1. The Reversal: A Novel - by Michael Connelly

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/05/2010
ISBN-13: 9780316069489
ISBN-10: 0316069485

The defense lawyer Mickey Haller and the L.A.P.D. detective Harry Bosch join forces against a child-killer.

2. Fall of Giants - by Ken Follett

Publisher: Dutton
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/28/2010
ISBN-13: 9780525951650
ISBN-10: 0525951652

Five interrelated families from five countries are caught in the upheavals of World War I and the Russian Revolution.

3. Freedom - by Jonathan Franzen

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/31/2010
ISBN-13: 9780374158460
ISBN-10: 0374158460

A family of Midwestern liberals during the Bush years; by the author of The Corrections.

4. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - by Stieg Larsson; translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/25/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307269997
ISBN-10: 030726999X

The 3rd volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.

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5. Safe Haven - by Nicholas Sparks

Publisher: Grand Central
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/14/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446547598
ISBN-10: 044654759X

The arrival of a mysterious young woman in a small North Carolina town raises questions about her past.

6. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary - by David Sedaris; illustrated by Ian Falconer

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/28/2010
ISBN-13: 9780316038393
ISBN-10: 0316038393

The humorist looks at human nature through stories with animals as characters.

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7. Don't Blink: A Novel - by James Patterson and Howard Roughan

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/27/2010
ISBN-13: 9780316036238
ISBN-10: 0316036234

A reporter finds himself involved in a war between the Italian mob and the Russian mafia.

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8. Painted Ladies - by Robert B. Parker

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/05/2010
ISBN-13: 9780399156854
ISBN-10: 0399156852

Spenser's latest assignment is to provide protection during the ransoming of a stolen painting.

9. Promise Me - by Richard Paul Evans

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/05/2010
ISBN-13: 9781439150030
ISBN-10: 1439150036

On Christmas Day, a woman with family problems meets a handsome, mysterious stranger.

10. The Help - by Kathryn Stockett

Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/10/2009
ISBN-13: 9780399155345
ISBN-10: 0399155341

A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

11. Bad Blood - by John Sandford

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/21/2010
ISBN-13: 9780399156908
ISBN-10: 0399156909

Virgil Flowers is summoned to investigate a monstrous multigenerational conspiracy.

12. Legacy: A Novel - by Danielle Steel

Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/28/2010
ISBN-13: 9780385343138
ISBN-10: 0385343132

A writer's stunning family discovery leads to Paris, the French aristocracy, and a mysterious Sioux ancestor.

13. Gauntlgrym - by R.A. Salvatore

Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/05/2010
ISBN-13: 9780786955008
ISBN-10: 0786955007

A pair of drow and dwarf treasure seekers set off a catastrophe that could spell disaster for the city of Neverwinter.

14. Getting to Happy - by Terry McMillan

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/07/2010
ISBN-13: 9780670022045
ISBN-10: 0670022047

Revisiting the four women from Waiting to Exhale.

15. Room: A Novel - by Emma Donoghue

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/13/2010
ISBN-13: 9780316098335
ISBN-10: 0316098337

A mother's prison is her young son's entire world.

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These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the October 24 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending October 9, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.