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The New York Time's Best Seller List
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Published: November 8, 2009
Fiction
1. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown. Doubleday, $29.95.
*2. The Scarpetta Factor, by Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $27.95. Apparent threats on Kay Scarpetta's life make her hesitate when a TV producer wants her to star in a show.
3. Pursuit of Honor, by Vince Flynn. Atria, $27.99.
4. Nine Dragons, by Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $27.99.
5. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.
6. Heat Wave, by Richard Castle. Hyperion, $19.99.
7. Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel. Holt, $27.
*8. Southern Lights, by Danielle Steel. Delacorte, $28. When a New York prosecutor's daughter is threatened, she sends her back to the Charleston world she herself fled.
9. Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $26.
10. The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $24.99.
Nonfiction
1. Have A Little Faith, by Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $23.99.
*2. Superfreakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Morrow/HarperCollins, $29.99. A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel.
*3. What the Dog Saw, by Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $27.99. A decade of New Yorker essays.
4. Too Big to Fail, by Andrew Ross Sorkin. Viking, $32.95. The 2008 financial implosion on Wall Street and in Washington, by a New York Times reporter and columnist.
5. Arguing with Idiots, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others. Mercury Radio Arts/Threshold Editions, $29.99.
6. Highest Duty, by Chesley B. Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow. Morrow/HarperCollins, $25.99.
7. True Compass, by Edward M. Kennedy. Twelve, $35.
8. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $27.99.
9. The Greatest Show on Earth, by Richard Dawkins. Free Press, $30.
10. Where Men Win Glory, by Jon Krakauer. Doubleday, $27.95.
* — Indicates first appearance on the list.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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