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Best-Selling Books of 2011

Media Patch checks out the best-sellers of the year, both fiction and non-fiction.

Lauren Avellino Turton, Neighbor
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Many books this year received much notariety and press, like the Harry Potter series and Steve Jobs' biography. Which made the New York Times' Best Seller List? The books that got the top nod include Stephen King's 52nd novel and some non-fiction books in a wide array of genres, from biography to history.

 

FICTION-Combined Print and eBook

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  1. 11/22/63, by Stephen King
  2. Locked On, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney
  3. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
  4. The Litigators, by John Grisham
  5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

NON-FICTION-Combined Print and eBook

  1. Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
  2. Killing Lincoln, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
  3. Heaven is for Real, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
  4. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand
  5. Jack Kennedy, by Chris Matthews

 

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And the winner of the best-selling books of all time... A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, which was written in 1859.

 

 

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