Boston Globe Bestsellers: Oct. 10-17
"Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk" is the highest hardcover fiction seller.
"Earth (The Book)" topped hardcover nonfiction sales.
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" returned to the top of the paperback fiction list.
"Eat, Pray, Love" is still the best paperback nonfiction seller.
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Hardcover Fiction
1. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
By David Sedaris. Little, Brown.
2. Freedom
By Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
By Stieg Larsson. Knopf.
4. Reversal
By Michael Connelly. Little, Brown.
5. Fall of Giants
By Ken Follett. Dutton.
6. To the End of the Land
By David Grossman. Knopf.
7. Sugar and Spice
By Lauren Conrad. HarperCollins.
8. Don’t Blink
By James Patterson and Howard Roughan. Little, Brown.
9. The Help (tie)
By Kathryn Stockett. Putnam.
9. Painted Ladies
By Robert B. Parker. Putnam.
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Earth (The Book)
By Jon Stewart. Grand Central.
2. At Home
By Bill Bryson. Doubleday.
3. Obama’s Wars
By Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster.
4. [expletive] Finish First
By Tucker Max. Gallery.
5. The Grand Design
By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. Bantam.
6. Washington: A Life
By Ron Chernow. Penguin.
7. Sh*t My Dad Says
By Justin Halpern. It.
8. Moral Landscape
By Sam Harris. Free Press.
9. Trickle Up Poverty (tie)
By Michael Savage. William Morrow.
9. The Wave
By Susan Casey. Doubleday.
Paperback Fiction
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.
2. The Girl who Played with Fire
By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.
3. Little Bee
By Chris Cleave. Simon & Schuster.
4. Cutting for Stone
By Abraham Verghese. Vintage.
5. Tinkers
By Paul Harding. Bellevue.
6. A Gate at the Stairs
By Lorrie Moore. Vintage.
7. Sarah’s Key
By Tatiana de Rosnay. St. Martin’s Griffin.
8. Wolf Hall
By Hilary Mantel. Picador.
9. Half Broke Horses
By Jeannette Walls. Scribner.
10. The Corrections
By Jonathan Franzen. Picador.
Paperback Nonfiction
1. Eat, Pray, Love
By Elizabeth Gilbert. Penguin.
2. The Accidental Billionaires
By Ben Mezrich. Anchor.
3. Too Big to Fail
By Andrew Ross Sorkin. Penguin.
4. Inside of a Dog (tie)
By Alexandra Horowitz. Scribner.
4. The Tipping Point
By Malcolm Gladwell. Back Bay.
6. Zeitoun
By Dave Eggers. Vintage.
7. Waiting for ‘‘SUPERMAN’’
By Participant Media, edited by Karl Weber. PublicAffairs.
8. My Horizontal Life (tie)
By Chelsea Handler. Bloomsbury.
8. Open: An Autobiography
By Andre Agassi. Vintage.
8. Getting Things Done
By David Allen. Penguin.
Source: Boston area bookstores.
