The New York Times Best Sellers - Trade Paperback Fiction

New York Times® Best Sellers: Trade Fiction Paperback February 14, 2010
	1. A RELIABLE WIFE by Robert Goolrick Complications ensue when a wealthy Wisconsin widower in 1907 advertises for a spouse.
	2. THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold A girl looks down from heaven as she describes the aftermath of her kidnapping and murder.
	3. DEAR JOHN by Nicholas Sparks An unlikely romance between a soldier and an idealistic young woman is tested after 9/11.
	4. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress.
	5. 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.
	6. 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.
	7. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN by Garth Stein An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver.
	8. TRUE COLORS by Kristin Hannah Two sisters grow up in a small Washington town, betray each other and eventually reconcile.
	*9. 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.
	10. THE SHACK by William P. Young A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God. (†)
	11. CUTTING FOR STONE by Abraham Verghese Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia.
	*12. 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."
	13. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows A journalist meets the island’s old Nazi-resisters.
	14. THE PIANO TEACHER by Janice Y.K. Lee An Englishwoman in 1950s Hong Kong discovers devastating secrets from the years of the Japanese occupation.
	15. THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG by Muriel Barbery A young girl and a widowed concierge, both closet intellectuals, become friends.
	16. 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.
	17. THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffenegger Life with a dashing librarian who travels back and forth through time.
	*18. HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET** by Jamie Ford A friendship between a Chinese-American boy and a Japanese-American girl in Seattle during World War II.
	19. THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho A Spanish shepherd boy goes to Egypt in search of treasure.
	20. WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS? by Kate Atkinson Thirty years after her family was murdered, a woman disappears.

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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