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From the New York Times Bestseller Lists

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  • #1

    LITTLE BEE

    Chris Cleave

    The lives of a British woman and a Nigerian girl collide.

    On the bestsellers list for 3 weeks.

  • #2

    A RELIABLE WIFE

    Robert Goolrick

    Complications ensue when a wealthy Wisconsin widower in 1907 advertises for a spouse.

    On the bestsellers list for 9 weeks.

  • #3

    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 6 weeks.

  • #4

    THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

    Stieg Larsson

    A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress.

    On the bestsellers list for 37 weeks.

  • #5

    THE 8TH CONFESSION

    James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

    Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate a pair of killings.

    On the bestsellers list for 2 weeks.

  • #6

    LOOK AGAIN

    Lisa Scottoline

    A reporter learns that her adopted son may have been abducted from his birth mother.

    On the bestsellers list for 4 weeks.

  • #7

    SHANGHAI GIRLS

    Lisa See

    Two Chinese sisters in the 1930s are sold as wives to men from California.

    On the bestsellers list for 5 weeks.

  • #8

    SARAH’S KEY

    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.

    On the bestsellers list for 56 weeks.

  • #9

    DEAR JOHN

    Nicholas Sparks

    An unlikely romance between a soldier and an idealistic young woman is tested after 9/11.

    On the bestsellers list for 26 weeks.

  • #10

    THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN

    Garth Stein

    An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver.

    On the bestsellers list for 39 weeks.

  • #11

    SHUTTER ISLAND

    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.

    On the bestsellers list for 4 weeks.

  • #12

    THE SHACK

    William P Young

    A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God.

    On the bestsellers list for 94 weeks.

  • #13

    OLIVE KITTERIDGE

    Elizabeth Strout

    A seventh-grade math teacher is the link in 13 stories set on the Maine coast; a 2009 Pulitzer winner.

    On the bestsellers list for 46 weeks.

  • #14

    CUTTING FOR STONE

    Abraham Verghese

    Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia.

    On the bestsellers list for 6 weeks.

  • #15

    THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN

    Kate Morton

    From England to Australia and back, two women try to solve a family mystery.

    On the bestsellers list for 3 weeks.

  • #16

    THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY

    Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

    A journalist meets the island’s old Nazi-resisters.

    On the bestsellers list for 44 weeks.

  • #17

    THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE

    Audrey Niffenegger

    Life with a dashing librarian who travels back and forth through time.

    On the bestsellers list for 38 weeks.

  • #18

    PUSH

    Sapphire

    An abused, illiterate 16-year-old in Harlem meets a teacher who helps change her life; the basis for the film "Precious."

    On the bestsellers list for 28 weeks.

  • #19

    THE ALCHEMIST

    Paulo Coelho

    A Spanish shepherd boy goes to Egypt in search of treasure.

    On the bestsellers list for 126 weeks.

  • #20

    LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN

    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.

    On the bestsellers list for 12 weeks.

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