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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

—William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist noted for literary criticism

 

Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers (Book Sense)

Freedom 
by Jonathan Franzen (FSG, ISBN: 9780374158460); Weeks on List: 1 "The new novel by the National Book Award winning author of The Corrections is a September Indie Next List Great Read." 
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest 
by Stieg Larsson (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307269997); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 15 "The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy." 
The Help 
by Kathryn Stockett (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, ISBN: 9780399155345); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: * "This wonderful debut set in the rural South of the 1960s is a February 2009 Indie Next List Great Read." 
Star Island 
by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307272584); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 6 "Hiaasen's hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane." 
Three Stations 
by Martin Cruz Smith (S&S, ISBN: 9780743276740); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 3 "The seventh Arkady Renko novel by the bestselling author of Stalin's Ghost." 
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet 
by David Mitchell (Random House, ISBN: 9781400065455); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 10 "The riveting new novel by the author of Cloud Atlas is a July Indie Next List Great Read." 
Super Sad True Love Story 
by Gary Shteyngart (Random House, ISBN: 9781400066407); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 6 "The new satiric novel by the author of Absurdistan is an August Indie Next List Great Read." 
The Red Queen 
by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, ISBN: 9781416563723); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 5 "The new Cousins' War novel by the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl." 
The Cookbook Collector 
by Allegra Goodman (Dial, ISBN: 9780385340854); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 8 "The wonderful new novel by the author of Intuition is a July Indie Next List Great Read." 
The Postcard Killers 
by James Patterson, Liza Marklund (Little Brown, ISBN: 9780316089517); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 3 "NYPD detective Jacob Kanon investigates the murders of couples vacationing in Europe." 
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise 
by Julia Stuart (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385533287); Last week: 14; Weeks on List: 4 "Stuart's charming second novel is an August Indie Next List Great Read." 
The Way of Kings 
by Brandon Sanderson (Tor, ISBN: 9780765326355); Weeks on List: 1 "Part one of a new epic fantasy series by the author of the Mistborn trilogy." 
Body Work 
by Sara Paretsky (Putnam, ISBN: 9780399156748); Weeks on List: 1 "The new V.I.Warshawski novel from the bestselling author of Hardball." 
The Rembrandt Affair 
by Daniel Silva (Putnam, ISBN: 9780399156588); Last week: 10; Weeks on List: 7 "Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in Silva's latest thriller." 
I Curse the River of Time 
by Per Petterson (Graywolf, ISBN: 9781555975562); Last week: 12; Weeks on List: 4 "The latest novel by the author of Out Stealing Horses is an August Indie Next List Great Read."