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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is still popular with book-buying folk after Christmas and is top of the Bestsellers chart this week. James Patterson’s Worst Case sits at number two followed by Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. Elizabeth Kostova’s The Swan Thieves is number one in the Highest New Entries charts and crime-related books continue to flourish with Underbelly The Golden Mile by John Silvester & Andrew Rule the fastest mover this week.

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Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love, has topped the charts again in the Highest New Entries this week at any rate–with Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, her exploration of marriage ahead of her own nuptials. Dan Brown is number one in the Bestsellers with The Lost Symbol and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is close behind at number two. James Patterson, never seeming to be far from the action in the charts, has Worst Case coming in at number one in the Fastest Movers this week.

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Dan Brown gets his time in the sun this week with The Lost Symbol at number one in the Bestseller charts. Stieg Larsson and Stephenie Meyer battle it out beneath him with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Breaking Dawn (Red-Edged) coming second and third respectively. James Patterson’s Worst Case takes top spot in the Highest New Entries and Don’t Tell by Karen Rose moves the fastest on the Fastest Movers chart–Weekly Book Newsletter.

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That good old stalwart the Guinness World Records 2010 comes up trumps for the new year, topping both the Bestsellers and Fastest Movers chart this week. Dan Brown isn’t far behind with The Lost Symbol–coming second in both those charts. Don’t Tell by Karen Rose is the hottest thing on the Highest New Entries chart this week–a romance/thriller which sees character Mary Grace Winters fake the deaths of both herself and her son to escape her abusive husband.

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Young Australian author Matthew Reilly casts aside Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and other contenders for first place with The Five Greatest Warriors nabbing top spot in both the Bestsellers and Highest New Entries charts this week. Barry Humphries, another well-known Australian–albeit usually in disguise–also does well with Handling Edna: The Unauthorised Biography sitting pretty at number one on the Fastest Movers chart.

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Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol triumphs again in the Bestsellers at number one, followed by The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest by Stieg Larsson. The Highest New Entries chart saw Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? by Paul Barry nab top spot and Stephenie Meyer’s influence is still powerful with New Moon: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion by Mark Cotta Vaz coming in at number one in the Fastest Movers chart.

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It’s a girlish week at the top of the charts–Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest is number one in the Bestsellers (overtaking The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown), and Jackie Collins’ Poor Little Bitch Girl is top of the Fastest Movers chart. Hilary Mantel comes second in the Fastest Movers with her Man Booker-winning novel Wolf Hall. Mick Gatto & Tom Noble’s book I, Mick Gatto makes it to top spot in the Highest New Entries this week.

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Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest presides over the Highest New Entries chart this week and comes second in the Bestsellers after The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. Diana Gabaldon’s An Echo in the Bone is number one in the Fastest Movers this week, while Marian Keyes’ The Brightest Star in the Sky comes second.

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Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol keeps the numerous Stephanie Meyer titles at bay in the Bestsellers at number one this week, Irish writer Marian Keyes’ book The Brightest Star in the Sky is the ‘highest new entry’ and the film tie-in to Li Cunxin’s Mao’s Last Dancer takes number-one spot in the Fastest Movers chart.

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This week was a great one for local authors, among them Emily Maguire. Her new novel Smoke in the Room did very well on MX’s Most Mentioned chart. It follows the story of young people living in an apartment in Sydney. John Hirst, former reader in history at La Trobe University, has written The Shortest History of Europe, which begins with Greek and Roman learning and delivers us to our modern-day world. And in Andrew McGahan’s new novel, a witch, a virgin, an archangel, a duke and an orphan make up the characters in Wonders of a Godless World. Gerald Murnane’s Barley Patch also made the top five this week, as did Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol.

Most mentioned in the Media this week

1 Shortest History of Europe, The by John Hirst
2 Smoke in the Room, by Emily Maguire
3 Wonders of a Godless World, by Andrew McGahan
4 Year of the Flood, The by Margaret Atwood
5 Barley Patch, by Gerald Murnane

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