Best-Sellers - The New York Times 26/02/12

Olá leitores,

Como vão os preparativos para o carnaval por aí?? (Pra quem gosta, até porque eu mesmo não sou muito fã :p). Estou tentando ao máximo manter a regularidade nas postagens mas está difícil. Calma, eu não desistirei :D. Um pouco de culpa da ausência desta semana é O Hobbit, do Sir Tolkien, que me deu um pouco de trabalho, mas acabei de ler e vocês vão poder conferir a resenha ainda hoje.

Sem mais conversas paralelas, vamos ao que interessa. A lista desta semana tem mais dois livros novos, policiais, no topo da lista e, como de costume, o terceiro livro da Trilogia Millennium está entre os mais vendidos (Trilogia que com certeza irei ler!).

February 26, 2012

THIS WEEK		LAST WEEK	HARDCOVER FICTION	WEEKS ON LIST
1			KILL SHOT, by Vince Flynn. (Emily Bestler/Atria, $27.99.) Mitch Rapp, a C.I.A. super-agent hunting down perpetrators of the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing, finds himself caught in a dangerous trap.	1
2			CATCH ME, by Lisa Gardner. (Dutton, $26.95.) A woman asks the Boston detective D.D. Warren to prevent her being murdered in four days’ time.	1
3		4	DEFENDING JACOB, by William Landay. (Delacorte, $26.) An assistant district attorney’s life is shaken when his 14-year-old son is accused of murder.	2
4		2	PRIVATE: #1 SUSPECT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Jack Morgan, a former Marine and the head of an investigative firm, is accused of murder.	6
5	*	6	11/22/63, by Stephen King. (Scribner, $35.) 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.	14
6		5	DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY, by P. D. James. (Knopf, $25.95.) Elizabeth Bennet and her husband, Darcy, of "Pride and Prejudice," must deal with a murder.	10
7	*	1	HOME FRONT, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s, $27.99.) A woman’s husband and children are challenged when she is deployed to Iraq.	2
8		3	TAKEN, by Robert Crais. (Putnam, $26.95.) It’s Joe Pike to the rescue when Elvis Cole is seized by human traffickers.	3
9	*	7	THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.	78
10			LEFT FOR DEAD, by J. A. Jance. (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, $25.99.) Ali Reynolds seeks justice for an old friend and an unidentified woman, both victims of brutal attacks.	1
11		9	RAYLAN, by Elmore Leonard. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) A United States marshal sent to Harlan County, Ky., confronts organ trafficking, strip mining and bank robberies.	4
12			NO MARK UPON HER, by Deborah Crombie. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $25.99.) The drowning of a detective — and accomplished rower — on the Thames creates wide ripples.	1
13		11	A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $35.) After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."	28
14		10	THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $28.95.) Partners in a small law firm take on a big case.	16
15		12	THE FEAR INDEX, by Robert Harris. (Knopf, $25.95.) A billionaire hedge fund manager in Geneva who uses an algorithm to predict the movements of financial markets discovers that his computer program is misbehaving.	2
16	*	13	THE PARIS WIFE, by Paula McLain. (Ballantine, $25.) Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, narrates this novel set in Paris.	30

Also Selling

17. THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)
18. THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON, by Adam Johnson (Random House)
19. LOCKED ON, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney (Putnam)
20. EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN, by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)
21. BELIEVING THE LIE, by Elizabeth George (Dutton)
22. DEATH OF KINGS, by Bernard Cornwell (Harper/HarperCollins)
23. DARTH PLAGUEIS, by James Luceno (LucasBooks)
24. CITY OF DRAGONS, by Robin Hobb (Harper Voyager)
25. THE NIGHT CIRCUS, by Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)
26. 77 SHADOW STREET, by Dean Koontz (Bantam)
27. THE SNOW CHILD, by Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur)
28. THE SENSE OF AN ENDING, by Julian Barnes (Knopf)
29. LOVE IN A NUTSHELL, by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly (St. Martin’s)
30. THE ART OF FIELDING, by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown)
31. GIDEON’S CORPSE, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central)
32. PINEAPPLE GRENADE, by Tim Dorsey (Morrow/HarperCollins)
33. THE ROPE, by Nevada Barr (Minotaur)
34. STATE OF WONDER, by Ann Patchett (Harper/HarperCollins)
35. THE MARRIAGE PLOT, by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the February 26, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending February 11, 2012.

An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Read a full explanation of our methodology.