There are 255 books in the New York Times Mass Market Paperback Fiction Best Sellers 2012 list. Here are the 30 books ranked from 1 to 30.
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1. A Game Of Thrones
Weeks on the list: 48
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by: George RR Martin Release date: Jan 01, 2003 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering.
2. A Storm Of Swords
Weeks on the list: 40
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by: George RR Martin Release date: Mar 04, 2003 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The third book in the Song of Ice and Fire series. Read by Roy Dotrice. 47 hours, 34 minutes unabridged.
3. A Clash Of Kings
Weeks on the list: 39
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by: George RR Martin Release date: Jan 01, 2003 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
From the citadel of Dragonstone to the shores of Winterfell, factions vie for control of a divided land: Book 2 of “A Song of Ice and Fire.”
4. A Feast For Crows
Weeks on the list: 34
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by: George RR Martin Release date: Nov 08, 2005 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The fourth book in the Song of Ice and Fire series. Read by Roy Dotrice. 33 hours, 51 minutes unabridged.
5. The Lucky One
Weeks on the list: 24
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by: Nicholas Sparks Release date: Sep 30, 2008 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A Marine returning home sets out to track down the woman whose photo he found in Iraq.
6. The Litigators
Weeks on the list: 22
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by: John Grisham Release date: Oct 25, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Partners in a small law firm take on a big case after a fast-track burnout joins them.
7. The Girl Who Played With Fire
Weeks on the list: 21
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by: Stieg Larsson Release date: Jul 28, 2009 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
In the second volume of the Millennium trilogy, a Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.
8. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Weeks on the list: 19
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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.
9. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’S Nest
Weeks on the list: 17
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by: Stieg Larsson Release date: Jan 01, 2010 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.
10. Ender’s Game
Weeks on the list: 16
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by: Orson Scott Card Release date: Apr 01, 2010 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers.
11. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Weeks on the list: 15
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by: Seth Grahame-Smith Release date: Apr 01, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A journal reveals Lincoln’s fight against the undead; by the author of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.”
12. Fall Of Giants
Weeks on the list: 15
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by: Ken Follett Release date: Aug 30, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Five interrelated families from five countries are caught in the upheavals of World War I and the Russian Revolution.
13. Safe Haven
Weeks on the list: 14
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by: Nicholas Sparks Release date: Aug 02, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A young woman, while putting down roots in a small North Carolina town, is haunted by a dark secret from her past.
14. Zero Day
Weeks on the list: 11
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by: David Baldacci Release date: Oct 31, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A military investigator uncovers a conspiracy.
15. Explosive Eighteen
Weeks on the list: 11
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by: Janet Evanovich Release date: Nov 22, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
After a disastrous vacation in Hawaii, Stephanie Plum becomes the target of an international killer.
16. Don’T Blink
Weeks on the list: 10
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by: James Patterson , Howard Roughan Release date: Sep 27, 2010 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
After a gruesome murder in a New York steak house, a reporter finds himself involved in a war between the Italian mob and the Russian mafia.
17. Happy Birthday
Weeks on the list: 9
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by: Danielle Steel Release date: Jul 19, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A woman, her daughter and a former football player arrive at their own crucial turning points on the same day.
18. Lethal
Weeks on the list: 9
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by: S, ra Brown Release date: Sep 20, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A woman, her daughter and a man accused of murder evade the authorities as they search for her dead husband’s secrets.
19. Kill Shot
Weeks on the list: 9
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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.
20. I’Ll Walk Alone
Weeks on the list: 8
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by: Mary Higgins Clark Release date: Apr 05, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A woman haunted by the disappearance of her young son discovers that someone has stolen her identity.
21. 44 Charles Street
Weeks on the list: 8
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by: Danielle Steel Release date: Apr 05, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The owner of a Greenwich Village town house takes in boarders and bonds with her tenants.
22. Chasing Fire
Weeks on the list: 8
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by: Nora Roberts Release date: Apr 12, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A smoke jumper faces a new season of firefighting in Montana after the loss of her partner.
23. Against All Enemies
Weeks on the list: 8
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by: Tom Clancy , Peter Telep Find in Library Check on Amazon |
Maxwell Moore pursues the terrorists who killed his C.I.A. colleagues in a bomb attack in Pakistan.
24. The Affair
Weeks on the list: 8
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by: Lee Child Release date: Sep 27, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
For Jack Reacher, an elite military police officer, it all started in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up.
25. Red Mist
Weeks on the list: 8
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by: Patricia Cornwell Release date: Dec 06, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates a string of killings linked to the murder of her former deputy.
26. One For The Money
Weeks on the list: 8
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by: Janet Evanovich Release date: Feb 24, 1999 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The Jersey girl Stephanie Plum enters the business of crime-busting when she’s laid off from her job as a lingerie buyer; first published in 1994.
27. Toys
Weeks on the list: 7
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by: James Patterson , Neil McMahon Release date: Mar 14, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Hays Baker, a top operative for the Agency of Change and a national hero, suddenly finds himself a hunted fugitive who must fight to save humans from extinction.
28. The Sixth Man
Weeks on the list: 7
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by: David Baldacci Release date: Apr 19, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The lawyer for an alleged serial killer is murdered, and two former Secret Service agents are on the case.
29. Smokin’ Seventeen
Weeks on the list: 7
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by: Janet Evanovich Release date: Jun 21, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A killer is after the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, who faces further complications as she tries to choose a boyfriend.
30. Afraid To Die
Weeks on the list: 7
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by: Lisa Jackson Release date: Jul 01, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A nightmare is unfolding for the Grizzly Falls detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli: the frozen bodies of two women have been found, each wearing a piece of Alvarez’s jewelry.
Last updated on December 1, 2021
