Top 10 Bestsellers 2010

Reading any book is a great way to relax, and leave the ordinary world behind, there is something magical about a bestseller. In order to fascinate so many people, a book has to be really well written - characters have to be vividly portrayed, their adventures and misadventures have to be believable - and engrossing. The protagonist has to engage the reader - otherwise nobody would care what happens to him. So any book that becomes a bestseller is likely to have done lots of things right.
You will find here latest books by the masters of the craft - like Dan Brown or Stephen King, or Jeff Kinney, Julia Childs and her 2 volume French Cooking, but also newcomers Sarah Palin with her book Going Rogue, political comentator Glenn Beck's Arguing with Idiots, or Greg Mortensen's Stones into Schools - about promoting peace in Afghanistan - with books, not arms.
Enjoy!

Best Selling Books 1-5

• Going Rouge: An American Life by Sarah Palin

• The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, No. 3) by Dan Brown

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

• Under the dome: A Novel
• SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Bestsellers 6-10

• Mastering the Art of French Cooking ( 2 volume set) by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck

• The twilight Saga Collection by Stephenie Meyer

• Arguing with idiots: How to stop samll minds and Big Government by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney

• Stones into Schools: Promoting peace with Books, not Bombs, Afghanistan and Pakistan byGreg Mortenson

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Children's Books

1	LISTEN TO THE WIND: THE STORY OF DR. GREG AND "THREE CUPS OF TEA", by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth. (Dial, $16.99.) A school grows in Pakistan. (Ages 4 to 8)
2	THE COMPOSER IS DEAD, by Lemony Snicket. Illustrated by Carson Ellis. Music by Nathaniel Stookey. (HarperCollins, $17.99.) A whodunit tour of the orchestra, with audio. (Ages 9 to 12)
3	THE HOUSE IN THE NIGHT, by Susan Marie Swanson. Illustrated by Beth Krommes. (Houghton Mifflin, $17.) A key, a bed, a book, a light, the moon. (Ages 4 to 8)
4	GALLOP!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. (Workman, $12.95.) Animals seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 4 to 8)
5	LADYBUG GIRL AND BUMBLEBEE BOY, by David Soman and Jacky Davis. Illustrated by David Soman. (Dial, $16.99.) A superheroes’ meeting of the minds at the playground. (Ages 3 to 5)
6	SWING!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. (Workman, $12.95.) Children seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 4 to 8)
7	CAT, written by Matthew Van Fleet and photographed by Brian Stanton. (Wiseman/Simon & Schuster, $16.99.) All kinds of cats, in motion and rhyme. (Ages 2 and up)
8	BLUEBERRY GIRL, by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Charles Vess. (HarperCollins, $17.99.) A book of wishes, addressed to a daughter. (All ages)
9	THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR, written and illustrated by Eric Carle. (Philomel, $29.99.) Still hungry after 40 years. A pop-up book. (Ages 3 and up)
10	NAKED MOLE RAT GETS DRESSED, written and illustrated by Mo Willems. (Disney-Hyperion, $16.99.) The rodent as individualist. (Ages 3 and up)

Hardcover Advice

1	ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN, by Steve Harvey with Denene Millner. (Amistad/HarperCollins, $23.99.) Relationship tips from the comedian and host of “The Steve Harvey Morning Show".
2	THE LAST LECTURE, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. (Hyperion, $21.95.) Thoughts on “seizing every moment” from Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon professor who died of pancreatic cancer at age 47.
3	THE SECRET, by Rhonda Byrne. (Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95.) The law of attraction as a key to getting what you want.
4	FLAT BELLY DIET!, by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass. (Rodale, $25.95.) Nutrition advice and workout tips from the editors of Prevention magazine.
5	FRACTAL TIME, by Gregg Braden. (Hay House, $24.95.) A guide to a world time cycle that is calculated to end in the year 2012.
6	THE ULTRAMIND SOLUTION, by Mark Hyman. (Scribner, $27.50.) How to pinpoint underlying biological problems to improve brain performance and allay depression, anxiety and more.
7	PEAKS AND VALLEYS, by Spencer Johnson. (Atria, $19.95.) Making both good and bad times work for you personally and professionally.
8	UNCOMMON, by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker. (Tyndale, $24.99.) The former coach of the Indianapolis Colts discourses on living “a life of significance.”
9	MAGNIFICENT MIND AT ANY AGE, by Daniel G. Amen. (Harmony, $24.95.) How to optimize healthy brain function through natural means.
10	WWE ENCYCLOPEDIA, by Brian Shields and Kevin Sullivan. (DK, $45.) A reference guide to World Wrestling Entertainment.

Paperback Nonficton

1	THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin, $15.) A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
2	THE MIDDLE PLACE, by Kelly Corrigan. (Voice, $14.95.) A woman’s struggle with cancer, her own and her father’s, helps her gain a new maturity.
3	I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max. (Citadel/Kensington, $15.95.) Life as a self-­absorbed, drunken womanizer.
4	DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, by Barack Obama. (Three Rivers, $14.95.) Obama on life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother.
5	EMERGENCY, by Neil Strauss. (Harper, $16.99.) Life on what might be the verge of apocalypse.
6	THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama. (Three Rivers, $14.95;, Vintage, $7.99.) The president proposes that Americans move beyond political divisions. First Chapter
7	EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Penguin, $15.) A writer’s yearlong journey in search of self.
8	THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95.) A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads. First Chapte
9	90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. (Revell, $12.99.) A minister on the other­worldly experience he had after an accident.
10	MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler. (Bloomsbury, $14.95.) A memoir of one-night stands.

Paperback Mass-Market Fiction

1	THE WHOLE TRUTH, by David Baldacci. (Vision, $9.99.) An intelligence agent and a journalist team up against a warmongering defense contractor.
2	HOLD TIGHT, by Harlan Coben. (Signet, $9.99.) The aftermath of a New Jersey high school kid’s suicide.
3	BONES, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $9.99.) The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware is called in when women’s bodies turn up in a Los Angeles marsh.
4	PLAGUE SHIP, by Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul. (Berkley, $9.99.) Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Ore­gon must determine what happened on a cruise ship full of dead bodies.
5	THE GRAND FINALE, by Janet Evanovich. (Harper/HarperCollins, $7.99.) In this reissue of a 1988 novel, a woman grabs the attention of a hunky man when she falls out of a tree and onto his pizza.
6	LOST SOULS, by Lisa Jackson. (Zebra, $7.99.) An aspiring true-crime writer investigates the disappearance of four girls at All Saints College and begins to realize she’s being stalked herself.
7	THE APPEAL, by John Grisham. (Dell, $7.99.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court rules against a company accused of dumping toxic waste. First Chapter
8	THE MACKADE BROTHERS: RAFE AND JARED, by Nora Roberts. (Silhouette, $7.99.) A reissue of two stories, featuring a pair of rebels in Antietam, Md.
9	MONTANA CREEDS: DYLAN, by Linda Lael Miller. (HQN, $7.99.) In this second book of a trilogy, “rodeo’s bad boy” returns home and sets hearts aflutter.
10	DANGER IN A RED DRESS, by Christina Dodd. (Signet, $7.99.) A woman on the Maine coast, entrusted with a deathbed secret, winds up being pursued by killers, and only Gabriel Prescott can save her.