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| 1 | WORST CASE (Little, Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. A serial killer targets the children of NYC's most affluent families. | 2 |
| 2 | THE HELP (Amy Einhorn, $24.95) By Kathryn Stockett. A frank chronicle of the lives of several black maids working in a town in 1960s Miss. | 30 |
| 3 | THE LOST SYMBOL (Doubleday, $29.95) By Dan Brown. Masonic lore figures prominently in this sequel to "The Da Vinci Code"; set in D.C. | 22 |
| 4 | BRAVA, VALENTINE (Harper, $25.99) By Adriana Trigiani. Shoe designer Val Roncalli is in for some surprises in this "Very Valentine" sequel. | 1 |
| 5 | WINTER GARDEN (St. Martin's, $26.99) By Kristin Hannah. A father's death drives two sisters' discovery of their Russian-born mother's scarred past. | 2 |
| 6 | POOR LITTLE BITCH GIRL (St. Martin's, $26.99) By Jackie Collins. A spoiled heiress finds herself back in L.A. after her mom's murder. The suspect is her dad. | 1 |
| 7 | MIDNIGHT HOUSE (Putnam, $25.95) By Alex Berenson. CIA agent John Wells is enlisted to stop an assassin targeting a disbanded secret unit. | 1 |
| 8 | FLIRT (Berkley, $23.95). By Laurell K. Hamilton This 18th Anita Blake adventure finds a bereaved widower seeking to bring back his dead wife. | 2 |
| 9 | THE SWAN THIEVES (Little, Brown, $26.99) By Elizabeth Kostova. A bizarre attack on a canvas in the National Gallery of Art opens this tale of obsession. | 5 |
| 10 | THE POSTMISTRESS (Amy Einhorn, $25.95) By Sarah Blake. The specter of war in Europe draws together the lives of three different women in 1940. | 1 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | GAME CHANGE: OBAMA AND THE CLINTONS, MCCAIN AND PALIN, AND THE RACE OF A LIFETIME (Harper, $27.99). By John Heilemann & Mark Halperin | 5 |
| 2 | ON THE BRINK: INSIDE THE RACE TO STOP THE COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM (Business Plus, $28.99). By Henry M. Paulson Jr. | 2 |
| 3 | THE POLITICIAN: AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF JOHN EDWARDS'S PURSUIT OF THE PRESIDENCY . . . (Thomas Dunne, $24.99). By Andrew Young | 3 |
| 4 | COMMITTED: A SKEPTIC MAKES PEACE WITH MARRIAGE (Viking, $26.95). By Elizabeth Gilbert Picking up where "Eat, Pray, Love" left off. | 6 |
| 5 | STAYING TRUE (Ballantine, $25) By Jenny Sanford. A memoir by the (soon to be ex-) wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. | 1 |
| 6 | THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS (Crown, $26). By Rebecca Skloot. The shocking story of a stem cell theft in 1951 and the HeLa cell line. | 2 |
| 7 | THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT: EIGHT CENTURIES OF FINANCIAL FOLLY (Princeton Univ., $35) By Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff | 1 |
| 8 | THE HAPPINESS PROJECT (Harper, $25.99) By Gretchen Rubin. What happened when a lawyer, writer and mom set out to improve her life in a year. | 4 |
| 9 | ENTERPRISE 2.0: NEW COLLABORATIVE TOOLS FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION'S TOUGHEST CHALLENGES (Harvard Business School, $29.95). By Andrew McAfee | 1 |
| 10 | MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING (Knopf, $40). By Julia Child. The 40th anniversary edition of the book that shook up American cuisine. | 11 |
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Feb. 14, 2010. The charts may not be reproduced without permission from Nielsen BookScan. Copyright © 2010 by Nielsen BookScan. (The right-hand column of numbers represents weeks on this list, which premiered in Book World on Jan. 11, 2004. The bestseller lists in print alternate between hardcover and paperback.)
