New York Times Hardcover Bestsellers Oct. 1 2010

This Week		Last Week	Weeks on List
1	FREEDOM, by Jonathan Franzen. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.) A family of Midwestern liberals during the Bush years; by the author of "The Corrections." Excerpt	2	4
2	SAFE HAVEN, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $25.99.) The arrival of a mysterious young woman in a small North Carolina town raises questions about her past.	1	2
3	THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) The third volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist. Excerpt	4	18
4*	BAD BLOOD, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $27.95.) Virgil Flowers is summoned to investigate a monstrous multigenerational conspiracy.		1
5	MINI SHOPAHOLIC, by Sophie Kinsella. (Dial, $25.) Keeping a surprise party on budget has domestic perils.		1
6	WICKED APPETITE, by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin’s, $27.99.) A dangerous man needs Elizabeth Tucker’s help to find an ancient power source.	3	2
7	THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi.	5	78
8	THE FALL, by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) A war erupts between Old and New World vampires. Book 2 of the Strain trilogy.		1
9	ROOM, by Emma Donoghue. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) A mother’s prison is her young son’s entire world.	10	2
10*	SANTA FE EDGE, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) A murder in a golfer’s hacienda brings Ed Eagle a new client.