Boston Globe Bestsellers Dec. 12-19
"Freedom" returned to the top of the hardcover fiction list.
"Cleopatra" triumphed in hardcover nonfiction.
"Little Bee" enjoyed a dramatic jump in popularity this past week and claimed the top spot in paperback fiction.
"Inside of a Dog" prevailed in paperback nonfiction.
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Hardcover Fiction
1. Freedom
By Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
2. Moonlight Mile
By Dennis Lehane. William Morrow.
3. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
By David Sedaris. Little, Brown.
4. An Object of Beauty
By Steve Martin. Grand Central.
5. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
By Stieg Larsson. Knopf.
6. Luka and the Fire of Life
By Salman Rushdie. Random House.
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth
By Jeff Kinney. Amulet.
8. Dead or Alive
By Tom Clancy and Grant Blackwood. Putnam.
9. Hell’s Corner
By David Baldacci. Grand Central.
10. Room
By Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown.
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Cleopatra
By Stacy Schiff. Little, Brown.
2. Life
By Keith Richards. Little, Brown.
3. Unbroken
By Laura Hillenbrand. Random House.
4. The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1
By Mark Twain. University of California.
5. Flour
By Joanne Chang. Chronicle.
6. Earth (The Book)
By Jon Stewart. Grand Central.
7. Decision Points
By George W. Bush. Crown.
8. Atlantic
By Simon Winchester. Harper.
9. Simply Ming One-Pot Meals (tie)
By Ming Tsai and Arthur Boehm. Kyle.
9. I Remember Nothing
By Nora Ephron. Knopf.
Paperback Fiction
1. Little Bee
By Chris Cleave. Simon & Schuster.
2. Cutting for Stone
By Abraham Verghese. Vintage.
3. Tinkers
By Paul Harding. Bellevue.
4. The Finkler Question
By Howard Jacobson. Bloomsbury.
5. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
By Helen Simonson. Random House.
6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.
7. Too Much Happiness
By Alice Munro. Vintage.
8. A Gate at the Stairs
By Lorrie Moore. Vintage.
9. The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins. Scholastic.
10. The Girl Who Played with Fire
By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.
Paperback Nonfiction
1. Inside of a Dog
By Alexandra Horowitz. Scribner.
2. Just Kids
By Patti Smith. Ecco.
3. Zeitoun
By Dave Eggers. Vintage.
4. Eat, Pray, Love
By Elizabeth Gilbert. Penguin.
5. The Book of Basketball
By Bill Simmons. ESPN.
6. Kitchen Confidential
By Anthony Bourdain. Ecco.
7. The Cello Suites (tie)
By Eric Siblin. Grove .
7. The Best American Sports Writing 2010
Edited by Peter Gammons. Mariner.
9. Waiting for ‘‘SUPERMAN’’
Edited by Karl Weber. PublicAffairs.
10. Stones into Schools
By Greg Mortenson. Penguin.
Source: Boston area bookstores
