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Monday, January 16, 2012

Publishers Weekly bestsellers January 2012

Intriguingly . . .

While the fiction list is replete with the same tired old names, several of the "collaborators" in the bestseller fiction industry have at last been given space on the title page.

Hardcover Fiction
1. "Private: #1 Suspect" by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown,$27.99) -
2. "Love in a Nutshell" by Janet Evanovich & Dorien Kelly (St. Martin's, $27.99) -
3. "Death Comes to Pemberley" by P.D. James (Knopf, $25.95) 2
4. "77 Shadow Street" by Dean Koontz (Bantam, $28) 1
5. "11/22/63" by Stephen King (Scribner, $35) 3
6. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson (Knopf, $27.95) 10
7. "Locked On" by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney (Putnam, $28.95) 4
8. "The Litigators" by John Grisham (Doubleday, $28.95) 6
9. "The Best of Me" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, $25.99) 7
10. "Kill Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $28.99) 5
Hardcover nonfiction
1. "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $35) 1
2. "American Sniper" by Chris Kyle, with Scott McEwen & Jim DeFelice (Morrow, $26.99) -
3. "Real Marriage" by Mark & Grace Driscoll (Thomas Nelson, $22.99) -
4. "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard (Holt, $28) 2
5. "Taking People with You" by David Novak (Portfolio, $25.95) -
6. "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30) 7
7. "The 17 Day Diet" by Dr. Mike Moreno (Free Press, $25) 4
8. "The Dash Diet Action Plan" by Marla Heller (Grand Central, $22.99) -
9. "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House, $27) 3
10. "Catherine the Great" by Robert K. Massie (Random House, $35) 10

It will also be interesting to see when Publishers Weekly updates its list to include digital books.  This year?  Next year?  Never?

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