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New York Times Best Sellers -- Trade Fiction Paperback
Note: The searches of the Dallas Public Library catalog on these pages use the ISBN number to search for the exact item listed. If the item is not found in the catalog, please search the catalog using the title to see if we have other versions than the one specified in this list.
Title: THE HELP.
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Berkley
Description: Three women — a white socialite and two black maids — work on a tell-all book about black domestic servants in 1960s Mississippi.
Currently ranked 1 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 43 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/books/19masl.html
ISBN: 9780399155345 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE.
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin
Description: 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.
Currently ranked 2 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 6 weeks.
ISBN: 9780618711659 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO.
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Description: A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress; the first volume in the Millennium trilogy.
Currently ranked 3 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 136 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/books/30kaku.html
ISBN: 9780307454546 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE TIGER'S WIFE.
Author: Téa Obreht
Publisher: Random House
Description: Fable and allegory illustrate the complexities of Balkan history, as a young doctor unravels the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s death.
Currently ranked 4 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 13 weeks.
ISBN: 9780679604365 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE.
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Description: In the second volume of the Millennium trilogy, the Swedish hacker Lisbeth Salander becomes a murder suspect.
Currently ranked 5 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 86 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/books/17book.html
ISBN: 9780307454553 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: 10TH ANNIVERSARY.
Author: James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Publisher: Grand Central
Description: 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.
Currently ranked 6 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 3 weeks.
ISBN: 9780316036269 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE HARBINGER.
Author: Jonathan Cahn
Publisher: FrontLine
Description: 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.
Currently ranked 7 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
ISBN: 9781616386108 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: LETHAL.
Author: Sandra Brown
Publisher: Grand Central
Description: A woman, her daughter and a man accused of murder evade the authorities as they search for her dead husband’s secrets.
Currently ranked 8 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
ISBN: 9781455501472 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY.
Author: John le Carre
Publisher: Penguin
Description: George Smiley sets a trap to catch a Soviet mole who may have penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence.
Currently ranked 9 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 5 weeks.
ISBN: 9780143120933 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: NIGHT ROAD.
Author: Kristin Hannah
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Description: Three teenagers in a small, close-knit community make a calamitous decision that changes the course of their lives.
Currently ranked 10 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
ISBN: 9780312364427 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES.
Author: Deborah Harkness
Publisher: Penguin
Description: The recovery of a lost ancient manuscript in a library at Oxford sets a fantastical underworld stirring.
Currently ranked 11 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 5 weeks.
ISBN: 9780670022410 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: SARAH'S KEY.
Author: Tatiana de Rosnay
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Description: A contemporary American journalist investigates what happened to a little girl and her family during the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942.
Currently ranked 12 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 152 weeks.
ISBN: 9780312370848 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN.
Author: Garth Stein
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Description: An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver.
Currently ranked 13 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 138 weeks.
ISBN: 9780061537967 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: CUTTING FOR STONE.
Author: Abraham Verghese
Publisher: Vintage
Description: Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia.
Currently ranked 14 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 105 weeks.
ISBN: 9780375714368 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: ONE SUMMER.
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Grand Central
Description: After the death of his devoted wife, a father struggles to keep his family together, and in the process learns to love again.
Currently ranked 15 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 5 weeks.
ISBN: 9780446583145 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE NEXT ALWAYS.
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Berkley
Description: A historic hotel in Boonsboro, Md., is getting a face-lift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother.
Currently ranked 16 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 13 weeks.
ISBN: 9780425243213 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE ALCHEMIST.
Author: Paulo Coelho
Publisher: HarperOne
Description: In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
Currently ranked 17 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 213 weeks.
ISBN: 9780061122415 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD.
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Anchor
Description: 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.
Currently ranked 18 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 45 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/books/21book.html
ISBN: 9780307592835 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN.
Author: Lionel Shriver
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Description: Two years after her son’s murderous high school rampage, a woman tries to come to terms with marriage, career and family in a series of correspondences with her estranged husband.
Currently ranked 19 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 2 weeks.
ISBN: 9780062119049 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: ROOM.
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Back Bay/Little, Brown
Description: The entire world of the 5-year-old boy who narrates this novel is the 11-by-11-foot room in which his mother is being held prisoner.
Currently ranked 20 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 37 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/books/13book.html
ISBN: 9780316098335 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
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