The New York Times' Best Sellers List

By: JournalNow Staff | THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: February 07, 2010

Fiction

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

*2. Kisser, by Stuart Woods. Putnam, $25.95. Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, pursues a case of financial fraud on the Upper East Side.

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

*4. The Burning Land, by Bernard Cornwell. Harper/HarperCollins, $25.99. In the fifth of the Saxon Tales, the 9th-century Saxon warrior Uhtred breaks with King Alfred, but eventually returns to help fight the Danes.

5. The First Rule, by Robert Crais. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, $26.95.

6. The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $24.99.

7. The Swan Thieves, by Elizabeth Kostova. Little, Brown, $26.99.

*8. The Wolf at the Door, by Jack Higgins. Putnam, $26.95. Someone is targeting the members of an elite British intelligence team, and Sean Dillon believes it is an old nemesis.

9. Roses, by Leila Meacham. Grand Central, $24.99.

10. I, Alex Cross, by James Patterson. Little, Brown, $27.99.

Nonfiction

1. Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.

2. Committed, by Elizabeth Gilbert. Viking, $26.95.

3. Stones Into Schools, by Greg Mortenson. Viking, $26.95.

4. Have a Little Faith, by Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $23.99.

5. Going Rogue, by Sarah Palin. Harper/HarperCollins, $28.99.

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

*7. Just Kids, by Patti Smith. Ecco/HarperCollins, $27. The godmother of punk recalls her life with Robert Mapplethorpe and their yearnings for a life in art in the New York City of the 1960s and '70s.

8. The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande. Metropolitan/Holt, $24.50.

9. Superfreakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Morrow/HarperCollins, $29.99.

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

* -- Indicates first appearance on the list.