新书简介: New York Times Best Seller Lists for June 20, 2010

Fiction: The New York Times Best Seller List June 20, 2010 (ZT)

1 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf,

$27.95.) The third volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.

2 BULLET, by Laurell K. Hamilton. (Berkley, $26.95.) Anita Blake, vampire

hunter, is menaced by the Mother of All Darkness, who wants to take over her

body.

3 THE SPY, by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. (Putnam, $27.95.) In 1908, a

murder leads the detective Isaac Bell to investigate international spies who are

trying to keep America from developing a fleet of dreadnought battleships.

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

woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

5 DEAD IN THE FAMILY, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse

is exhausted in the aftermath of a Fae war.

6 61 HOURS, by Lee Child. (Delacorte, $28.) Jack Reacher helps the police in a

small South Dakota town protect a witness in a drug trial.

7 THE BURNING WIRE, by Jeffery Deaver. (Simon & Schuster, $26.99.) The

forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme investigates a series of murderous electrical

explosions and tracks the killer known as the Watchmaker to Mexico.

8 STORM PREY, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $27.95.) Lucas Davenport’s wife is

a witness to a botched robbery and murder in the 20th novel in the “Prey”

series.

9 THE BOURNE OBJECTIVE, by Eric Van Lustbader. (Grand Central, $27.99.)

Robert Ludlum’s character Jason Bourne matches wits with a vicious Russian

mercenary.

10 INNOCENT, by Scott Turow. (Grand Central, $27.99.) Turow revisits the

characters from “Presumed Innocent.”

11 HEART OF THE MATTER, by Emily Giffin. (St. Martin’s, $26.99.) The lives of

two women — one married to a pediatric plastic surgeon, the other a lawyer

and single mother — converge after an accident involving the lawyer’s son.

12 THE 9TH JUDGMENT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown,

$27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer pursues a killer who’s preying on women and

children.

13 BLOCKADE BILLY, by Stephen King. (Scribner, $14.99.) A tale about the dark

side of baseball, circa 1957.

14 ALLIES, by Christie Golden. (Del Rey/Ballantine, $27.) The Skywalkers and the

Sith undertake an unprecedented joint mission; a “Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi”

book.

15 THE RULE OF NINE, by Steve Martini. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) The

lawyer Paul Madriani pursues the hired assassin Liquida, who is out for

revenge, while a terrorist plots an attack on the United States.

Non-Fiction: The New York Times Best Seller List June 20, 2010 (ZT)

1 MY DAD SAYS, by Justin Halpern. (It Books/HarperCollins, $15.99.) A

coming-of-age memoir organized around the musings, purveyed on Twitter, of

the author’s father.

2 WAR, by Sebastian Junger. (Twelve, $26.99.) The intense lives of American

soldiers in a lethal corner of Afghanistan, by the author of “The Perfect Storm.”

3 SPOKEN FROM THE HEART, by Laura Bush. (Scribner, $30.) A memoir from

the former first lady.

4 THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $27.95.) The people who saw the

real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight.

5 CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG, by Chelsea Handler. (Grand Central,

$25.99.) More humorous personal essays from the comedian.

6 TO SAVE AMERICA, by Newt Gingrich with Joe DeSantis. (Regnery, $29.95.)

Reversing President Obama‘s policies, by the former speaker of the House of

Representatives.

7 THE LAST STAND, by Nathaniel Philbrick. (Viking, $30.) Custer, Sitting Bull and

the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

8 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people

succeed, from the author of “Blink.”

9 THE PROMISE, by Jonathan Alter. (Simon & Schuster, $28.) A detailed look at

President Obama’s decision-making process on issues like health care and the

Afghanistan war offers a sense of what it’s like to work in his White House.

10 CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, CHANGE YOUR BODY, by Daniel G. Amen. (Harmony,

$25.99.) Using the brain-body connection to lose weight and avoid depression.

11 HITCH-22, by Christopher Hitchens. (Twelve, $26.99.) The trans-Atlantic

journalist’s memoir.

12 THE UPSIDE OF IRRATIONALITY, by Dan Ariely. (Harper/HarperCollins,

$27.99.) How we can make better choices about money and relationships given

the human tendency toward irrational, emotional decision-making.

13 THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. (Crown,

$26.) Race, poverty and science intertwine in the story of the woman whose

cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951 and have supported a

mountain of research undertaken since then.

14 OPERATION MINCEMEAT, by Ben Macintyre. (Harmony, $25.99.) The British

ruse that employed a corpse to fool the Nazis about the invasion of Sicily.

15 CHORDS OF STRENGTH, by David Archuleta with Monica Haim. (Celebra,

$22.95.) A young singer who was a runner-up on “American Idol” discusses his

career, faith and family.

16 THE PACIFIC, by Hugh Ambrose. (NAL Caliber, $26.95.) Stories of Marines and

a Navy pilot during World War II; companion volume for an HBO mini-series.

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