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Book Review Bestseller List

See Also: New York Times Bestseller Lists Including Children's Books


New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011


New York Times Notable Children's Books of 2011


The New York Times Bestsellers Lists (Adult Fiction and Nonfiction) titles that are currently available at the Library. Please click on the book titles (below) to enter the catalog and make your requests.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FICTION TITLES

 

Title: DEADLOCKED.
Author: Charlaine Harris
Publisher: Ace
Description: The telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse investigates a murder that has more to do with her than she imagines.



Title: THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE.
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner
Description: A new entry in the Dark Tower epic western-fantasy series; this novel, King says, is "Dark Tower 4.5."



Title: THE INNOCENT.
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Grand Central
Description: A hitman who has become a target of the government rescues a teenage girl whose parents have been murdered and who may be at the center of a dangerous conspiracy.



Title: CALICO JOE.
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Doubleday
Description: A pitcher beans a promising rookie, ending both their careers; years later, the pitcher's son brings them together.


Title: THE WITNESS.
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Putnam
Description: A programmer hides from the Russian mob in the Ozarks.



Title: ROBERT B. PARKER'S LULLABY.
Author: Ace Atkins
Publisher: Putnam
Description: Spenser helps a girl investigate her mother's murder; a continuation of the series by Parker, who died in 2010.



Title: GUILTY WIVES.
Author: James Patterson and David Ellis
Publisher: Little, Brown
Description: Four friends in Monte Carlo for a luxurious girls' vacation find themselves in prison, accused of a crime.



Title: THE LOST YEARS.
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Description: When a biblical scholar who made an amazing discovery is murdered, his daughter hunts for the killer (and a missing document).



Title: UNNATURAL ACTS
Author: Stuart Woods
Publisher: Putnam
Description: The New York lawyer Stone Barrington becomes involved in the family problems of a billionaire hedge fund manager.


Title: THE SHOEMAKER'S WIFE.
Author: Adriana Trigiani
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
Description: Childhood sweethearts in turn-of-the-20th-century Italy meet again in America.

 



 


NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NONFICTION TITLES

Title: THE PASSAGE OF POWER.
Author: Robert A Caro
Publisher: Knopf
Description: From 1958 through the Kennedy assassination; the fourth volume of "The Years of Lyndon Johnson."



Title: MY CROSS TO BEAR.
Author: Gregg Allman with Alan Light
Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins
Description: The musician's memoir.



Title: LOTS OF CANDLES, PLENTY OF CAKE.
Author: Anna Quindlen
Publisher: Random House
Description: The journalist and novelist, now nearly 60, looks back at her experiences and those of her generation.


Title: PRAGUE WINTER.
Author: Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
Description: The former secretary of state describes her family's life in Czechoslovakia, where she was born; their exile in London during World War II; their return to their homeland after the war and their final move to the United States in 1948.


Title: THE POWER OF HABIT.
Author: Charles Duhigg
Publisher: Random House
Description: A Times reporte's account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits.



Title: DRIFT.
Author: Rachel Maddow
Publisher: Crown
Description: America's path to war has become too easy, with excessive power ceded to the executive branch, the MSNBC host argues.



Title:IMAGINE.
Author: Jonah Lehrer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Description: An account of the science of creativity argues that it is not a gift but a thought process that can be learned.


Title: THE PRESIDENTS CLUB.
Author: Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Description: Two journalists examine the relationships between sitting presidents and their predecessors.



Title: KILLING LINCOLN.
Author: Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Publisher: Holt
Description: The host of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.


Title: MANHUNT.
Author: Peter L Bergen
Publisher: Crown
Description: The 10-year search for Osama bin Laden.





 

 

 

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