National bestsellers for week ended Jan. 28

Top-selling books in the fiction, nonfiction and advice categories.

The New York Times
February 14, 2012 at 8:32PM

FICTION

1. TAKEN, by Robert Crais. (Putnam, $26.95.) It's Joe Pike to the rescue when Elvis Cole is seized by human traffickers.

2. PRIVATE: #1 SUSPECT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) When a former lover's body is found in his bed, Jack Morgan, a former Marine and the head of an investigative firm, is accused of murder.

3. DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY, by P.D. James. (Knopf, $25.95.) Six years after Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy marry, their comfortable life is shaken by a murder, as James re-creates the world of "Pride and Prejudice" with a mysterious twist.

4(x). THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) In the third volume of the Millennium trilogy, Swedish hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist confront a governmental adversary.

5. 11/22/63, by Stephen King. (Scribner, $35.) An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald, but first he must determine if Oswald is guilty.

6. BELIEVING THE LIE, by Elizabeth George. (Dutton, $28.95.) Inspector Thomas Lynley's investigation of a murder unearths the secrets of a wealthy clan.

7. RAYLAN, by Elmore Leonard. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) A U.S. marshal sent to Harlan County, Ky., confronts organ trafficking, strip mining and bank robberies.

8. THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $28.95.) Partners in a small law firm take on a big case after a fast-track burnout joins them.

9. DARKER AFTER MIDNIGHT, by Lara Adrian. (Delacorte, $24.) A group of Breed warriors called the Order battle against the malevolent vampire Dragos.

10. LOCKED ON, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney. (Putnam, $28.95.) Jack Ryan Jr. must stop an emerging threat from a Pakistani general.

NONFICTION

1. AMERITOPIA, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $26.99.) A talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation surveys the utopian movement and warns that Americans must choose between utopianism and liberty.

2. AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) A Navy SEAL who has the most career sniper kills in U.S. military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.

3(x). STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster, $35.) A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur.

4. QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Crown, $26.) Introverts -- one-third of the population -- are undervalued in American society.

5. KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt, $28.) The commentator looks at the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

6. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House, $27.) An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his bomber went down over the Pacific.

7. THROUGH MY EYES, by Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker. (HarperCollins, $26.99.) The Broncos quarterback chronicles his personal and professional course.

8. FAIRY TALE INTERRUPTED, by RoseMarie Terenzio. (Gallery Books, $25.) Recollections of John F. Kennedy Jr. from his former personal assistant and confidante.

9(x). THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.

10. STRATEGIC VISION, by Zbigniew Brzezinski. (Basic Books, $26.) President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser offers advice on how U.S. foreign policy should respond to the shift in gravity from West to East.

ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS

1. THE END OF ILLNESS, by David B. Agus with Kristin Loberg. (Free Press, $26.) With a blend of storytelling, research and ideas, a cancer doctor challenges perceptions about what "health" means.

2. TAKING PEOPLE WITH YOU, by David Novak. (Portfolio/Penguin, $25.95.) How to make big things happen by getting people on your side. (b)

3. DELICIOUSLY G-FREE, by Elisabeth Hasselbeck. (Ballantine, $30.) The author, a host on "The View," presents 100 recipes that don't have gluten.

4. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WEALTH, by Charles Richards. (McGraw-Hill, $26.) A clinical psychologist sees determining our relationship with money as an important step to financial success. (b)

5. STRATEGY FOR YOU, by Rich Horwath. (Greenleaf, $19.95.) A business strategist's five-step plan for building a bridge to the life you want. (b)

Rankings reflect sales for the week that ended Jan. 28 at thousands of venues nationwide. An (x) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.

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