There are 22 books listed as #1 best seller in New York Times Fiction Best Sellers 2012. Fifty Shades Of Grey written by E L James is listed as the #1 best seller for 28 weeks.
There are 294 books in the New York Times Fiction Best Sellers 2012 list. Fifty Shades Darker written by E L James is in this list for 42 weeks.
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#1 New York Times Best Sellers 2012
1. Fifty Shades Of Grey
Weeks listed as #1: 28
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by: E L James Release date: Jan 29, 2013 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy.
2. Reflected In You
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: Sylvia Day Release date: Oct 02, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Eva and Gideon, of “Bared to You,” continue to struggle to make their relationship work.
3. The Racketeer
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: John Grisham Release date: Oct 23, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
An imprisoned ex-lawyer schemes to exchange this information about who murdered a judge for his freedom.
4. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: Stieg Larsson Release date: Sep 16, 2008 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress 40 years earlier; the first volume in the Millennium trilogy.
5. Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: Jonathan Safran Foer Release date: Sep 03, 2013 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A precocious boy goes on a scavenger hunt through New York’s five boroughs in search of the lock that fits a key belonging to his father, who died on Sept. 11.
6. Gone Girl
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Gillian Flynn Release date: Jun 05, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?
7. A Wanted Man
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Lee Child Release date: Sep 11, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A carload of people involved in a conspiracy pick up a disheveled hitchhiker, Child’s vigilante hero Jack Reacher.
8. Winter Of The World
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Ken Follett Release date: Sep 18, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
n Book 2 of the Century trilogy, members of five interrelated families from five countries grapple with the tumultuous historical events of the years 1939-49.
9. The Casual Vacancy
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: J K Rowling Release date: Sep 27, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The sudden death of a parish councilman reveals bitter social divisions in an idyllic English town; a novel for adults by the creator of Harry Potter.
10. The Bone Bed
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Patricia Cornwell Release date: Oct 16, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A paleontologist’s disappearance in Canada turns out to be connected to crimes much closer to home for the chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta; the 20th Scarpetta book.
11. 11/22/63
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Stephen King Release date: Nov 08, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
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.
12. The Perfect Hope
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Nora Roberts Release date: Nov 06, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The final volume of the Inn BoonsBoro trilogy sees sparks fly between Ryder Montgomery and the innkeeper.
13. The Last Man
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Vince Flynn Release date: Nov 13, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp searches for a missing C.I.A. asset amid treachery in Afghanistan.
14. Notorious Nineteen
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Janet Evanovich Release date: Nov 20, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum joins with Joe Morelli to track down a con man who disappeared from a hospital; meanwhile, she takes a second job guarding Ranger.
15. The Black Box
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Michael Connelly Release date: Nov 26, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
In a case that spans 20 years, the Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a 1992 file, the killing of a young female photographer during the race riots.
16. Threat Vector
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Tom Clancy , Mark Greaney Release date: Dec 04, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
As China threatens to invade Taiwan, the covert intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. aids his father’s administration — but his agency is no longer secret.
17. The Help
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Kathryn Stockett Release date: Feb 10, 2009 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
18. Private: #1 Suspect
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: James Patterson , Maxine Paetro Release date: Jan 02, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
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.
19. Home Front
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Kristin Hannah Release date: Jan 31, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A woman’s husband and children are challenged when she is deployed to Iraq.
20. Kill Shot
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Vince Flynn Release date: Feb 07, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Mitch Rapp, a C.I.A. super-agent hunting down perpetrators of the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing, finds himself caught in a dangerous trap.
21. Private Games
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: James Patterson , Mark Sullivan Release date: Feb 13, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Peter Knight, a member of the Private investigative firm, pursues a murderer who is trying to destroy the London Olympics.
22. Celebrity In Death
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: J D Robb Release date: Feb 21, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Lt. Eve Dallas investigates when an actress drowns at the opening party for a movie based on one of her cases; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
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