Boston Globe Bestsellers: Oct. 24-31
"Freedom" held on to the number one position in hardcover fiction.
"At Home" topped the hardcover nonfiction list.
"Cutting for Stone" was the best paperback fiction seller.
"The Accidental Billionaires" usurped "Eat, Pray, Love" at the top of the paperback nonfiction list.
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Hardcover Fiction
1. Freedom
By Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
2. Great House
By Nicole Krauss. W. W. Norton.
3. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
By David Sedaris. Little, Brown.
4. Our Kind of Traitor
By John le Carré. Viking.
5. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (tie)
By Stieg Larsson. Knopf.
5. Fall of Giants
By Ken Follett. Dutton.
7. The Lost Hero
By Rick Riordan. Hyperion.
8. Worth Dying For
By Lee Child. Delacorte.
9. American Assassin (tie)
By Vince Flynn. Atria.
9. The Cookbook Collector
By Allegra Goodman. Dial.
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. At Home
By Bill Bryson. Doubleday.
2. Earth (The Book)
By Jon Stewart. Grand Central.
3. The Last Boy
By Jane Leavy. Harper.
4. The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1
By Mark Twain. University of California.
5. Obama’s Wars
By Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster.
6. Spend Shift
By John Gerzema and Michael D’Antonio. Jossey-Bass.
7. [expletive] Finish First (tie)
By Tucker Max. Gallery.
7. Aftershock
By David Wiedemer, Robert Wiedemer, and Cindy Spitzer. Wiley.
9. The Whites of their Eyes (tie)
By Jill Lepore. Princeton.
9. Travels in Siberia
By Ian Frazier. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Paperback Fiction
1. Cutting for Stone
By Abraham Verghese. Vintage.
2. Tinkers
By Paul Harding. Bellevue.
3. Little Bee
By Chris Cleave. Simon & Schuster.
4. The Girl who Played with Fire (tie)
By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.
6. A Gate at the Stairs
By Lorrie Moore. Vintage.
7. The Finkler Question
By Howard Jacobson. Bloomsbury.
8. The Alchemist (tie)
By Paulo Coelho. HarperCollins.
8. Things Fall Apart
By Chinua Achebe. Anchor.
10. The Best American Short Stories 2010
Edited by Richard Russo. Mariner.
Paperback Nonfiction
1. The Accidental Billionaires
By Ben Mezrich. Anchor.
2. Eat, Pray, Love
By Elizabeth Gilbert. Penguin.
3. Zeitoun
By Dave Eggers. Vintage.
4. Inside of a Dog
By Alexandra Horowitz. Scribner.
5. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
By Rhoda Janzen. Holt.
6. The Wisdom to Know the Difference
By Eileen Flanagan. Tarcher.
7. Open: An Autobiography
By Andre Agassi. Vintage.
8. D-Day
By Antony Beevor. Penguin.
9. Freefall (tie)
By Joseph E. Stiglitz. W. W. Norton.
9. Justice
By Michael J. Sandel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Source: Boston area bookstores.
