New York Times Bestseller List NonFiction April 22 2012

Here are the Top 10 books on the New York Times Bestseller Non Fiction List for the Week ending April 22 2012
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10 - Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson    (24 weeks on list)
9  -  American Sniper - Chris Kyle   (14 weeks)
8  -  The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg   (6 weeks)
7  -  Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard  (28 weeks)
6  -  Wild - Cheryl Strayed   (3 weeks)
5  -  Mrs. Kennedy and Me - Clint Hill w/Lisa McCubbin  (Debut)
4  -  Imagine - Jonah Lehrer  (3 weeks)
3  -  Trickle Down Tyranny - Michael Savage  (Debut)
2  -  The Big Miss - Hank Haney   (2 weeks)
1  -  Drift - Rachel Maddow  
(2nd consecutive week at #1)

New York Times Bestseller List Fiction 4/22/2012

Here are the Top Ten Bestselling novels on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction list for the week ending April 22 2012
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10 - Beastly Things - Donna Leon  (Debut)
9  -  Lover Reborn - J.R. Ward    (2 weeks on list)
(last weeks #1)
8  -  The Beginner's Goodbye - Anne Tyler   (Debut)
7  -  Stay Close - Harlan Coben  (3 weeks)
6  -  Betrayal - Danielle Steel     (Debut)
5  -  The Shoemaker's Wife - Adriana Trigiani   (Debut)
4  -  The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection - Alexander McCall Smith
(Debut)
3  -  Sacre' Bleu - Christopher Moore    (Debut)
2  -  Guilty Wives - James Patterson   (2 weeks)
1  -  The Lost Years - Mary Higgins Clark
(Debut)

New York Times Bestseller List NonFiction 04/08/2012

Here are the top 10 books on the NY Times Bestseller list, Non Fiction for the week ending April 8th 2012

10 - Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman  (22 weeks on list)
9  -  Some Assembly Required - Anne Lamott  (debut)
8  -  Quiet - Susan Cain   (9 weeks)
7  -  Wild - Cheryl Strayed   (debut)
6  -  Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand   (71 weeks)
5  -  Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson  (22 weeks)
4  -  Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard   (26 weeks)
3  -  American Sniper - Chris Kyle  (12 weeks)
2  -  The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg   (4 weeks)
1  -  Imagine - Jonah Lehrer 
(Debut)

New York Times Bestsellers for Fiction 4/8/2012

Here are the Top 10 novels on the NY Times Bestseller list in Fiction for the week ending April 8th 2012

10 - The Wolf Gift - Anne Rice   (6 weeks on list)
9  -  Fate of the Jedi : Apocalypse - Troy Denning  (2 weeks)
8  -  Defending Jacob - William Landay  (8 weeks(
7  -  Phanton - Ted Bell   (Debut)
6  -  Private Games - James Patterson   (6 weeks)
5  -  The Thief - Clive Cussler    (3 weeks)
4  -  Kill Shot - Vince Flynn   (7 weeks)
3  -  Force of Nature - C.J. Box   (Debut)
2  -  Lone Wolf - Jodi Picoult  (4 weeks)
1  - Stay Close - Harlan Coben  
(Debut)

New York Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 03/04/2012

Here are the top 10 book on the New York Times Bestseller List (Fiction) for the week ending March 4th 2012

10 - Catch Me - Lisa Gardner  (2 weeks on list)
9  -  Home Front - Kristin Hannah  (3 weeks)
8  -  Private: #1 Suspect - James Patterson  (7 weeks)
7  -  Death Comes To Pemberley - P.D. James  (11 weeks)
6  -  11/22/63 - Stephen King   (15 weeks)
5  -  Defending Jacob - William Landay  (3 weeks)
4  -  I've Got Your Number - Sophie Kinsella  (Debut)
3  -  The Wolf Gift - Anne Rice  (Debut)
2  -  Kill Shot - Vince Flynn  (2 weeks) ( Last Weeks #1)
1  -  Private Games - James Patterson 
(Debut)

New York Times Bestseller List (Non Fiction) 02/26/2012

Here are the Top Ten books on the New York Times Non Fiction Bestseller List for the Week ending February 26th 2012

10 - Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand  (65 weeks on list)
9  -  Behind the Beautiful Flowers - Katherine Boo  (Debut)
8  -  Bringing Up Bebe - Pamela Druckerman  (Debut)
7  -  Once Upon a Secret - Mimi Alford  (Debut)
6  -  Quiet - Susan Cain   (3 weeks)
5  -  Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard  (20 weeks)
4  -  Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson  (16 weeks)
3  -  American Sniper - Chris Kyle  (6 weeks)
2  -  Hilarity Ensues - Tucker Max (Debut)
1  -  Ameritopia - Mark Levin   (4 weeks)
(3rd non consecutive week at #1)

New York Times Bestseller List 01/22/2012 Non Fiction

Here are the Top Ten Books on the New York Times Bestseller Non Fiction List for the week ending January 22nd 2012

10 - In the Garden of the Beasts - Erik Larson   (31 weeks)

9  -  Boomerang - Michael Lewis   (14 weeks)

8  -  Heaven is for Real - Todd Burpo  (6 weeks)

7  -  Through My Eyes - Tim Tebow   (18 weeks)

6  -  Catherine The Great - Robert K Massie    (8 weeks)

5  -  Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand   (60 weeks)

4  -  Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman   (11 weeks)

3  -  Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard    (15 weeks)

2  -  American Sniper - Chris Kyle w/Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice  (DEBUT)

1 -   Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson  (11 weeks)

(11 consecutive weeks at #1)

New York Times Bestseller List Fiction 1/14/2012

Here are the Top 10 books on the NY Times Bestseller list for the week ending January 14th 2012

10 - Explosive Eighteen - Janet Evanovich (6 weeks on list)
9  -  The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Steig Larsson (72 weeks)
8  -  Red Mist - Patricia Cornwell  (4 weeks)
7  -  The Best of Me - Nicholas Sparks  (12 weeks)
6  -  The Litigators - John Grisham  (10 weeks)
5  -  Kill Alex Cross - James Patterson (7 weeks)
4  -  Locked On - Tom Clancy  (3 weeks)
3  -  Death Comes To Pemberley - P.D. James  (4 weeks)
2  -  11/22/1963  -  Stephen King (8 weeks)
1  -  77 Shadow Street - Dean Koontz 
(DEBUT)
A 19th century tycoon's mansion has been turned into luxury apartments, but it remains in the grip of evil forces.

New York Times Bestseller List 12/18/2011

The New York Times Bestseller list for Fiction, the week ending December 18 2011

10 - 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
(6 weeks on list)
9  -  Micro - Michael Crichton 
(2nd week on list)
8  -  The Scottish Prisoner - Diana Gabaldon
(Debut)
7  -  V is for Vengeance - Sue Grafton
(3 weeks on list)
6  -  The Best of Me - Nicholas Sparks
(8 weeks on list)
5  -  Kill Alex Cross - James Patterson
(3 weeks on list)
4  -  The Litigators - John Grisham
(6 weeks on list)
3  -  Explosive Eighteen - Janet Evanovich
(2 weeks on list)
2  -  11/22/63 - Stephen King 
(4 weeks on list)
1  -  The Drop - Michael Connelly
(Debut)
Harry Bosch of the LAPD uncovers both the operations of a sadistic killer and a political conspiracy

Top 5

Today's Top 5 is a look at the Top 5 bestselling novels on the New York Times Bestseller list November 22nd 1981
This weeks list contained some of the biggest names in novels and some of their most famous works.


5 - The Legacy by Howard Fast

The Lavette family of ''The Immigrants'' and ''The Establishment'' reaches the turbulent 60's.

4 - Noble House by James Clavell

 A British-Chinese struggle for control of one of Hong Kong's oldest trading houses. 
The first of Clavell's 2 #1 novels and spent 15 weeks at #1 from May until August 1981.

3 - Cujo by Stephen King

Monsters haunt a New York family seeking peace in rural Maine.
This was the 3rd #1 for Stephen King, spending 5 weeks at #1.

2 - The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Life with an eccentric family

John Irving's first #1 novel, spending 9 weeks at the top of the list.

1 - An Indecent Obsession by Colleen McCullough
A nurse and her charges in a special-care ward of a WWII hospital
This is the second and last novel to reach the top of the Times bestseller list. The 'Thorn Birds' spend 15 weeks at #1 in the summer of 1977.  
This was the 2nd of 13 weeks at #1 for "Obsession".

New York Times Bestseller List 11/20/2011 Non Fiction

Here are the Top Ten Books on the New York Times Non Fiction bestseller list for the week ending November 20th 2011

10 - No Regrets - Ace Frehley and Joe Layden
9  -  Boomerang - Michael Lewis
8  -  The Time of Our Lives - Tom Brokaw
7  -  Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
6  -  Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me - Mindy Kaling
5  -  No Higher Honor - Condoleeza Rice
4  -  Blue Nights - Joan Didion
3  -  Jack Kennedy - Chris Matthews
2  -  Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
1  -  Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson 
(2nd consecutive week at #1)

New York Times Bestseller List 09/18/2011 Part 2

 Here are the Top 5 books on the NY Times Bestseller list for Fiction:

1 - Kill Me If You Can - James Patterson
(Debut)
When a young man finds a bag of diamonds, he gets the attention of the major assassin the Ghost, and a rival assassin who wants the Ghost gone forever.

2 - The Sookie Stackhouse Companion - Charlaine Harris
(Debut) A closer look at the telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, her family and, of course, her lovers

3 - A Dance With Dragons - George R.R. Martin
(8 weeks on List)  After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."

4 - A Trick of the Light - Louis Penny
(Debut)  Called to a case, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of homicide encounters a world where nothing is as it seems.

 5 - Flash and Bones - Kathy Reichs 
 (2nd weeks on list)                                                     A turbocharged case unfolds for the forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan in the series behind the show "Bones."

New York Times Bestseller List 09/18/2011

Here are the Top 5 bestselling Books on the NY Times Bestseller list for Non Fiction:

1 - In My Time - Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney
(Debut)

2 - A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard
(8 weeks on list)

3 - Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
(42 weeks on list)

4 - In The Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson
(17 weeks on list)

5 - The Greater Journey - David McCullough
(15 weeks on list)

New York Times Bestseller List 07/31/2011

Here are the top 5 books on the New York Times Bestseller List (Non Fiction) for the week ending July 31st 2011


Non Fiction

1 - A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard (Debut)

2 - Unbroken - Laura Hilenbrand (35th week on list)

3 - In the Garden of the Beasts - Erik Larson (10th week on list)

4 - Bossypants - Tina Fey (15th week on list)

5 - Of Thee I Zing - Laura Ingraham (Debut)

New York Times Bestseller List 07/31/2011

Here are the top 5 books on the New York Times Bestseller List (Fiction) for the week ending 07/31/2011

Fiction

1 -  A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin (Debut)

2 - Now You See Her - James Patterson (3 weeks on list)

3 - Then Came You - Jennifer Weiner (Debut)

4 - Smokin Seventeen - Janet Evanovich (4th week on list)

5 - Quinn - Iris Johansen (Debut)

New York Times Bestseller List 07/02/2011

Here are the New York Times Fiction Bestsellers for the week ending July 2nd 2011

1 - Against All Enemies - Tom Clancy (Debut)
Maxwell Moore pursues the terrorists who killed his C.I.A. colleagues in a bomb attack in Pakistan.


2 - One Summer - David Baldacci (Debut)
 After the death of his devoted wife, a father struggles to keep his family together, and in the process learns to love again.


3 - State of Wonder - Anne Patchett (2 weeks on list)
In the Amazon basin, a medical researcher searches for her former mentor, a despotic scientist who is developing a miracle fertility drug.


4 - Folly Beach - Dorothea Benton Frank (Debut)
 A widow returns to her childhood home in South Carolina and finds love and a literary puzzle.


5 - Carte Blance - Jeffrey Deaver (Debut)
A young James Bond, on a global mission for a unit of British security, must foil a plot to kill thousands of citizens.

New York Times Bestseller List 06/19/2011

This week we have new #1 books atop both the fiction and non fiction list of the New York Times Bestseller List.

Here is the Top 5 bestsellers in Non Fiction for the week ending June 19th 2011

1 - The Greater Journey - David McCullough (2 weeks on list)
The historian explores the intellectual legacy that France settled on its 19th-century visitors.


2 - In the Garden of the Beasts - Erik Larson (4 weeks)
This portrait of Berlin during the rise of the Nazi Party concentrates on William E. Dodd, who became the U.S. ambassador to Germany in 1933, and his daughter, Martha.


3 - Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand (29 weeks)
An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

4 - Bossypants - Tina Fey (9 weeks)

5 - Those Guys Have All the Fun - James A Miller and Tom Shales (2 weeks)
An oral history of the sports network ESPN.


Here is the Top 5 bestsellers in Fiction for the week ending June 19th 2011

1 - Dreams of Joy - Lisa See (Debut)
 A young woman angry at her mother and aunt over family secrets runs away to Shanghai in search of her birth father.


2 - Dead Reckoning - Charlaine Harris (5 weeks)
 The telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse seeks the culprit in a firebombing.


3 - 10th Anniversary - James Patterson (5 weeks)
Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club race to find a missing baby.


4 - Buried Prey - John Sanford (4 weeks)
 The Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport investigates the murders of two girls who were kidnapped in 1985.


5 - The Jefferson Key - Steve Berry (3 weeks)
 The former government operative Cotton Malone foils an assassination attempt on the president and finds himself at dangerous odds with a secret society.