Best Sellers Weekly Graphic: E-No. 1
The titles that have held the top spot on the e-book best-seller lists since the The Times began publishing rankings of e-books in February.
June 12, 2011
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The titles that have held the top spot on the e-book best-seller lists since the The Times began publishing rankings of e-books in February.
Beach-reading season may be in full swing, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a whole lot of constitutional law being debated on the best-seller list.
This Week | Paperback Trade Fiction | Weeks on List |
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1 | THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Berkley, $16.) Three women — a white socialite and two black maids — work on a tell-all book about black domestic servants in 1960s Mississippi. | 8 | |
2 | WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin, $13.95.) Distraught after the death of his parents in a car accident, a young veterinary student — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus. | 122 | |
3 | ROOM, by Emma Donoghue. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.99.) The entire world of the 5-year-old boy who narrates this novel is the 11-by-11-foot room in which his mother is being held prisoner. | 4 | |
4 | A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD, by Jennifer Egan. (Anchor, $14.95.) Time is the relentless “goon squad” in this rock ’n’ roll novel, which explores the tattered lives of a cynical record producer and the people who intersect his world; a 2011 Pulitzer winner. | 10 | |
5 | CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese. (Vintage, $15.95.) Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia. | 70 | |
6 | THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein. (Harper Paperbacks, $14.99.) An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver. | 103 | |
7 | * | SOMETHING BORROWED, by Emily Giffin. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99.) A diligent maid of honor to her charmed best friend, Rachel White has always played by the rules. But that changes on the night of her 30th birthday. | 8 |
8 | THE PASSAGE, by Justin Cronin. (Ballantine, $16.) In a dystopian future, a small group resists a military-engineered race of vampires who have taken over North America, and a little girl holds the key to saving a ruined world. | 2 | |
9 | ONE DAY, by David Nicholls. (Vintage, $14.95.) Checking in year by year on the confused, halting romance of two children of the ’80s. | 13 | |
10 | INNOCENT, by Scott Turow. (Grand Central, $14.99.) When Rusty Sabich’s wife is found dead, Tommy Molto accuses him of murder for the second time, 23 years after "Presumed Innocent." | 3 | |
11 | * | THE 9TH JUDGMENT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Grand Central, $14.99.) A mother and her child are gunned down, and Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club have only a shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled in lipstick. | 7 |
12 | THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne, $14.99.) In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny. | 178 | |
13 | A DOG'S PURPOSE, by W. Bruce Cameron. (Forge, $12.99.) From stray mutt to golden-haired puppy, a dog finds himself reincarnated over the years as he searches for his purpose in life. | 1 | |
14 | FULL DARK, NO STARS, by Stephen King. (Gallery, $16.) Four long stories, light on the supernatural and dealing mostly with grisly human behavior. | 1 | |
15 | * | FLY AWAY HOME, by Jennifer Weiner. (Washington Square, $15.) A senator’s extramarital affair draws his wife and daughters into the painful glare of the national spotlight. | 5 |
16 | THE POSTMISTRESS, by Sarah Blake. (Berkley, $15.) A tale of two worlds and two women delivering the news in 1940: Iris James, a spinster who runs the post office in a coastal Massachusetts town, and Frankie Bard, a reporter in London with Edward R. Murrow. | 17 | |
17 | THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $14.95.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress; the first volume in the Millennium trilogy. | 101 | |
18 | * | SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN, by Lisa See. (Random House, $15.) Two women in 19th-century China establish a lifeline based on a secret form of communication. | 14 |
19 | SARAH’S KEY, by Tatiana de Rosnay. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $13.95.) A contemporary American journalist investigates what happened to a little girl and her family during the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942. | 118 | |
20 | HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET, by Jamie Ford. (Ballantine, $15.) A friendship between a Chinese-American boy and a Japanese-American girl in Seattle during World War II. | 53 | |