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New York Times Bestsellers, November 12, 2009

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending November 7, 2009. Source: New York Times

Fiction | Nonfiction

Fiction

  1. Ford County: Stories by John Grisham
  2. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
  3. Kindred in Death by J. D. Robb
  4. The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
  5. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
  6. True Blue by David Baldacci
  7. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  8. Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn
  9. The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
  10. Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
  11. No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara
  12. Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
  13. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  14. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
  15. Heat Wave by Richard Castle

Nonfiction

  1. Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom
  2. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  3. What the Dog Saw and Other Adventure Stories by Malcolm Gladwell
  4. Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government by Glenn Beck
  5. The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons
  6. The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory by David Plouffe
  7. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
  8. The Sellout: How Wall Street Greed and Stupidity Destroyed America's Dominance of the Global Financial System by Charles Gasparino
  9. Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought To Save the Financial System from Crisis--and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
  10. When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson with Jackie MacMullan.
  11. The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi
  12. True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy
  13. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz
  14. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
  15. Bon Jovi by Bon Jovi