY
IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb.
Lt.
Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a fantasy-game
entrepreneur; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
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| 4. |
ABRAHAM
LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, by Seth Grahame-Smith.
Lincoln
fights the undead; by the author of “Pride and
Prejudice and Zombies."
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| 5. |
WORST
CASE, by James Patterson and Michael
Ledwidge.
A
New York detective raising 10 children alone investigates
a string of kidnappings and killings of teenagers
by a villain with unusual motives.
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BIG
GIRL, by Danielle Steel.
A
woman with weight issues learns to accept herself.
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| 7. |
BLACK
MAGIC SANCTION, by Kim Harrison.
A
witch who is also a bounty hunter is shunned by
her kind; the eighth Rachel Morgan book.
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| 8. |
SPLIT
IMAGE, by Robert B. Parker.
Jesse
Stone, the police chief of Paradise, Mass., copes
with divorce, the bottle and the murder of a mob
soldier.
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| 9. |
THE
LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown.
Robert
Langdon among the Masons.
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THE
POSTMISTRESS, by Sarah Blake.
Ordinary
life in a Massachusetts small town and an American
radio reporter in England in the 1940s.
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| 11. |
WINTER
GARDEN, by Kristin Hannah.
After their father's death, two sisters must cooperate
to run his apple orchard and care for their difficult
mother.
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| 12. |
THE
MAN FROM BEIJING, by Henning Mankell.
A
massacre in a tiny Swedish village has roots in
the past and on other continents.
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| 13. |
THE
GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE,
by Stieg Larsson.
A
Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.
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| 14. |
THE
THREE WEISSMANNS OF WESTPORT, by Cathleen
Schine.
Two
sisters — one logical, one emotional — move in
with their mother when her ex-husband kicks her
out of the family apartment; a tribute to Austen's
“Sense and Sensibility.”
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POOR
LITTLE BITCH GIRL, by Jackie Collins.
Hollywood
murder, three beautiful 20-something high school
friends, a hot New York club owner.
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NONFICTION
BEST SELLERS
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NO
APOLOGY, by Mitt Romney.
The former Massachusetts governor and Republican
presidential candidate calls for economic and
civic revitalization.
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LIFT,
by Kelly Corrigan.
Stories
about parenting, written as a letter to the author's
daughters.
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GAME
CHANGE, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.
Behind the scenes at the 2008 election with Barack
Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John and Elizabeth
Edwards, John McCain and Sarah Palin. |
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4. |
NOT
WITHOUT HOPE, by Nick Schuyler and Jeré
Longman.
A
man survives a deep-sea fishing trip gone terribly
wrong.
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THE
IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by
Rebecca Skloot.
Race,
poverty and science intertwine in the story of
the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without
her permission in 1951 and have supported a mountain
of research undertaken since then. |
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NO
ONE WOULD LISTEN, by Harry Markopolos
with others.
The
man who blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff and
was ignored.
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THE
PACIFIC, by Hugh Ambrose.
Stories
of Marines and a Navy pilot during World War II;
companion volume for an HBO mini-series.
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8. |
WILLIE
MAYS, by James S. Hirsch.
The
life and career of a baseball legend. |
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9. |
THE
POLITICIAN, by Andrew Young.
A
tell-all by John Edwards's closest aide. |
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10. |
OUTLIERS,
by Malcolm Gladwell.
Why
some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”
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SON
OF HAMAS, by Mosab Hassan Yousef with
Ron Brackin.
The
son of a Hamas founder converts to Christianity
and emigrates to the United States.
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12. |
I
AM OZZY,
by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres.
Recollections
of heavy metal's “Prince of Darkness.”
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THE
CHECKLIST MANIFESTO, by Atul Gawande.
Following
checklists makes surgery safer and other activities
more efficient, a doctor argues. |
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14. |
MAKING
ROUNDS WITH OSCAR, by David Dosa.
A
nursing-home cat who comforts patients when death
is near. |
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15. |
STONES
INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson.
Building
schools, many of them for girls, in northeast
Afghanistan; takes
up
where “Three Cups of Tea” left off.
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