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The New York Times Best Seller List

This document summarizes the top 15 fiction and non-fiction books on the New York Times Best Seller List for the week of July 26, 2009. In fiction, the top book was Black Hills by Nora Roberts, about a wildlife biologist and ex-cop who reunite to pursue a serial killer. In non-fiction, the top book was Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, examining why some people succeed more than others. The list provides the ranking, book title, author, publisher and price for each of the top 15 books in fiction and non-fiction.

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The New York Times Best Seller List

This document summarizes the top 15 fiction and non-fiction books on the New York Times Best Seller List for the week of July 26, 2009. In fiction, the top book was Black Hills by Nora Roberts, about a wildlife biologist and ex-cop who reunite to pursue a serial killer. In non-fiction, the top book was Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, examining why some people succeed more than others. The list provides the ranking, book title, author, publisher and price for each of the top 15 books in fiction and non-fiction.

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The New York Times Best Seller List

This July 26, 2009 Last Weeks


Week Fiction Week On List

1 BLACK HILLS, by Nora Roberts. (Putnam, $26.95.) A South Dakota wildlife -- 1


biologist and an ex-cop, childhood sweethearts, reunite to pursue a serial killer.

2 SWIMSUIT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A 1 2


former cop, now a reporter for The Los Angeles Times, investigates the
disappearance of a supermodel.

3 FINGER LICKIN’ FIFTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin’s, $27.95.) The 2 3


bounty hunter Stephanie Plum tracks a celebrity chef’s killer.

4 THE DEVIL’S PUNCHBOWL, by Greg Iles. (Scribner, $26.99.) The mayor of -- 1


Natchez, Miss., pursues a killer who opposes his attempt to clean up riverboat
gambling.

5 THE APOSTLE, by Brad Thor. (Atria, $26.99.) Scot Harvath, a Homeland 3 2


Security superagent, is asked to free an Al Qaeda mastermind from an Afghan
prison as part of a ransom deal.

6 BURN, by Linda Howard. (Ballantine, $26.) A lottery winner on a luxury cruise -- 1


is mysteriously taken hostage.

7 THE DOOMSDAY KEY, by James Rollins. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $27.99.) 5 3


Sigma Force operatives attempt to solve an ancient mystery that has deadly
consequences.

8 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white 9 15


woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

9 RETURN TO SULLIVANS ISLAND, by Dorothea Benton Frank. 14 2


(Morrow/HarperCollins, $25.99.) A young woman returns to her family’s South
Carolina island home.

10 THE CASTAWAYS, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) A Nantucket -- 1


couple drowns, raising questions and precipitating conflicts among their group
of friends.

11 BY HERESIES DISTRESSED, by David Weber. (Tor/Tom Doherty, $27.99.) -- 1


Intrigue on the planet Safehold.

12 SHANGHAI GIRLS, by Lisa See. (Random House, $25.) Two Chinese sisters 6 7
in the 1930s are sold as wives to men from California, and leave their war-torn
country to join them.

13 THE ANGEL'S GAME, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. (Doubleday, $26.95.) A 8 4


Barcelona writer accepts a sinister commission.

14 KNOCKOUT, by Catherine Coulter. (Putnam, $26.95.) Dillon Savich and Lacey 4 4


Sherlock — F.B.I. agents as well as husband and wife — try to protect a 7-
year-old with psychic powers from her exploitive criminal uncle.

15 THE PHYSICK BOOK OF DELIVERANCE DANE, by Katherine Howe. (Voice, 10 5


$25.99.) A graduate student is caught up in her research on a healer accused
of witchcraft in Salem.

16 DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse 13 10


searches for the killer of a werepanther.
The New York Times Best Seller List
This July 26, 2009 Last Weeks
Week Non-Fiction Week On List

1 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people 3 34


succeed, from the author of “Blink.”

2 LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $25.) A 2 16


conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal
Foundation.

3 CATASTROPHE, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (Harper/HarperCollins, 1 3


$26.99.) Stopping President Obama before he transforms America into a
socialist state.

4 HORSE SOLDIERS, by Doug Stanton. (Scribner, $28.) A small group of 4 9


Special Forces soldiers fought the Taliban on horseback shortly after 9/11.

5 THE END OF OVEREATING, by David A. Kessler. (Rodale, $25.95.) How 5 10


eating sugar, fat and salt affects our minds and bodies and encourages
overindulgence.

6 THE GIRLS FROM AMES, by Jeffrey Zaslow. (Gotham, $26.) An enduring 7 11


friendship among a group of Midwestern women.

7 ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler. (Simon 9 46
Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) Humorous personal essays from the stand-up
comedian.

8 TEARS IN THE DARKNESS, by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman. -- 3


(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) The Bataan death march and its aftermath.

9 MOMMYWOOD, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin. (Simon Spotlight -- 5


Entertainment, $25.) Humorous stories about Hollywood motherhood.

10 FIRST THINGS FIRST, by Kurt Warner and Brenda Warner with Jennifer -- 1
Schuchmann. (Tyndale House, $24.99.) The quarterback and his wife discuss
family rules and values.

11 HOW THE MIGHTY FALL, by Jim Collins. (Jim Collins/HarperCollins, $23.99.) -- 5


Companies fail in stages, and their decline can be detected and reversed.

12 FREE, by Chris Anderson. (Hyperion, $26.99.) How businesses can profit by -- 1


giving things away.

13 A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. (Broadway, $26.) The 11 39


Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.

14 CRAZY FOR THE STORM, by Norman Ollestad. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $25.99.) 10 4


An 11-year-old survives the plane crash that killed his father and hikes down a
mountain alone in a blizzard.

15 RENEGADE, by Richard Wolffe. (Crown, $26.) The rise of Barack Obama, 6 6


based on a dozen interviews.

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