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‘Gone Girl’ jumps to top of US bestsellers list

July 06, 2012

NEW YORK, July 6 — “Gone Girl” shot to the top of Publishers Weekly’s bestseller list yesterday, bumping “Wicked Business” out of the No. 1 spot.

The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

Hardcover Fiction

1. “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn 

2. “Wicked Business” by Janet Evanovich

3. “Bloodline: A Sigma Force Novel” by James Rollins (William Morrow, 27.99) 

4. “Summerland” by Elin Hilderbrand (Reagan Arthur, US$26.99)

5. “Calico Joe” by John Grisham (Doubleday, US$24.95)

 6. “The Age of Miracles” by Karen Thompson Walker (Random House, US$26.00)

7. “The Storm” by Clive Cussler (Putnam, US$27.95)

8. “Mission to Paris” by Alan Furst (Random House, US$27.00)

 9. “Porch Lights” by Dorothea Benton Frank    (William Morrow, US$25.99)

 10. “11th Hour” by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, US$27.99)       

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. “Cowards” by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions, US$28.00)

 2. “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf, US$25.95)

3. “The Amateur” by Edward Klein (Regnery, US$27.95) 

4. “Killing Lincoln” by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard (Holt, US$28)

5. “The Skinny Rules” by Bob Harper (Ballantine, US$26.00)

6. “An American Son” by Marco Rubio (Sentinel, US$26.95)           

7. “It Worked for Me” by Colin Powell (Harper, US$27.99)    

8. “Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations” by Daniel Denison (Jossey-Bass, US$34.95)

9. “What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me” by Rielle Hunter (Benbella, US$24.95)  

10. “The Great Destroyer” by David Limbaugh (Regnery, US$29.95) — Reuters

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