The New York Times Best Sellers - Trade Paperback Fiction

New York Times® Best Sellers: Trade Fiction Paperback March 21, 2010
	1. LITTLE BEE by Chris Cleave The lives of a British woman and a Nigerian girl collide.
	2. A RELIABLE WIFE by Robert Goolrick Complications ensue when a wealthy Wisconsin widower in 1907 advertises for a spouse.
	3. 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.
	4. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress.
	5. THE 8TH CONFESSION by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate a pair of killings.
	6. LOOK AGAIN by Lisa Scottoline A reporter learns that her adopted son may have been abducted from his birth mother.
	7. SHANGHAI GIRLS by Lisa See Two Chinese sisters in the 1930s are sold as wives to men from California.
	8. SARAH’S KEY by Tatiana de Rosnay A contemporary American journalist investigates what happened to a little girl and her family during the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942.
	9. DEAR JOHN by Nicholas Sparks An unlikely romance between a soldier and an idealistic young woman is tested after 9/11.
	10. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN by Garth Stein An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver.
	11. SHUTTER ISLAND by Dennis Lehane A United States marshal hunts for a beautiful patient escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane on an island in Boston’s outer harbor.
	12. THE SHACK by William P. Young A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God. (†)
	13. OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout A seventh-grade math teacher is the link in 13 stories set on the Maine coast; a 2009 Pulitzer winner.
	14. CUTTING FOR STONE by Abraham Verghese Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia.
	15. THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN by Kate Morton From England to Australia and back, two women try to solve a family mystery.
	*16. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY** by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows A journalist meets the island’s old Nazi-resisters.
	17. THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffenegger Life with a dashing librarian who travels back and forth through time.
	18. PUSH by Sapphire An abused, illiterate 16-year-old in Harlem meets a teacher who helps change her life; the basis for the film "Precious."
	*19. THE ALCHEMIST** by Paulo Coelho A Spanish shepherd boy goes to Egypt in search of treasure.
	20. LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the twin towers is pivotal to the lives in this novel, a winner of the 2009 National Book Award.

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Mar. 7, 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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