The New York Times' Best Sellers List

By: JournalNow Staff | THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: November 22, 2009

Fiction

*1. Ford Country, by John Grisham. Doubleday, $24. Stories set in rural Mississippi.

2. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown. Doubleday, $29.95.

*3. Kindred in Death, by J.D. Robb. Putnam, $26.95. Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the brutal murder of a colleague's daughter; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.

4. The Gathering Storm, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Tor/Tom Doherty, $29.99.

*5. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver. Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99. A young American growing up in Mexico becomes friends with Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo and Leon Trotsky; later, in the United States, he is menaced by McCarthyism.

6. True Blue, by David Baldacci. Grand Central, $27.99.

7. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.

8. Pursuit of Honor, by Vince Flynn. Atria, $27.99.

9. The Scarpetta Factor, by Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $27.95.

10. Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving. Random House, $28.

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.

3. What the Dog Saw, by Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $27.99.

4. Arguing with Idiots, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others. Mercury Radio Arts/Threshold Editions, $29.99.

5. The Book of Basketball, by Bill Simmons. Ballantine/ESPN, $30.

*6. The Audacity to Win, by David Plouffe. Viking, $27.95. Obama's presidential campaign, by the man who managed it.

7. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $27.99.

*8. The Sellout, by Charles Gasparino. Harper Business/HarperCollins, $27.99. How Wall Street's love affair with risk (and enormous profits) and government mismanagement caused the global economy to implode.

9. Too Big to Fail, by Andrew Ross Sorkin. Viking, $32.95.

*10. When the Game Was Ours, by Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson with Jackie MacMullan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26. Two great basketball players discuss their careers, their long rivalry and their eventual friendship.

* -- Indicates first appearance on the list.