There are 36 books listed as #1 best seller in New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers 2012. Gone Girl written by Gillian Flynn is listed as the #1 best seller for 8 weeks.
There are 270 books in the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers 2012 list. A Dance With Dragons written by George R R Martin is in this list for 48 weeks.
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#1 New York Times Best Sellers 2012
1. Gone Girl
Weeks listed as #1: 8
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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?
2. The Racketeer
Weeks listed as #1: 4
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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.
3. The Casual Vacancy
Weeks listed as #1: 3
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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.
4. Calico Joe
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: John Grisham Release date: Apr 10, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A pitcher beans a promising rookie, ending both careers; years later, the pitcher’s son brings them together.
5. Stolen Prey
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: John S, ford Release date: May 15, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
When a Minnesota family is murdered, the investigator Lucas Davenport believes a Mexican drug gang is involved.
6. 11/22/63
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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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.
7. Private: #1 Suspect
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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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.
8. Lone Wolf
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: Jodi Picoult Release date: Feb 28, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The children of a man who studies wolves must make difficult decisions when he is seriously injured in an accident.
9. The Thief
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Clive Cussler , Justin Scott Release date: Mar 06, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Isaac Bell tries to save scientists from German spies.
10. Stay Close
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Harlan Coben Release date: Mar 20, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A disappearance in Atlantic City brings together three frustrated people whose lives were once connected.
11. Lover Reborn
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: J R Ward Release date: Mar 27, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Book 10 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
12. The Lost Years
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Mary Higgins Clark Release date: Apr 03, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
When a biblical scholar who made an amazing discovery is murdered, his daughter hunts for the killer.
13. The Innocent
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: David Baldacci Release date: Apr 17, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A hitman who has become a target of the government rescues a teenage girl whose parents have been murdered and who may be at the center of a dangerous conspiracy.
14. The Wind Through The Keyhole
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Stephen King Release date: Apr 24, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A new entry in the Dark Tower epic western-fantasy series; this novel, King says, is “Dark Tower 4.5.”
15. Deadlocked
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Charlaine Harris Release date: May 01, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse investigates a murder that has more to do with her than she imagines.
16. 11Th Hour
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: James Patterson , Maxine Paetro Release date: May 07, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate a possible serial killer.
17. The Storm
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Clive Cussler , Graham Brown Release date: May 29, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
In the 10th NUMA Files novel, Kurt Austin and his team battle a plan to change the world’s weather.
18. Kiss The Dead
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Laurell K Hamilton Release date: Jun 05, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Investigating a teenager’s abduction, Anita Blake, vampire hunter, encounters a group of recently turned vampires.
19. Wicked Business
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Janet Evanovich Release date: Jun 19, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The Salem, Mass., pastry chef Lizzy Tucker and her partner, Diesel, take up a murdered Harvard professor’s quest for a powerful ancient relic
20. Shadow Of Night
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Deborah Harkness Release date: Jul 10, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
An Oxford scholar/witch and a vampire geneticist pursue history, secrets and each other in Elizabethan London; Book 2 of the All Souls trilogy.
21. The Fallen Angel
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Daniel Silva Release date: Jul 17, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and spy for the Israeli secret service, discovers a global criminal enterprise behind a murder at the Vatican.
22. The Time Keeper
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Mitch Albom Release date: Sep 04, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A fable about the inventor of the world’s first clock, who returns to our world after centuries of banishment; from the author of “Tuesdays With Morrie.”
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. The Panther
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Nelson DeMille Release date: Oct 16, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The anti-terrorist task force agent John Corey and his wife, an F.B.I. agent, pursue a high-ranking Qaeda operative in Yemen — who is out to avenge the death of a Libyan terrorist killed by Corey.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Cold Days
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Jim Butcher Release date: Nov 27, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Harry Dresden lives, but he’s no longer Chicago’s professional wizard. Now he’s the Winter Knight, Queen Mab’s assassin, and she wants her newest minion to pull off the impossible: kill an immortal.
29. 77 Shadow Street
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Dean Koontz Release date: Dec 27, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A 19th-century tycoon’s mansion turned into luxury apartments remains in the grip of evil forces.
30. 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.
31. Believing The Lie
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Elizabeth George Release date: Jan 10, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Inspector Thomas Lynley’s investigation of a murder unearths the secrets of a wealthy clan.
32. Taken
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Robert Crais Release date: Jan 24, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
It’s Joe Pike to the rescue when Elvis Cole is seized by human traffickers.
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. 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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