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The New York Times Best Seller List

This document provides a list of the top 15 fiction and non-fiction books on the New York Times Best Seller List for the week of October 25, 2009. In the fiction list, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol held the #1 spot for the fourth week, while Charlaine Harris' A Touch of Dead and Robert B. Parker's The Professional were new to the list at #2 and #4 respectively. In the non-fiction list, Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith remained at #1 for a second week, while Glenn Beck's Argueing with Idiots held the #2 spot for a third week and Edward M. Kennedy's autobiography True Compass held steady at #3 for a

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The New York Times Best Seller List

This document provides a list of the top 15 fiction and non-fiction books on the New York Times Best Seller List for the week of October 25, 2009. In the fiction list, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol held the #1 spot for the fourth week, while Charlaine Harris' A Touch of Dead and Robert B. Parker's The Professional were new to the list at #2 and #4 respectively. In the non-fiction list, Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith remained at #1 for a second week, while Glenn Beck's Argueing with Idiots held the #2 spot for a third week and Edward M. Kennedy's autobiography True Compass held steady at #3 for a

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The New York Times Best Seller List

This October 25, 2009 Last Weeks


Week Fiction Week On List

1 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday, $29.95.) Robert Langdon 1 4


among the Masons.

2 A TOUCH OF DEAD, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $23.95.) The complete Sookie -- 1


Stackhouse stories.

3 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white 5 28


woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

4 THE PROFESSIONAL, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $26.95.) Rich women -- 1


are turning up dead, and the Boston P.I. Spenser investigates.

5 THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $24.99.) A 17-year-old 4 5


girl spends the summer with her divorced father in North Carolina and finds
many kinds of love.

6 EVIDENCE, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $28.) The Los Angeles -- 1


psychologist-detective Alex Delaware helps solve the grisly murder of an
architect and his companion.

7 HALF BROKE HORSES, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner, $26.) A re-creation of -- 1


the life of the author’s grandmother, a mustang breaker, schoolteacher, ranch
wife and mother of two who grew up in the Southwest in the early 20th century,
by the author of “The Glass Castle.”

8 AN ECHO IN THE BONE, by Diana Gabaldon. (Delacorte, $30.) The 2 3


descendants of Jamie Fraser and his wife, Claire, search for clues about their
flight from North Carolina during the Revolution; the seventh Outlander novel.

9 ROUGH COUNTRY, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $26.95.) Virgil Flowers 3 2


investigates a string of murders at a Minnesota resort for women.

10 HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY, by Audrey Niffenegger. (Scribner, $26.99.) A 6 2


woman haunts the flat she’s left to her twin nieces near Highgate Cemetery in
London.

11 THE GHOST KING, by R. A. Salvatore. (Wizards of the Coast, $27.95.) In the -- 1


final book of the Transitions fantasy series, Drizzt faces a powerful foe, a
demonic crystal shard.

12 THE CHRISTMAS LIST, by Richard Paul Evans. (Simon & Schuster, $19.99.) -- 1
A man changes his life after he reads his own obituary and learns what others
think of him.

13 THE UNSEEN ACADEMICALS, by Terry Pratchett. (Harper/HarperCollins, -- 1


$25.99.) In this Discworld fantasy, the benevolent tyrant of Ankh-Morpork
suggests that Unseen University put together a football team.

14 SOUTH OF BROAD, by Pat Conroy. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $29.95.) An 8 9


unlikely group’s friendship from the ’60s to the ’80s, by the author of "The
Prince of Tides."

15 DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse 13 23


searches for the killer of a werepanther.
The New York Times Best Seller List
This October 25, 2009 Last Weeks
Week Non-Fiction Week On List

1 HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. (Hyperion, $23.99.) A suburban rabbi 1 2


and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.

2 ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and 2 3
others. (Mercury Radio Arts/Threshold Editions, $29.99.) The case against big
government.

3 TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy. (Twelve, $35.) The late senator’s 3 4


autobiography.

4 WHERE MEN WIN GLORY, by Jon Krakauer. (Doubleday, $27.95.) The story 7 4
of Pat Tillman, the N.F.L. player who enlisted after 9/11, and the Army’s cover-
up of his death by friendly fire in Afghanistan.

5 THE MURDER OF KING TUT, by James Patterson and Martin Dugard. (Little, 5 2
Brown, $26.99.) Investigating the Boy King’s sudden death.

6 THE TIME OF MY LIFE, by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi. (Atria, $26.) A 4 2
memoir by the actor, who died in September, and his wife.

7 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people 9 47


succeed, from the author of “Blink.”

8 THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, by Richard Dawkins. (Free Press, $30.) 8 3


Evidence for evolution; a counterattack on advocates of intelligent design.

9 THE NATIONAL PARKS, by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. (Knopf, $50.) A 15 2
companion to the PBS series.

10 HALF THE SKY, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. (Knopf, $27.95.) 13 3
Women fighting sexual oppression in Asia and Africa.

11 HIGH ON ARRIVAL, by Mackenzie Phillips with Hilary Liftin. (Simon Spotlight 6 3


Entertainment, $25.99.) The actress and daughter of Papa John Phillips recalls
a life of parties, drugs and a complicated relationship with her father.

12 OFFICIAL BOOK CLUB SELECTION, by Kathy Griffin. (Ballantine, $25.) A 10 5


humorous memoir from the star of “My Life on the D-List.”

13 AMERICAN ON PURPOSE, by Craig Ferguson. (Harper/HarperCollins, 11 3


$25.99.) The Scottish-born comedian describes his journey to television
stardom and American citizenship.

14 THE CASE FOR GOD, by Karen Armstrong. (Knopf, $27.95.) Armstrong, a 16 3


former nun, seeks to rescue the idea of God from atheists and literal-minded
believers alike.

15 READ MY PINS, by Madeleine Albright. (Harper/HarperCollins, $40.) A look at -- 1


the former secretary of state’s life, and her diplomacy, through the brooches
she wore.

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