Bestsellers - Week of December 19th, 2011
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles
| 1 | DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY by P.D. James | 1 (3) |
| 2 | THE CAT’S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje | 2 (17) |
| 3 | THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by Julian Barnes | 5 (20) |
| 4 | THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern | 7 (14) |
| 5 | 11/22/63 by Stephen King | 3 (6) |
| 6 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R.R. Martin | 4 (23) |
| 7 | A GOOD MAN by Guy Vanderhaeghe | 10 (3) |
| 8 | THE DROP by Michael Connelly | 8 (2) |
| 9 | 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami | (1) |
| 10 | THE STRANGER’S CHILD by Alan Hollinghurst | 9 (11) |
| 1 | STEVE JOBS by Walter Isaacson | 1 (9) |
| 2 | CIVILIZATION by Niall Ferguson | 2 (7) |
| 3 | THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman | (1) |
| 4 | ARGUABLY by Christopher Hitchens | (1) |
| 5 | ELUSIVE DESTINY by Paul Litt | 6 (2) |
| 6 | CATHERINE THE GREAT by Robert Massie | 7 (4) |
| 7 | THE TABLE COMES FIRST by Adam Gopnik | 9 (8) |
| 8 | NATION MAKER by Richard Gwyn | 8 (10) |
| 9 | INTO THE SILENCE by Wade Davis | 4 (12) |
| 10 | WHEN THE GODS CHANGED by Peter C. Newman | 3 (2) |
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