New York Times Fiction Best Sellers 2012

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

by: E L James
Release date: Jan 29, 2013
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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

by: Sylvia Day
Release date: Oct 02, 2012
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Eva and Gideon, of “Bared to You,” continue to struggle to make their relationship work.

3. The Racketeer

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: John Grisham
Release date: Oct 23, 2012
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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

by: Stieg Larsson
Release date: Sep 16, 2008
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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

by: Jonathan Safran Foer
Release date: Sep 03, 2013
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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

by: Gillian Flynn
Release date: Jun 05, 2012
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A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?

7. A Wanted Man

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Lee Child
Release date: Sep 11, 2012
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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

by: Ken Follett
Release date: Sep 18, 2012
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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

by: J K Rowling
Release date: Sep 27, 2012
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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

by: Patricia Cornwell
Release date: Oct 16, 2012
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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

by: Stephen King
Release date: Nov 08, 2011
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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

by: Nora Roberts
Release date: Nov 06, 2012
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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

by: Vince Flynn
Release date: Nov 13, 2012
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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

by: Janet Evanovich
Release date: Nov 20, 2012
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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

by: Michael Connelly
Release date: Nov 26, 2012
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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

by: Tom Clancy Mark Greaney
Release date: Dec 04, 2012
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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

by: Kathryn Stockett
Release date: Feb 10, 2009
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A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

18. Private: #1 Suspect

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson Maxine Paetro
Release date: Jan 02, 2012
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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

by: Kristin Hannah
Release date: Jan 31, 2012
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A woman’s husband and children are challenged when she is deployed to Iraq.

20. Kill Shot

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Vince Flynn
Release date: Feb 07, 2012
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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

by: James Patterson Mark Sullivan
Release date: Feb 13, 2012
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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

by: J D Robb
Release date: Feb 21, 2012
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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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