The New York Times Best Sellers - Hardcover Fiction

New York Times® Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction February 19, 2012
	1. HOME FRONT by Kristin Hannah A woman’s husband and children are challenged when she is deployed to Iraq.
	2. PRIVATE: #1 SUSPECT by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro Jack Morgan, a former Marine and the head of an investigative firm, is accused of murder.
	3. TAKEN by Robert Crais It’s Joe Pike to the rescue when Elvis Cole is seized by human traffickers.
	*4. DEFENDING JACOB** by William Landay An assistant district attorney’s ife is shaken when his 14-year-old son is accused of murder.
	5. DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY by P. D. James Elizabeth Bennet and her husband, Darcy, of "Pride and Prejudice," must deal with a murder.
	6. 11/22/63 by Stephen King An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald.
	7. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST by Stieg Larsson The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.
	8. BELIEVING THE LIE by Elizabeth George Inspector Thomas Lynley’s investigation of a murder unearths the secrets of a wealthy clan.
	9. RAYLAN by Elmore Leonard A United States marshal sent to Harlan County, Ky., confronts organ trafficking, strip mining and bank robberies.
	10. THE LITIGATORS by John Grisham Partners in a small law firm take on a big case.
	11. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R. R. Martin After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."
	12. THE FEAR INDEX by Robert Harris A billionaire hedge fund manager in Geneva who uses an algorithm to predict the movements of financial markets discovers that his computer program is misbehaving.
	13. THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, narrates this novel set in Paris.
	*14. THE BEST OF ME** by Nicholas Sparks Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman return to their North Carolina town.
	15. THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON by Adam Johnson A young North Korean is both victim and perpetrator of countless crimes.
	*16. DEATH OF KINGS** by Bernard Cornwell As King Alfred lies near death, the Saxon warrior Uhtred must decide whether to support a united England or reclaim his ancestral lands in the north.
	17. LOCKED ON by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney Jack Ryan Jr. must stop an emerging threat from a Pakistani general.
	18. DARTH PLAGUEIS by James Luceno The Sith legend of Darth Plagueis, the most powerful Dark Lord of the Sith, who could keep the ones he cared about from dying; a “Star Wars” novel.
	19. THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by Julian Barnes In this Man Booker Prize-winning novel, an unexpected bequest causes a man in his 60s to question his understanding of the past.
	20. EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN by Janet Evanovich After a disastrous vacation in Hawaii, Stephanie Plum becomes the target of an international killer.

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Feb. 4, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount, department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books.

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	1Q84 Haruki Murakami Knopf
	The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
	The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes Knopf
	Death Comes to Pemberley PD James Knopf