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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 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.
Currently ranked 1 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 61 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/books/30kaku.html
ISBN: 9780307269751 (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: A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.
Currently ranked 2 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 22 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: LITTLE BEE.
Author: Chris Cleave
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Description: The lives of a British woman and a Nigerian girl collide.
Currently ranked 3 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 27 weeks.
ISBN: 9781416589648 (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 4 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 30 weeks.
ISBN: 9780307357786 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: FORD COUNTY.
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Bantam
Description: Stories set in the same rural Mississippi locale as "A Time to Kill."
Currently ranked 5 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/books/02book.html
ISBN: 9780553386813 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE LACUNA.
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Description: A young American growing up in Mexico becomes friends with artists and radicals; later, in the United States, he is menaced by McCarthyism.
Currently ranked 6 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 5 weeks.
ISBN: 9780060852580 (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 7 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 63 weeks.
ISBN: 9780061537967 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: UNDER THE DOME.
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Gallery
Description: Trapped by an invisible force field, a Maine town falls prey to a devious politician.
Currently ranked 8 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 7 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/books/12book.html
ISBN: 9781439149034 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE ALCHEMIST.
Author: Paulo Coelho
Publisher: HarperOne
Description: A Spanish shepherd boy goes to Egypt in search of treasure.
Currently ranked 9 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 142 weeks.
ISBN: 9780060834838 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: BEST FRIENDS FOREVER.
Author: Jennifer Weiner
Publisher: Washington Square
Description: Childhood friends, estranged in high school, reunite years later when one needs help.
Currently ranked 10 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 16 weeks.
ISBN: 9780743294300 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: ONE DAY.
Author: David Nicholls
Publisher: Vintage
Description: Checking in year by year on the confused, halting romance of two children of the ’80s.
Currently ranked 11 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 9 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/books/15book.html
ISBN: 9780307474711 (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 80 weeks.
ISBN: 9780312370848 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS.
Author: Sara Gruen
Publisher: Algonquin
Description: A young man — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus.
Currently ranked 13 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 91 weeks.
ISBN: 9781565124998 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: A RELIABLE WIFE.
Author: Robert Goolrick
Publisher: Algonquin
Description: Complications ensue when a wealthy Wisconsin widower in 1907 advertises for a spouse.
Currently ranked 14 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 32 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/books/19newly.html
ISBN: 9781565125964 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE SHACK.
Author: William P Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Description: A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God.
Currently ranked 15 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 113 weeks.
ISBN: 9780964729230 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: SOUTH OF BROAD.
Author: Pat Conroy
Publisher: Dial
Description: An unlikely group’s friendship from the ’60s to the ’80s, by the author of "The Prince of Tides."
Currently ranked 16 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 13 weeks.
ISBN: 9780385344074 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN.
Author: Colum McCann
Publisher: Random House
Description: 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.
Currently ranked 17 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 24 weeks.
ISBN: 9780812973990 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET.
Author: Jamie Ford
Publisher: Ballantine
Description: A friendship between a Chinese-American boy and a Japanese-American girl in Seattle during World War II.
Currently ranked 18 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 16 weeks.
ISBN: 9780345505347 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY.
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Publisher: Scribner
Description: A woman haunts the flat she’s left to her twin nieces near Highgate Cemetery in London.
Currently ranked 19 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 7 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/books/22kaku.html
ISBN: 9780743599313 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: TINKERS.
Author: Paul Harding
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Description: A dying clock repairman recalls his impoverished New England childhood; a 2010 Pulitzer winner.
Currently ranked 20 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 17 weeks.
ISBN: 9781934137123 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
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