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.
