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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: A RELIABLE WIFE.
Author: Robert Goolrick
Publisher: Algonquin
Description: Complications ensue when a wealthy Wisconsin widower in 1907 advertises for a spouse.
Currently ranked 1 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 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 LOVELY BONES.
Author: Alice Sebold
Publisher: Little, Brown
Description: A girl looks down from heaven as she describes the aftermath of her kidnapping and murder.
Currently ranked 2 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 20 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: 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 3 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 21 weeks.
ISBN: 9780446528054 (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 4 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 32 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 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 5 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
ISBN: 9780446547550 (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 6 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 51 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 7 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 34 weeks.
ISBN: 9780061537967 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: TRUE COLORS.
Author: Kristin Hannah
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Description: Two sisters grow up in a small Washington town, betray each other and eventually reconcile.
Currently ranked 8 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
ISBN: 9780312606121 (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 9 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 41 weeks.
ISBN: 9780812971835 (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 89 weeks.
ISBN: 9780964729230 (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 11 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
ISBN: 9780375714368 (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 12 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 23 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)
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 13 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 39 weeks.
ISBN: 9780385340991 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE PIANO TEACHER.
Author: Janice YK Lee
Publisher: Penguin
Description: An Englishwoman in 1950s Hong Kong discovers devastating secrets from the years of the Japanese occupation.
Currently ranked 14 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 11 weeks.
ISBN: 9780143116530 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG.
Author: Muriel Barbery
Publisher: Europa
Description: A young girl and a widowed concierge, both closet intellectuals, become friends.
Currently ranked 15 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 55 weeks.
ISBN: 9781933372600 (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 16 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 9 weeks.
ISBN: 9780812973990 (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 17 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 33 weeks.
ISBN: 9780156029438 (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 9 weeks.
ISBN: 9780345505347 (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 19 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 122 weeks.
ISBN: 9780060834838 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS?.
Author: Kate Atkinson
Publisher: Back Bay
Description: Thirty years after her family was murdered, a woman disappears.
Currently ranked 20 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 2 weeks.
ISBN: 9780316012836 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
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