Best-Selling Books | Week Ended July 25

With data from Nielsen BookScan

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Hardcover Fiction
TITLE
AUTHOR / PUBLISHER
THIS WEEKLAST WEEK
The Rembrandt Affair1New
Daniel Silva/Putnam
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest21
Stieg Larsson/Knopf
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner33
Stephenie Meyer/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Fly Away Home45
Jennifer Weiner/Atria Books
The Help56
Kathryn Stockett/Amy Einhorn Books
Private64
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro/Little, Brown
The Search72
Nora Roberts/Putnam
Sizzling Sixteen87
Janet Evanovich/St. Martin's Press
Linger911
Maggie Stiefvater/Scholastic
Breaking Dawn108
Stephenie Meyer/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
The Kane Chronicles, Book 1: The Red Pyramid1112
Rick Riordan/Hyperion Books
The Overton Window129
Glenn Beck/Threshold Editions
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5: The Last Olympian1315
Rick Riordan/Hyperion Books
Catching Fire14
Suzanne Collins/Scholastic
The Glass Rainbow1510
James Lee Burke/Simon & Schuster
Hardcover Nonfiction
TITLE
AUTHOR / PUBLISHER
THIS WEEKLAST WEEK
Women, Food and God11
Geneen Roth/Scribner
The Obama Diaries22
Laura Ingraham/Threshold Editions
S__ My Dad Says33
Justin Halpern/It Books
Coming Back Stronger45
Drew Brees with Chris Fabry/Tyndale House Publishers
StrengthsFinder 2.054
Tom Rath/Gallup Press
Doing Both613
Inder Sidhu/FT Press
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang76
Chelsea Handler/Grand Central Publishing
The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary89
Jeff Kinney/Abrams
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Do-It-Yourself Book910
Jeff Kinney/Abrams
Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary10
Simon Beecroft/DK Publishing
Medium Raw118
Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Sliding Into Home12
Kendra Wilkinson/Gallery Press
Delivering Happiness137
Tony Hsieh/Business Plus
In a Heartbeat1411
Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy with Sally Jenkins/Henry Holt & Co.
The Big Short1512
Michael Lewis/W.W. Norton & Co.
Hardcover Business
TITLE
AUTHOR / PUBLISHER
THIS WEEKLAST WEEK
StrengthsFinder 2.011
Tom Rath/Gallup Press
Doing Both24
Inder Sidhu/FT Press
Delivering Happiness32
Tony Hsieh/Business Plus
The Big Short43
Michael Lewis/W.W. Norton & Co.
The Total Money Makeover55
Dave Ramsey/Thomas Nelson Publishers
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team68
Patrick Lencioni/Jossey-Bass
Good to Great79
Jim Collins/HarperBusiness
Switch86
Chip Heath, Dan Heath/Broadway Business
Who Moved My Cheese?97
Spencer Johnson/Penguin Putnam
Drive1011
Daniel H. Pink/Riverhead Hardcover
The 4-Hour Workweek1110
Timothy Ferriss/Crown Publishing Group
Strengths-Based Leadership1214
Tom Rath, Barry Conchie/Gallup Press
Now, Discover Your Strengths1313
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton/Free Press
Aftershock14
David Wiedemer, Robert A. Wiedemer, Cindy Spitzer/John Wiley & Sons
The Energy Bus15
Jon Gordon/John Wiley & Sons
This Week's Spotlight: Hardcover Mystery/Detective
TITLE
AUTHOR / PUBLISHER
1. Sizzling Sixteen
Janet Evanovich/St. Martin's Press
2. The Glass Rainbow
James Lee Burke/Simon & Schuster
3. Live to Tell
Lisa Gardner/Bantam Books
4. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Objective
Eric Van Lustbader/Grand Central Publishing
5. The Burning Wire
Jeffery Deaver/Simon & Schuster
6. Spies of the Balkans
Alan Furth/Random House
7. This Body of Death
Elizabeth George/Harper
8. Pray for Silence
Linda Castillo/Minotaur Books
9. The Double Comfort Safari Club
Alexander McCall Smith/Pantheon Books
10. Stork Raving Mad
Donna Andrews/Minotaur Books
11. Wanting Sheila Dead
Jane Haddam/Minotaur Books
12. Mr. Monk Is Cleaned Out
Lee Goldberg/Obsidian Mysteries
13. The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree
Susan Wittig Albert/Berkley Publishing Group
14. The Scent of Rain and Lightning
Nancy Pickard/Ballantine Books
15. Haunt Me Still
Jennifer Lee Carrell/Dutton Books

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