New York Times Bestsellers List for Hardcover Fiction for October 3, 2008

Hardcover Fiction

Published: October 3, 2008

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This Week		Last Week	Weeks on List
1	THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski. (Ecco, $25.95.) A mute takes refuge with three dogs in the Wisconsin woods after his father’s death. First Chapter	1	16
2	HEAT LIGHTNING, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $26.95.) Virgil Flowers investigates murder cases linked by a lemon in the mouth of each victim.		1
3	THE GIVEN DAY, by Dennis Lehane. (William Morrow, $27.95.) A policman, a fugitive and their families persevere in the turbulence of Boston at the end of World War I.		1
4	HOT MAHOGANY, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) A Stone Barrington mystery set amid the intrigues of the world of antiques and old and new money in New England.		1
5	ONE FIFTH AVENUE, by Candace Bushnell. (Hyperion, $25.95.) The worlds of gossip, theater and hedge funds have one address in common.		1
6	THE OTHER QUEEN, by Philippa Gregory. (Touchstone, $25.95.) The story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in captivity under Queen Elizabeth.	2	2
7	THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $24.95.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of an octogenarian’s niece 40 years ago.	4	2
8	TSAR, by Ted Bell. (Atria Books, $26.95.) The Kremlin has a brutal killer working for it in America.		1
9	THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. (Dial, $22.) A journalist meets the island’s old Nazi resisters.	5	9
10*	THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won’t surrender.