The New York Times Best Sellers - Hardcover Fiction

New York Times® Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction February 14, 2010
	1. THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
	2. THE LOST SYMBOL by Dan Brown Robert Langdon among the Masons.
	3. KISSER by Stuart Woods Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, pursues a case of financial fraud on the Upper East Side.
	4. BLOOD TIES by Kay Hooper The F.B.I. agent Noah Bishop and his special crimes unit pursue a brutal enemy.
	*5. THE FIRST RULE** by Robert Crais Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, set out to clear the reputation of a former military contractor who has been murdered.
	6. THE SWAN THIEVES by Elizabeth Kostova A psychiatrist who treats a man who slashed a canvas in the National Gallery is drawn into the world of French Impressionism; from the author of “The Historian.”
	7. I, ALEX CROSS by James Patterson Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets.
	8. THE LAST SONG by Nicholas Sparks A 17-year-old spends the summer with her father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love.
	9. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.
	*10. ROSES** by Leila Meacham Three generations in a small East Texas town.
	11. THE WOLF AT THE DOOR by Jack Higgins Someone is targeting the members of an elite British intelligence team, and Sean Dillon believes it is an old nemesis.
	12. THE BURNING LAND by Bernard Cornwell The ninth-century Saxon warrior Uhtred breaks with King Alfred but returns to fight the Danes.
	13. IMPACT by Douglas Preston Scientists race to defuse a doomsday weapon pointed at Earth from one of the moons of Mars.
	14. I, SNIPER by Stephen Hunter Bob Lee Swagger discovers that the murder of four ’60s radicals is more complicated than it seems.
	15. NOAH’S COMPASS by Anne Tyler A retired teacher with a head injury struggles to regain his memory and his engagement in life.
	16. GATOR A-GO-GO by Tim Dorsey Serge A. Storms, the vigilante serial killer, and his stoned sidekick do spring break in Florida.
	17. DEEPER THAN THE DEAD by Tami Hoag An F.B.I. investigator and a teacher track a series of murders in California in 1985.
	18. HALF BROKE HORSES by Jeannette Walls A re-creation of the life of the author’s grandmother in the Southwest, by the author of “The Glass Castle.”
	19. DEAD AND GONE by Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.
	20. UNDER THE DOME by Stephen King When a Maine town is trapped by an invisible force field, a sanctimonious and hypocritical politician takes over.

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Jan. 31, 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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	The Privileges Jonathan Dee Random House
	The Unnamed Joshua Ferris Reagan Arthur Books
	Committed Elizabeth Gilbert Viking Adult
	The Crossing Places Elly Griffiths Houghton Mifflin Harcourt