Bestsellers
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of August 25th, 2009)
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of August 25th, 2009)
| 1 | THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson | 1 (5) |
| 2 | THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC by Richard Russo | 4(2) |
| 3 | THE WHITE QUEEN by Philippa Gregory | (1) |
| 4 | INHERENT VICE by Thomas Pynchon | 9 (3) |
| 5 | BROOKLYN by Colm Tóibín | 7 (6) |
| 6 | THE CHILDREN’S BOOK by A.S. Byatt | 3 (19) |
| 7 | SOUTH OF BROAD by Pat Conroy | 5 (2) |
| 8 | THE BISHOP’S MAN by Linden MacIntyre | (1) |
| 9 | THE ANGEL’S GAME by Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 2 (10) |
| 10 | SHANGHAI GIRLS by Lisa See | (1) |
| 1 | OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell | 3 (39) |
| 2 | WHY YOUR WORLD IS ABOUT TO GET A WHOLE LOT SMALLER by Jeff Rubin | 4 (14) |
| 3 | EMPIRE OF ILLUSION by Chris Hedges | 1 (5) |
| 4 | THE CELLO SUITES by Eric Siblin | 7 (23) |
| 5 | GERMANY 1945 by Richard Bessel | (1) |
| 6 | THE BOLTER by Frances Osborne | 2 (8) |
| 7 | REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN EUROPE by Christopher Caldwell | 10 (2) |
| 8 | GOD IS by David Adams Richards | (1) |
| 9 | THE EVOLUTION OF GOD by Robert Wright | 5 (6) |
| 10 | SLOW DEATH BY RUBBER DUCK by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie | 8 (14) |
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