New York Times Fiction Hardcover Bestsellers 10/10/2010

This Week		Last Week	Weeks on List
1	FALL OF GIANTS, by Ken Follett. (Dutton, $36.) Five interrelated families from five countries are caught in the upheavals of World War I and the Russian Revolution. Book 1 of the Century trilogy.		1
2	DON'T BLINK, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. (Little Brown, $27.99.) After a gruesome murder in a New York steak house, a reporter finds himself involved in a war between the Italian mob and the Russian mafia.		1
3	FREEDOM, by Jonathan Franzen. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.) A family of Midwestern liberals during the Bush years; by the author of "The Corrections." Excerpt	1	5
4	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.	2	3
5	SQUIRREL SEEKS CHIPMUNK, by David Sedaris. (Little Brown, $21.99.) The humorist looks at human nature through stories with animals as characters.		1
6	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	3	19
7	NAKED HEAT, by Richard Castle. (Hyperion, $24.99.) Nikki Heat’s latest murder investigation is complicated by a reunion with the journalist Jameson Rook.		1
8	LEGACY, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $28.) A writer’s stunning family discovery leads to Paris, the French aristocracy and a mysterious Sioux ancestor.		1
9	BAD BLOOD, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $27.95.) Virgil Flowers is summoned to investigate a monstrous multigenerational conspiracy.	4	2
10	THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi.	7	79