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New York Times Bestsellers

Rankings reflect sales of hardcover fiction and nonfiction for the week ending January 28, 2012. Source: New York Times

Fiction | Nonfiction

Fiction

  1. Taken by Robert Crais
  2. Private: #1 Suspect by James Patterson
  3. Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
  4. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
  5. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
  6. Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George
  7. Raylan by Elmore Leonard
  8. The Litigators by John Grisham
  9. Darker after Midnight by Lara Adrian
  10. Locked On by Tom Clancy
  11. Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell
  12. A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
  13. Pineapple Grenade by Tim Dorsey
  14. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
  15. The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
  16. The Rope by Nevada Barr

Nonfiction

  1. Ameritopia by Mark R. Levin
  2. American Sniper by Chris Kyle
  3. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  4. Quiet by Susan Cain
  5. Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly
  6. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
  7. Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow
  8. Fairy Tale Interrupted by RoseMarie Terenzio
  9. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  10. Strategic Vision by Zbigniew Brzezinski
  11. Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith
  12. Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
  13. All In by Paula Broadwell
  14. The Obamas by Jodi Kantor
  15. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
  16. Greedy Bastards by Dylan Ratigan