New York Times Bestseller List - Sales Period of January 8-14, 2012

Fiction

1. Believing The Lie, by Elizabeth George. (Dutton, $28.95.)  Inspector Thomas Lynley's investigation of a murder unearths the secrets of a wealthy clan. 
   
2. Private: #1 Suspect, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.)  When a former lover's dead body is found in his bed, Jack Morgan, a former Marine and the head of an investigative firm, is accused of murder.
3. Gideon's Corpse, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. (Grand Central, $26.99.)  Gideon Crew works to avoid a threatened terrorist attack on an American city. 
4. Death Comes To Pemberly, 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 recreates the world of "Pride and Prejudice" with a mysterious twist.  
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. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.)  The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.
7. Copper Beach, by Jayne Ann Krentz. (Putnam, $25.95.)  Amy Radwell, whose psychic talent enables her to understand the paranormal secrets in rare books, becomes the target of a blackmailer.  The first book in a new series about rare books and psychic codes. 
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. Locked On, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney. (Putnam, $28.95.)  Jack Ryan Jr. must stop an emerging threat from a Pakistani general.
10. Love In A Nutshell, by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly. (St. Martin's, $27.99.)  A former magazine editor attempts to turn her parents' summer house into a bed-and-breakfast.
11. 77 Shadow Street, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $28.)  A 19th century tycoon's mansion has been turned into luxury apartments, but it remains in the grip of evil forces.
    
12. The Best of Me, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $25.99.) Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.
13. Kill Alex Cross, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown, $28.99.)  Alex Cross investigates when the president's children are kidnapped, but the F.B.I. and C.I.A. stand in his way.

Nonfiction

1. Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster, $35.)  A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur, based on 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years.
   
2. Killing Lincoln, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt, $28.)  The commentator looks at the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 
3. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House, $27.)  An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
4. Greedy Bastards, by Dylan Ratigan. (Simon & Schuster, $25.)  The host of MSNBC's "Dylan Ratigan Show" proposes solutions to problems of banking, education, health care and dependence on foreign oil.
   
5. Catherine the Great, by Robert K. Massie, (Random House, $35.)  The author of "Nicholas and Alexandra" provides a sweeping narrative of the life of the minor 18th century German princess who, thanks to ambition, luck, wiles and a strategic marriage, became Empress of All the Russias.
6. Heaven is For Real, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson, $21.98.)  A boy's encounter with Jesus ad the angels during an emergency appendectomy.
7. In The Garden Of Beasts, by Erik Larson. (Crown, $26.)  William E. Dodd, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, and his daughter, Martha, in 1930's Berlin.
8. Jack Kennedy, by Chris Matthews. (Simon & Schuster, $27.50.)  An admiring portrait.