Best sellers

From Publishers Weekly

Sun., March 24, 2013

Fiction

1. “Alex Cross, Run,” James Patterson (Little, Brown, $28.99)

2. “The Storyteller,” Jodi Picoult (Atria, $28.99)

3. “The Striker,” Clive Cussler/Justin Scott (Putnam, $27.95)

4. “Gone Girl,” Gillian Flynn (Crown, $25)

5. “A Week in Winter,” Maeve Binchy (Knopf, $26.95)

6. “Calculated in Death,” J. D. Robb (Putnam, $27.95)

7. “Breaking Point (A Joe Pickett Novel),” C.J. Box (Putnam, $26.95)

8. “The Chance,” Karen Kingsbury (Howard Books, $22.99)

9. “A Story of God and All of Us,” Roma Downey/Mark Burnett (FaithWords, $24.99)

Nonfiction

1. “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” Sheryl Sandberg (Knopf, $24.95)

2. “Life Code,” Dr. Phil McGraw (Bird Street Books, $26)

3. “Shred: The Revolutionary Diet,” Ian K. Smith, M.D. (St. Martin’s, $24.99)

4. “Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot,” Bill O’Reilly/Martin Dugard (Henry Holt, $28)

5. “Sum It Up,” Pat Summitt/Sally Jenkins (Crown Archetype, $28)

6. “I Declare,” Joel Osteen (FaithWords, $21.99)

7. “The FastDiet,” Michael Mosley/Mimi Spencer (Atria, $24)

8. “ The Soundtrack of My Life,” Clive Davis (Simon & Schuster, $30)

9. “The Blood Sugar Solution Cookbook,” Mark Hyman (Little, Brown, $29.99)

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