New York Times® Best Sellers: Trade Fiction Paperback
February 19, 2012

1. NIGHT ROAD
by Kristin Hannah
Three teenagers in a small, close-knit community make a calamitous decision that changes the course of their lives.

2. THE HELP
by Kathryn Stockett
Three women — a white socialite and two black maids — work on a tell-all book about black domestic servants in 1960s Mississippi.

3. EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE
by Jonathan Safran Foer
A precocious boy goes on a scavenger hunt through New York’s five boroughs in search of the lock that fits a key belonging to his father, who died on Sept. 11.

4. THE TIGER'S WIFE
by Téa Obreht
Fable and allegory illustrate the complexities of Balkan history, as a young doctor unravels the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s death.

5.* THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
by Stieg Larsson
A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress; the first volume in the Millennium trilogy.

6. LETHAL
by Sandra Brown
A woman, her daughter and a man accused of murder evade the authorities as they search for her dead husband’s secrets.

7. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
by Stieg Larsson
In the second volume of the Millennium trilogy, the Swedish hacker Lisbeth Salander becomes a murder suspect.

8. 10TH ANNIVERSARY
by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Detective Lindsay Boxer’s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when the Women’s Murder Club is called in to find a missing baby.

9. TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
by John le Carre
George Smiley sets a trap to catch a Soviet mole who may have penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence.

10. THE HARBINGER
by Jonathan Cahn
A man tells of his encounters with a mysterious figure who has given him a series of messages that hold the secret of America’s future.

11. THE NEXT ALWAYS
by Nora Roberts
A historic hotel in Boonsboro, Md., is getting a face-lift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother.

12. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN
by Garth Stein
An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver.

13.* A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES
by Deborah Harkness
The recovery of a lost ancient manuscript in a library at Oxford sets a fantastical underworld stirring.

14. THE ALCHEMIST
by Paulo Coelho
In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.

15. 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.

16. CUTTING FOR STONE
by Abraham Verghese
Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia.

17. FULL BLACK
by Brad Thor
When a covert mission goes horribly wrong, only the counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath can carry out a plan to stop one of the biggest terrorist threats the United States has ever faced.

18. ONE SUMMER
by David Baldacci
After the death of his devoted wife, a father struggles to keep his family together, and in the process learns to love again.

19. THE WOMAN IN BLACK
by Susan Hill
A British lawyer’s routine business trip to settle the affairs of a client in an isolated hamlet takes a horrifying turn; first published in 1983.

20.* A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD
by Jennifer Egan
Time is the relentless “goon squad” in this rock ’n’ roll novel, which explores the tattered lives of a cynical record producer and the people who intersect his world; a 2011 Pulitzer winner.