Fiction and Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers

Fiction

	1 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons.
	2 I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson. Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets.
	3 UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King. When a Maine town is trapped by an invisible force field, a sanctimonious and hypocritical politician takes over.
	4 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi
	5 PIRATE LATITUDES, by Michael Crichton. In the 17th-century Caribbean, a British pirate attacks a Spanish galleon; this manuscript was found in Crichton’s files after his death in 2008.
	6 FORD COUNTY, by John Grisham. Stories set in rural Mississippi.
	7 U IS FOR UNDERTOW, by Sue Grafton. Kinsey Millhone investigates the case of a 4-year-old girl who disappeared 21 years earlier.
	8 THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks. A 17-year-old girl spends the summer with her divorced father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love.
	9 THE CHRISTMAS SWEATER, by Glenn Beck with Kevin Balfe and Jason Wright. A boy learns from his disappointment with his mother’s gift.
	10 BREATHLESS, by Dean Koontz. Mysterious animals in the Colorado Rockies set off intrigue and suspense.

	1 GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin. A memoir by the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate.
	2 HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.
	3 ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others. Making the case against big government.
	4 TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy. The late senator’s autobiography.
	5 OPEN, by Andre Agassi. The tennis champion’s autobiography.
	6 SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel.
	7 WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell. A decade of New Yorker essays.
	8 STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson. Building schools, many of them for girls, in northeast Afghanistan; takes up where “Three Cups of Tea” left off.
	9 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunity — from the author of “Blink."
	10 THE IMPERIAL CRUISE, by James Bradley. In 1905, during a diplomatic journey organized by Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft negotiated secret agreements with several Asian countries.