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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Self-pub eBooks on NYT bestseller list

The Mill River Recluse and The Abbey maintain ratings

Print and eBook Fiction Combined List:

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1. THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central Publishing.) Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.
2. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Penguin Group.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
3. THE AFFAIR, by Lee Child. (Delacorte.) For Jack Reacher, an elite military police officer, it all started in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up.
4. THE MARRIAGE PLOT, by Jeffrey Eugenides. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux.) Three Brown graduates in the early 1980s wrestle with love, religion and coming of age.
5. THE MILL RIVER RECLUSE, by Darcie Chan. (Darcie Chan.) Only one man knows an abused widow, which revealed will change many lives in her small Vermont town. Eighth week on the list. 
6. SHOCK WAVE, by John Sandford. (Penguin Group.) Virgil Flowers investigates bombings directed against a superstore chain seeking to open a store in a Minnesota river town.
7. SNUFF, by Terry Pratchett. (HarperCollins Publishers.) In this Discworld fantasy, the commander of Ankh-Morpork’s City Watch solves a crime while on vacation in the country.
8. LETHAL, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central Publishing.) A woman and a man accused of murder evade the authorities as they search for her dead husband’s secrets.
9. CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?, by Sophie Kinsella. (Random House Publishing.) A woman reveals the most intimate details of her life to a man who turns out to be the C.E.O. of the company for which she works.
10. THE ABBEY, by Chris Culver. (Chris Culver.) Against orders, a former homicide detective begins an investigation into his niece's murder.   Eighth week on the list.
11. CROSS FIRE, by James Patterson. (Grand Central Publishing.) Detective Alex Cross’s wedding plans are put on hold when an elusive gunman begins picking off crooked Washington politicians.
12. A KILLING TIDE, by P. J. Alderman. (P. J. Alderman.) An Oregon fire chief becomes entangled with a woman whose brother is a suspect in a deadly shipboard arson blaze.
13. KILL ME IF YOU CAN, by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. (Little, Brown & Company.) A young man who finds a bag of diamonds is stalked by competing assassins.
14. THE NIGHT CIRCUS, by Erin Morgenstern. (Knopf Doubleday.) Two young rivals at a magical circus become collaborators as they fall in love.
15. SUICIDE RUN, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown & Company.) The Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch is on the scene in three never-before-collected stories.

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