The New York Times Best Sellers List

By: JournalNow Staff | THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: March 21, 2010

Fiction

*1. House Rules, by Jodi Picoult. Atria, $28. A teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome is accused of murder.

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

3. Fantasy in Death, by J.D. Robb. Putnam, $26.95.

*4. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, by Seth Grahame-Smith. Grand Central, $21.99. Lincoln fights the undead; by the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

5. Worst Case, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Little, Brown, $27.99.

6. Big Girl, by Danielle Steel. Delacorte, $28.

7. Black Magic Sanction, by Kim Harrison. Eos/HarperCollins, $25.99.

8. Split Image, by Robert B. Parker. Putnam, $25.95.

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

10. The Postmistress, by Sarah Blake. Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $25.95.

Nonfiction

*1. No Apology, by Mitt Romney. St. Martin's, $25.99. The former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate calls for economic and civic revitalization.

*2. Lift, by Kelly Corrigan. Voice/Hyperion, $16.99. Stories about parenting, written as a letter to the author's daughters.

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

*4. Not Without Hope, by Nick Schuyler and Jere Longman. Morrow/HarperCollins, $25.99. A man survives a deep-sea fishing trip gone terribly wrong.

5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. Crown, $26.

*6. No One Would Listen, by Harry Markopolos with others. Wiley, $27.95. The man who blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff and was ignored.

*7. The Pacific, by Hugh Ambrose. NAL Caliber, $26.95. Stories of Marines and a Navy pilot during World War II; companion volume for an HBO mini-series.

8. Willie Mays, by James S. Hirsch. Scribner, $30.

9. The Politician, by Andrew Young. Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, $24.99.

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

* -- Indicates first appearance on the list.