| COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION | WEEKS ON LIST | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Penguin Group.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi. | 46 | |
| 2 | 1 | THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress 40 years earlier. | 20 | |
| 3 | 3 | 11/22/63, by Stephen King. (Scribner.) An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald. | 8 | |
| 4 | 5 | KILL ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown & Company.) Alex Cross investigates when the president’s children are kidnapped, but the F.BI. and C.I.A. interfere. | 7 | |
| 5 | 4 | THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) Partners in a small law firm take on a big case after a fast-track burnout joins them. | 10 | |
| 6 | 10 | THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE,by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) In the second volume of the Millennium trilogy, a Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect. | 12 | |
| 7 | 8 | THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central Publishing.) A man and woman who have gone their separate ways return to their Southern town for the funeral of a friend. | 12 | |
| 8 | 77 SHADOW STREET, by Dean Koontz. (Random House Publishing.) A 19th-century tycoon’s mansion turned into luxury apartments remains in the grip of evil forces. | 1 | ||
| 9 | WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin.) After his parents die in a car accident, a young veterinary student — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus. | 32 | ||
| 10 | HIDDEN SUMMIT, by Robyn Carr. (Harlequin.) Sick of her ex-husband and his new wife, Leslie Petruso meets someone else who thinks he’s done with love. | 1 | ||
| 11 | SPIRIT BOUND, by Christine Feehan. (Penguin Group.) In the town of Sea Haven, an undercover agent insinuates himself into the life of an elusive woman with ties to the crime lord he’s determined to trap. | 1 | ||
| 12 | 11 | EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. (Random House Publishing.) After a disastrous vacation in Hawaii, Stephanie Plum becomes the target of an international killer. | 6 | |
| 13 | 14 | THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist. | 19 | |
| 14 | 9 | RED MIST, by Patricia Cornwell. (Penguin Group.) The chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates a string of killings linked to the murder of her former deputy. | 4 | |
| 15 | 6 | LOCKED ON, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney. (Penguin Group.) Jack Ryan Jr. must stop an emerging threat from a Pakistani general. | 3 | |
From The New York Times on 08-01-2012
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