The New York Times Best Sellers List

By: JournalNow Staff | THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: September 20, 2009

Fiction

*1. Dark Slayer, by Christine Feehan. Berkley, $25.95. A slayer who travels with a wolf pack frees a Dragonseeker from prison and falls in love with him; a Carpathian novel.

2. Alex Cross's ‘Trial', by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo. Little, Brown, $27.99.

3. South of Broad, by Pat Conroy. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $29.95.

*4. Spartan Gold, by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood. Puuutnam, $26.96. Husband-and-wife treasure hunters search for bottles of wine from Napoleon's "lost cellar."

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

6. The White Queen, by Philippa Gregory. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, $25.99.

*7. Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow. Random House, $26. The lives of the reclusive Collyer brothers; by the author of Ragtime.

8. 206 Bones, by Kathy Reichs. Scribner, $26.99.

9. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson. Knopf, $25.95.

10. A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore. Knopf, $25.95. A Midwestern college student takes a job as a nanny with a couple on the eve of adoption.

Nonfiction

1. Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin. Regnery, $27.95.

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

3. In the President's Secret Service, by Ronald Kessler. Crown, $26.

4. Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder. Random House, $26.

5. Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall. Knopf, $24.95.

6. A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, by Bill O'Reilly. Broadway, $26.

7. Liberty and Tyranny, by Mark R. Levin. Threshold Editions, $25.

8. Catastrophe, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99.

9. The Healing of America, by T.R. Reid. Penguin Press, $25.95.

*10. Nurtureshock, by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. Twelve, $24.99. A report on recent research that challenges the conventional wisdom about child-rearing.

* -- Indicates first appearance on the list.