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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: LITTLE BEE.
Author: Chris Cleave
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Description: The lives of a British woman and a Nigerian girl collide.
Currently ranked 1 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 2 weeks.
ISBN: 9781416589648 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE LAST SONG.
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Publisher: Grand Central
Description: A 17-year-old spends the summer with her father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love.
Currently ranked 2 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 5 weeks.
ISBN: 9780446547550 (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 3 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 8 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 8TH CONFESSION.
Author: James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Publisher: Grand Central
Description: Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate a pair of killings.
Currently ranked 4 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
ISBN: 9780446561334 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO.
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Vintage
Description: A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress.
Currently ranked 5 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 36 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: DEAR JOHN.
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Publisher: Grand Central
Description: An unlikely romance between a soldier and an idealistic young woman is tested after 9/11.
Currently ranked 6 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 25 weeks.
ISBN: 9780446528054 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: LOOK AGAIN.
Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Description: A reporter learns that her adopted son may have been abducted from his birth mother.
Currently ranked 7 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 3 weeks.
ISBN: 9780312380731 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: SHANGHAI GIRLS.
Author: Lisa See
Publisher: Random House
Description: Two Chinese sisters in the 1930s are sold as wives to men from California.
Currently ranked 8 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/books/12maslin.html
ISBN: 9780812980530 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: SHUTTER ISLAND.
Author: Dennis Lehane
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Description: 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.
Currently ranked 9 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 3 weeks.
ISBN: 9780061807404 (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 10 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 93 weeks.
ISBN: 9780964729230 (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 11 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 55 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 12 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 38 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 13 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 5 weeks.
ISBN: 9780307357786 (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 14 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 125 weeks.
ISBN: 9780060834838 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN.
Author: Kate Morton
Publisher: Washington Square
Description: From England to Australia and back again, two women try to solve a family mystery.
Currently ranked 15 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 2 weeks.
ISBN: 9781416550556 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE.
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Publisher: Harvest/Harcourt
Description: Life with a dashing librarian who travels back and forth through time.
Currently ranked 16 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 37 weeks.
ISBN: 9780156029438 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY.
Author: Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Publisher: Dial
Description: A journalist meets the island’s old Nazi-resisters.
Currently ranked 17 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 43 weeks.
ISBN: 9780385340991 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE LOVELY BONES.
Author: Alice Sebold
Publisher: Back Bay
Description: A girl looks down from heaven as she describes the aftermath of her kidnapping and murder.
Currently ranked 18 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 24 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/18/books/books-of-the-times-the-power-of-love-leaps-the-great-divide-of-death.html
ISBN: 9780316001823 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: OLIVE KITTERIDGE.
Author: Elizabeth Strout
Publisher: Random House
Description: A seventh-grade math teacher is the link in 13 stories set on the Maine coast; a 2009 Pulitzer winner.
Currently ranked 19 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 45 weeks.
ISBN: 9780812971835 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: PUSH.
Author: Sapphire
Publisher: Vintage
Description: An abused, illiterate 16-year-old in Harlem meets a teacher who helps change her life; the basis for the film "Precious."
Currently ranked 20 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 27 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/14/books/books-of-the-times-a-cruel-world-endless-until-a-teacher-steps-in.html
ISBN: 9780307474841 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
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