Reading Radar

From the New York Times Bestseller Lists

Hardcover Fiction

  • #1

    THE HELP

    Kathryn Stockett

    A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi.

    On the bestsellers list for 44 weeks.

  • #2

    THE LOST SYMBOL

    Dan Brown

    Robert Langdon among the Masons.

    On the bestsellers list for 20 weeks.

  • #3

    KISSER

    Stuart Woods

    Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, pursues a case of financial fraud on the Upper East Side.

    On the bestsellers list for 2 weeks.

  • #4

    BLOOD TIES

    Kay Hooper

    The F.B.I. agent Noah Bishop and his special crimes unit pursue a brutal enemy.

    On the bestsellers list for 1 week.

  • #5

    THE FIRST RULE

    Robert Crais

    Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, set out to clear the reputation of a former military contractor who has been murdered.

    On the bestsellers list for 3 weeks.

  • #6

    THE SWAN THIEVES

    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.”

    On the bestsellers list for 3 weeks.

  • #7

    I, ALEX CROSS

    James Patterson

    Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets.

    On the bestsellers list for 11 weeks.

  • #8

    THE LAST SONG

    Nicholas Sparks

    A 17-year-old spends the summer with her father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love.

    On the bestsellers list for 21 weeks.

  • #9

    THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE

    Stieg Larsson

    A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.

    On the bestsellers list for 16 weeks.

  • #10

    ROSES

    Leila Meacham

    Three generations in a small East Texas town.

    On the bestsellers list for 3 weeks.

  • #11

    THE WOLF AT THE DOOR

    Jack Higgins

    Someone is targeting the members of an elite British intelligence team, and Sean Dillon believes it is an old nemesis.

    On the bestsellers list for 2 weeks.

  • #12

    THE BURNING LAND

    Bernard Cornwell

    The ninth-century Saxon warrior Uhtred breaks with King Alfred but returns to fight the Danes.

    On the bestsellers list for 2 weeks.

  • #13

    IMPACT

    Douglas Preston

    Scientists race to defuse a doomsday weapon pointed at Earth from one of the moons of Mars.

    On the bestsellers list for 4 weeks.

  • #14

    I, SNIPER

    Stephen Hunter

    Bob Lee Swagger discovers that the murder of four ’60s radicals is more complicated than it seems.

    On the bestsellers list for 5 weeks.

  • #15

    NOAH’S COMPASS

    Anne Tyler

    A retired teacher with a head injury struggles to regain his memory and his engagement in life.

    On the bestsellers list for 4 weeks.

  • #16

    GATOR A-GO-GO

    Tim Dorsey

    Serge A. Storms, the vigilante serial killer, and his stoned sidekick do spring break in Florida.

    On the bestsellers list for 0 week.

  • #17

    DEEPER THAN THE DEAD

    Tami Hoag

    An F.B.I. investigator and a teacher track a series of murders in California in 1985.

    On the bestsellers list for 0 week.

  • #18

    HALF BROKE HORSES

    Jeannette Walls

    A re-creation of the life of the author’s grandmother in the Southwest, by the author of “The Glass Castle.”

    On the bestsellers list for 0 week.

  • #19

    DEAD AND GONE

    Charlaine Harris

    Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.

    On the bestsellers list for 0 week.

  • #20

    UNDER THE DOME

    Stephen King

    When a Maine town is trapped by an invisible force field, a sanctimonious and hypocritical politician takes over.

    On the bestsellers list for 0 week.

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