Best Sellers Weekly Graphic: Hurricanes, Serial Killers, Murder and Nazis
Erik Larson, the author of “The Devil in the White City,” has had four books on the hardcover nonfiction list.
June 19, 2011
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Erik Larson, the author of “The Devil in the White City,” has had four books on the hardcover nonfiction list.
David Eagleman, who hits the hardcover nonfiction list this week with “Incognito,” is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun.
This Week | Last Week | Hardcover Fiction | Weeks on List |
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1 | DREAMS OF JOY, by Lisa See. (Random House, $26.) A young woman angry at her mother and aunt over family secrets runs away to Shanghai in search of her birth father. | 1 | ||
2 | 1 | DEAD RECKONING, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $27.95.) The telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse seeks the culprit in a firebombing. | 5 | |
3 | 2 | 10TH ANNIVERSARY, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club race to find a missing baby. | 5 | |
4 | 4 | BURIED PREY, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $27.95.) The Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport investigates the murders of two girls who were kidnapped in 1985. | 4 | |
5 | 5 | THE JEFFERSON KEY, by Steve Berry. (Ballantine, $26.) The former government operative Cotton Malone foils an assassination attempt on the president and finds himself at dangerous odds with a secret society. | 3 | |
6 | 6 | THE SIXTH MAN, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.) The lawyer for an alleged serial killer is murdered, and two former Secret Service agents are on the case. | 7 | |
7 | 8 | THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist. | 54 | |
8 | 7 | THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES, by Jean M. Auel. (Crown, $30.) The latest volume in a series set during the ice age. | 10 | |
9 | KISS OF SNOW, by Nalini Singh. (Berkley, $25.95.) A paranormal romance about the SnowDancer alpha, Hawke, and the young psy, Sienna; a Psy-Changeling novel. | 1 | ||
10 | TRADER OF SECRETS, by Steve Martini. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) The lawyer Paul Madriani pursues an assassin and two missing NASA scientists holding secrets. | 1 | ||
11 | 3 | CONVICTION, by Aaron Allston. (Del Rey/Ballantine/LucasBooks, $27.) The Jedi Order has taken control of the Galactic Alliance. Meanwhile, Luke and Ben Skywalker are pursuing the evil entity Abeloth; a "Star Wars" novel. | 2 | |
12 | * | 12 | CALEB'S CROSSING, by Geraldine Brooks. (Viking, $26.95.) A Puritan missionary's daughter forms a bond with a scholarly Indian. | 5 |
13 | 9 | THE SNOWMAN, by Jo Nesbo. (Knopf, $25.95.) The Oslo detective Harry Hole searches for a serial killer who builds snowmen outside the homes of his victims. | 4 | |
14 | * | 10 | THE FINAL STORM, by Jeff Shaara. (Ballantine, $28.) The three-month struggle for Okinawa in 1945, from the perspectives of combatants on both sides. | 3 |
15 | 11 | SIXKILL, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $26.95.) In the final Spenser novel, a woman dies in an actor's hotel room. | 5 | |
16 | * | 13 | THE FIFTH WITNESS, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) The lawyer Mickey Haller represents a woman facing home foreclosure who is accused of killing a banker. | 9 |