November 30, 2008
New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-seller List
| This Week | Last Week | Weeks on List | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
THE CHRISTMAS SWEATER, by Glenn Beck with Kevin
Balfe and Jason Wright (Threshold Editions, $19.99.) A boy learns from his disappointment with his mother’s gift. |
1 | |
| 2 |
JUST AFTER SUNSET, by Stephen King (Scribner, $28.) Short stories blending fantasy and psychological realism. |
1 | |
| 3 |
DIVINE JUSTICE, by David Baldacci (Grand Central, $27.) Members of Washington’s Camel Club rally to save their leader, who is hiding out in the town of Divine, Va. |
1 | 2 |
| 4 |
THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED, by Wally Lamb (Harper, $29.95.) A man reconstructs five generations of family history and secrets from a cache of old diaries and letters. |
1 | |
| 5 |
A MERCY, by Toni Morrison (Knopf, $23.95.) In 17th-century America, a slave mother urges a Northern farmer to buy her daughter so that she can have a better life. |
1 | |
| 6 | THE
GATE HOUSE, by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central, $27.99.) In a sequel to “The Gold Coast” (1990) a tax attorney and his ex-wife explore a reconciliation. |
4 | 3 |
| 7 | EXTREME MEASURES,
by Vince Flynn (Atria, $27.95.) Mitch Rapp teams up with a C.I.A. colleague to fight a terrorist cell — and the politicians who would rein them in. |
5 | 4 |
| 8 |
SALVATION IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb (Putnam, $25.95.) Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a mysterious priest; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously. |
2 | 2 |
| 9 | THE
LUCKY ONE, by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, $24.99.) A marine returning home sets out to track down the woman whose photo he found in Iraq. |
6 | 7 |
| 10 |
SWALLOWING DARKNESS, by Laurell K. Hamilton (Ballantine, $26.) In the seventh Meredith Gentry paranormal romance, Meredith is pregnant with twins. |
3 | 2 |
| 11* | THE
STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewsk (Ecco, $25.95.) A mute takes refuge with three dogs in the Wisconsin woods after his father’s death. |
9 | 23 |
| 12 | THE
BRASS VERDICT, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.) Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller (the Lincoln lawyer) team up to find a killer. |
8 | 5 |
| 13 |
THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND, by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster, $26.95.) A sheriff’s deputy is hunted in the Wisconsin woods by hit men after she finds the scene of their crime. |
1 | |
| 14 |
MIDNIGHT, by Sister Souljah (Atria, $26.95.) A boy from Sudan struggles to protect his mother and sister and remain true to his Islamic principles in a Brooklyn housing project. |
7 | 2 |
| 15 | THE
HOST, by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown, $25.99.) One woman won’t surrender to the aliens that have taken control. |
13 | 28 |
| 16* |
ENDER
IN EXILE, by Orson Scott Card (Tor/Tom Doherty, $25.95.) The latest entry in the “Ender” science fiction series. |
1 |
Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending November 15, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
List and descriptions from the New York Times web site at
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/index.html