Bestsellers - Week of December 12th, 2011
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles
| 1 | DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY by P.D. James | 8 (2) |
| 2 | THE CAT’S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje | 1 (16) |
| 3 | 11/22/63 by Stephen King | 2 (5) |
| 4 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R.R. Martin | 9 (22) |
| 5 | THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by Julian Barnes | 3 (19) |
| 6 | THE PRAGUE CEMETERY by Umberto Eco | 4 (5) |
| 7 | THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern | 5 (13) |
| 8 | THE DROP by Michael Connelly | (1) |
| 9 | THE STRANGER’S CHILD by Alan Hollinghurst | 10 (10) |
| 10 | A GOOD MAN by Guy Vanderhaeghe | 6 (2) |
| 1 | STEVE JOBS by Walter Isaacson | 1 (8) |
| 2 | CIVILIZATION by Niall Ferguson | 8 (6) |
| 3 | WHEN THE GODS CHANGED by Peter C. Newman | (1) |
| 4 | INTO THE SILENCE by Wade Davis | 3 (11) |
| 5 | THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE by Steven Pinker | (1) |
| 6 | ELUSIVE DESTINY by Paul Litt | (1) |
| 7 | CATHERINE THE GREAT by Robert Massie | 2 (3) |
| 8 | NATION MAKER by Richard Gwyn | 9 (9) |
| 9 | THE TABLE COMES FIRST by Adam Gopnik | 6 (7) |
| 10 | THE END by Ian Kershaw | 5 (2) |
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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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