National bestsellers

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

The New York Times
May 24, 2011 at 6:51PM

FICTION

1. DEAD RECKONING, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $27.95.) Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse seeks the culprit in a firebombing.

2. 10TH ANNIVERSARY, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club race to find a missing baby.

3. THE SIXTH MAN, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.) The lawyer for an alleged serial killer is murdered, and two former Secret Service agents are on the case.

4. SIXKILL, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $26.95.) In the final Spenser novel, a woman dies in an actor's hotel room.

5. THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES, by Jean M. Auel. (Crown, $30.) The latest volume in a series that began with "The Clan of the Cave Bear," set during the Ice Age.

6. I'LL WALK ALONE, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.99.) A woman haunted by the disappearance of her young son discovers that someone has stolen her identity.

7. THE FIFTH WITNESS, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Defense lawyer Mickey Haller represents a woman facing home foreclosure and who is accused of killing a banker.

8. CHASING FIRE, by Nora Roberts. (Putnam, $27.95.) A smoke jumper faces a new season of firefighting in Montana after the loss of her partner.

9. CALEB'S CROSSING, by Geraldine Brooks. (Viking, $26.95.) A Puritan missionary's daughter forms a bond with a scholarly Indian.

10. A TURN IN THE ROAD, by Debbie Macomber. (Mira, $24.95.) A middle-aged woman takes a cross-country road trip with her daughter and former mother-in-law.

11(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.

NONFICTION

1. BOSSYPANTS, by Tina Fey. (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown, $26.99.) A memoir from the former "Saturday Night Live" star and creator of "30 Rock."

2. DOES THE NOISE IN MY HEAD BOTHER YOU?, by Steven Tyler with David Dalton. (Ecco, $27.99.) The singer and showman recounts the meteoric rise, fall and rise of Aerosmith over the past three decades.

3. STORIES I ONLY TELL MY FRIENDS, by Rob Lowe. (Holt, $26.) The actor charts his professional path, from teen idol to "The West Wing."

4. IF YOU ASK ME, by Betty White. (Putnam, $25.95.) The seven-time Emmy winner reflects on her seven-decade career in Hollywood.

5. SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy. (Voice/Hyperion, $24.99.) Poems that inspired the former First Daughter.

6. FROM THIS MOMENT ON, by Shania Twain. (Atria, $26.99.) The country singer/songwriter writes of her hardscrabble origins and rise to fame.

7. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House, $27.) An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

8. A SINGULAR WOMAN, by Janny Scott. (Riverhead, $26.95.) A biography of Barack Obama's late mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, an anthropologist and development consultant.

9(x). THE HEART AND THE FIST, by Eric Greitens. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27.) A Navy SEAL describes his military deployments and his larger vision of public service.

10. MY LUCKY LIFE IN AND OUT OF SHOW BUSINESS, by Dick Van Dyke. (Crown Archetype, $25.) A memoir by the performer, who calls himself "a simple song-and-dance man."

ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS

1. THE DUKAN DIET, by Pierre Dukan. (Crown Archetype, $26.) A program that rejects calorie counting and assigns protein a major role.

2. THE 17 DAY DIET, by Mike Moreno. (Free Press, $25.) Four cycles to help you burn fat every day. (b)

3. 20 YEARS YOUNGER, by Bob Greene with Howard Lancer, Ronald L. Kotler and Diane L. McKay. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Feeling better as you age by addressing exercise, diet, sleep and skin care.

4. GUY FIERI FOOD, by Guy Fieri. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $29.99.) Stories and recipes showing how the Food Network star got where he is today.

5. GET RICH CLICK!, by Marc Ostrofsky. (Razor, $19.95.) An Internet entrepreneur's strategies for earning money online. (b)

Rankings reflect sales for the week that ended May 7 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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