The New York Times Best Sellers List

By: JournalNow Staff | THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: September 27, 2009

Fiction

*1. The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $24.99. A 17-year-old girl spends the summer with her divorced father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love.

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

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

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

5. Spartan Gold, by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood. Putnam, $26.96.

6. Dark Slayer, by Christine Feehan. Berkley, $25.95.

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

*8. Dexter by Design, by Jeff Lindsay. Doubleday, $25. A serial killer who arranges victims in artful poses challenges the Miami Police Department and its blood-splatter analyst, Dexter.

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

10. Dead and Gone, by Charlaine Harris. Ace, $25.95.

Nonfiction

*1. Official Book Club Selection, by Kathy Griffin. Ballantine, $25. A humorous memoir from the star of My Life on the D-List.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*9. Half the Sky, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Knopf, $27.95. Women fighting sexual oppression in Asia and Africa.

*10. Traveling With Pomegranates, by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor. Viking, $25.95. The novelist (The Secret Life of Bees) and her daughter travel together in Europe at a difficult time in both their lives.

* -- Indicates first appearance on the list.