New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers 2012

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

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?

2. The Racketeer

Weeks listed as #1: 4

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.

3. The Casual Vacancy

Weeks listed as #1: 3

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.

4. Calico Joe

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: John Grisham
Release date: Apr 10, 2012
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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

by: John S ford
Release date: May 15, 2012
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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

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.

7. Private: #1 Suspect

Weeks listed as #1: 2

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.

8. Lone Wolf

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: Jodi Picoult
Release date: Feb 28, 2012
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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

by: Clive Cussler Justin Scott
Release date: Mar 06, 2012
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Isaac Bell tries to save scientists from German spies.

10. Stay Close

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Harlan Coben
Release date: Mar 20, 2012
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A disappearance in Atlantic City brings together three frustrated people whose lives were once connected.

11. Lover Reborn

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: J R Ward
Release date: Mar 27, 2012
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Book 10 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

12. The Lost Years

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Mary Higgins Clark
Release date: Apr 03, 2012
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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

by: David Baldacci
Release date: Apr 17, 2012
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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

by: Stephen King
Release date: Apr 24, 2012
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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

by: Charlaine Harris
Release date: May 01, 2012
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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

by: James Patterson Maxine Paetro
Release date: May 07, 2012
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Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate a possible serial killer.

17. The Storm

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Clive Cussler Graham Brown
Release date: May 29, 2012
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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

by: Laurell K Hamilton
Release date: Jun 05, 2012
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Investigating a teenager’s abduction, Anita Blake, vampire hunter, encounters a group of recently turned vampires.

19. Wicked Business

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Janet Evanovich
Release date: Jun 19, 2012
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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

by: Deborah Harkness
Release date: Jul 10, 2012
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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

by: Daniel Silva
Release date: Jul 17, 2012
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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

by: Mitch Albom
Release date: Sep 04, 2012
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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

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.

24. 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.

25. The Panther

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Nelson DeMille
Release date: Oct 16, 2012
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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

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.

27. 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.

28. Cold Days

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Jim Butcher
Release date: Nov 27, 2012
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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

by: Dean Koontz
Release date: Dec 27, 2011
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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

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.

31. Believing The Lie

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Elizabeth George
Release date: Jan 10, 2012
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Inspector Thomas Lynley’s investigation of a murder unearths the secrets of a wealthy clan.

32. Taken

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Robert Crais
Release date: Jan 24, 2012
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It’s Joe Pike to the rescue when Elvis Cole is seized by human traffickers.

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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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