NPR Bestsellers: Week Of February 16, 2012 : NPR

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Hardcover Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Death Comes to Pemberley	P. D. James	10
2	Kill Shot	Vince Flynn	1
3	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	17
4	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	21
5	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	51
6	Raylan	Elmore Leonard	4
7	State of Wonder	Ann Patchett	36
8	Believing the Lie	Elizabeth George	5
9	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest	Stieg Larsson	78
10	11/22/63	Stephen King	14
11	1Q84	Haruki Murakami	16
12	The Orphan Master's Son	Adam Johnson	5
13	The Marriage Plot	Jeffrey Eugenides	18
14	The Fear Index	Robert Harris	1
15	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	22

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Behind The Beautiful Forevers	Katherine Boo	1
2	Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	16
3	Quiet	Susan Cain	3
4	The End of Illness	David B. Agus, M.D. and Kristin Loberg	4
5	All There Is	Dave Isay	1
6	Thinking, Fast and Slow	Daniel Kahneman	12
7	Bringing Up Bebe	Pamela Druckerman	1
8	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	65
9	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	20
10	Once upon a Secret	Mimi Alford	1
11	In the Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	40
12	American Sniper	Chris Kyle, Scott Mcewen and Jim DeFelice	4
13	The Science of Yoga	William J. Broad and Bobby Clennell	1
14	Elizabeth the Queen	Sally Bedell Smith	5
15	Goodnight iPad	Ann Droyd	15

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	15
2	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Jonathan Safran Foer	7
3	The Help	Kathryn Stockett	45
4	The House at Tyneford	Natasha Solomons	6
5	A Visit From The Goon Squad	Jennifer Egan	47
6	Swamplandia!	Karen Russell	18
7	The Weird Sisters	Eleanor Brown	1
8	Cutting for Stone	Abraham Verghese	107
9	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy	John le Carre	7
10	A Discovery of Witches	Deborah Harkness	7
11	The Art Of Racing In The Rain	Garth Stein	138
12	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson	13
13	The Girl Who Played With Fire	Stieg Larsson	56
14	Dreams of Joy	Lisa See	1
15	Major Pettigrew's Last Stand	Helen Simonson	63

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Bossypants	Tina Fey	6
2	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	35
3	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	49
4	Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey	Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon	3
5	Blood, Bones & Butter	Gabrielle Hamilton	3
6	Heaven Is for Real	Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent	57
7	The Call of Sedona	Ilchi Lee	2
8	Cleopatra	Stacy Schiff	23
9	The Social Animal	David Brooks	6
10	The Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin	42
11	Empire of the Summer Moon	S.C. Gwynne	40
12	Just Kids	Patti Smith	67
13	The Hare With Amber Eyes	Edmund De Waal	25
14	The Warmth Of Other Suns	Isabel Wilkerson	15
15	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	33

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