New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers 2009

There are 37 books listed as #1 best seller in New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers 2009. The Lost Symbol written by Dan Brown is listed as the #1 best seller for 7 weeks.

There are 263 books in the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers 2009 list. The Help written by Kathryn Stockett is in this list for 40 weeks.

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#1 New York Times Best Sellers 2009

1. The Lost Symbol

Weeks listed as #1: 7

by: Dan Brown
Release date: Jan 01, 2010
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The Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon among the Masons.

2. The Associate

Weeks listed as #1: 4

by: John Grisham
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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An idealistic law-school graduate is forced to take a job at a large, brutalizing law firm.

3. Handle With Care

Weeks listed as #1: 3

by: Jodi Picoult
Release date: Mar 03, 2009
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A woman whose daughter has a dangerous birth defect must decide whether to sue her obstetrician, an old friend.

4. Plum Spooky

Weeks listed as #1: 3

by: Janet Evanovich
Release date: Jan 06, 2009
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The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum hunts an evil genius and his sidekick, who are hiding in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens.

5. South Of Broad

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: Pat Conroy
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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An unlikely group’s friendship from the ’60s to the ’80s, and from South Carolina to San Francisco; by the author of “The Prince of Tides.”

6. Cross Fire

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: James Patterson
Release date: Nov 15, 2010
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Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets.

7. Promises In Death

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: J D Robb
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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Lt. Eve Dallas investigates a colleague’s murder; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.

8. True Detectives

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Jonathan Kellerman
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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In the 24th Alex Delaware novel, the interracial half-brothers from “Bones” investigate a young woman’s death.

9. Long Lost

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Harlan Coben
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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As Myron Bolitar helps an ex-lover who has become a suspect in her husband’s death, they search for her daughter.

10. Turn Coat

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Jim Butcher
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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Book 11 of the Dresden Files series about a wizard detective in Chicago.

11. Just Take My Heart

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Mary Higgins Clark
Release date: Oct 31, 2011
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A detective who has had a heart transplant discovers that her life is at risk when she tries a murder case.

12. First Family

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: David Baldacci
Release date: Apr 21, 2009
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Former Secret Service agents, now P.I.’s, search for a child abducted from a party at Camp David.

13. The 8Th Confession

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson Maxine Paetro
Release date: Apr 27, 2009
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Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women”s Murder Club investigate a pair of killings.

14. Dead And Gone

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Charlaine Harris
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.

15. Wicked Prey

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: John S ford
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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The Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport deals with mayhem occasioned by the Republican convention.

16. Gone Tomorrow

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Lee Child
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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Jack Reacher discovers a conspiracy dating back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

17. The Scarecrow

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Michael Connelly
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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A Los Angeles Times reporter tracks a devious killer.

18. Skin Trade

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Laurell K Hamilton
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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Investigating some killings in Las Vegas, the vampire hunter Anita Blake must contend with the power of the weretigers.

19. Relentless

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Dean Koontz
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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A writer is pursued by a sociopathic critic.

20. Knockout

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Catherine Coulter
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock — F.B.I. agents as well as husband and wife — try to protect a 7-year-old with psychic powers from her exploitive criminal uncle.

21. Finger Lickin’ Fifteen

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Janet Evanovich
Release date: Jun 23, 2009
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The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum hunts a celebrity chef’s killer.

22. Swimsuit

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson Maxine Paetro
Release date: Jun 29, 2009
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A former cop, now a reporter for The Los Angeles Times, investigates the disappearance of a supermodel from a Hawaii hotel.

23. Black Hills

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Nora Roberts
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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A South Dakota wildlife biologist and an ex-cop, childhood sweethearts, reunite to pursue a serial killer.

24. Best Friends Forever

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Jennifer Weiner
Release date: Jul 14, 2009
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Childhood friends, estranged in high school, reunite years later when the popular one needs the mousy one’s help.

25. The Defector

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Daniel Silva
Release date: Jan 01, 2010
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When a Russian defector who once saved his life disappears, Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, attempts to rescue him.

26. Bad Moon Rising

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Release date: Aug 04, 2009
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Book 18 of the Dark-Hunter paranormal series.

27. Alex Cross’S ‘Trial’

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson Richard DiLallo
Release date: Aug 24, 2009
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The detective Alex Cross writes a novel about his great-uncle, who fought the Klan.

28. Dark Slayer

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Christine Feehan
Release date: Sep 01, 2009
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A slayer who travels with a wolf pack frees a Dragon­seeker from prison and falls in love with him; a Carpathian novel.

29. The Last Song

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Nicholas Sparks
Release date: Sep 08, 2009
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A 17-year-old girl spends the summer with her divorced father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love.

30. The Gathering Storm

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Robert Jordan Br on S erson
Release date: Oct 27, 2009
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Book 12 of the Wheel of Time fantasy series.

31. Ford County

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: John Grisham
Release date: Jan 01, 2009
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Stories set in rural Mississippi.

32. U Is For Undertow

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Sue Grafton
Release date: Mar 01, 2016
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Kinsey Millhone investigates the case of a 4-year-old girl who disappeared 21 years earlier.

33. The Girl Who Played With Fire

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Stieg Larsson
Release date: Jul 28, 2009
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In the second volume of the Millennium trilogy, a Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.

34. Under The Dome, Part 1

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Stephen King
Release date: Dec 24, 2009
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The town of Chester’s Mill, Me., is suddenly and inexplicably trapped by an invisible force field. Sealed off from the rest of the world, the townspeople fall prey to a devious politician.

35. The Christmas Sweater

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Glenn Beck Kevin Balfe Jason Wright
Release date: Nov 11, 2008
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A boy learns from his disappointment with his mother’s gift.

36. Scarpetta

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Patricia Cornwell
Release date: Jan 01, 2008
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The forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta takes an assignment in New York City.

37. Black Ops

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: W E B Griffin
Release date: Jan 01, 2008
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An Army officer and special presidential agent is targeted for death — but by whom?

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