Bestsellers - Week of April 9th, 2012
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles
| 1 | WHY MEN LIE by Linden MacIntyre | 1 (2) |
| 2 | THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION by Alexander McCall Smith | 5 (2) |
| 3 | THE IMPOSTER BRIDE by Nancy Richler | 3 (3) |
| 4 | THE CAT’S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje | 10 (32) |
| 5 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R.R. Martin | 8 (38) |
| 6 | SACRE BLEU by Christopher Moore | (1) |
| 7 | BELIEVING THE LIE by Elizabeth George | 9 (14) |
| 8 | TRIGGERS by Robert J. Sawyer | (1) |
| 9 | DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY by P.D. James | 2 (18) |
| 10 | WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK by athan Englander | 6 (7) |
| 1 | THE WORLD OF DOWNTON ABBEY by Jessica Fellowes | 1 (11) |
| 2 | QUIET by Susan Cain | 4 (7) |
| 3 | RELIGION FOR ATHEISTS by Alain de Botton | 5 (5) |
| 4 | BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS by Katherine Boo | 9 (7) |
| 5 | THINKING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder | 3 (2) |
| 6 | TURING’S CATHEDRAL by George Dyson | 7 (4) |
| 7 | THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman | 2 (2) |
| 8 | LONDONERS by Craig Taylor | 6 (5) |
| 9 | REVELATIONS by Elaine Pagels | 10 (3) |
| 10 | EATING DIRT by Charlotte Gill | 8 (9) |
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Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.
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