NEW YORK TIMES
FICTION
The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins. (Riverhead) A psychological thriller set in London is full of complications and betrayals. THIS WEEK: 1 LAST WEEK: 1 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. (Scribner) The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II. THIS WEEK: 2 LAST WEEK: 4 WEEKS ON LIST: 19 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. (Crown) A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer? THIS WEEK: 3 LAST WEEK: 3 WEEKS ON LIST: 113 Burned by Karen Marie Moning. (Delacorte) Battling dark forces, MacKayla Lane must decide whom she can trust, and what her survival is ultimately worth; a Fever novel. THIS WEEK: 4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 Fifty Shades Of Grey by E.L. James. (Vintage) An innocent college student falls in love with a tortured man with particular sexual tastes. THIS WEEK: 5 LAST WEEK: 7 WEEKS ON LIST: 74 Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam) Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends? THIS WEEK: 6 LAST WEEK: 5 WEEKS ON LIST: 20 Still Alice by Lisa Genova. (Pocket Books) A 50-year-old Harvard professor learns she has early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. THIS WEEK: 7 LAST WEEK: 8 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. (Broadway) A woman who was spared when her mother and sisters were murdered begins to reinvestigate the case against her imprisoned brother. THIS WEEK: 8 LAST WEEK: 13 WEEKS ON LIST: 12 The Escape by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) John Puller, a special agent, hunts for his brother, who was convicted of treason and has escaped from prison. THIS WEEK: 9 LAST WEEK: 11 WEEKS ON LIST: 10 Gray Mountain by John Grisham. (Doubleday) A Wall Street lawyer joins a legal clinic in a Virginia town, and litigates against the coal-mining industry. THIS WEEK: 10 LAST WEEK: 10 WEEKS ON LIST: 14
NON-FICTION
American Sniper by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. (Morrow/HarperCollins)
An ex-Navy SEAL discusses his experiences in the Iraq War. Kyle was shot to death in Texas in 2013. THIS WEEK: 1 LAST WEEK: 1 WEEKS ON LIST: 49 Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House) An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. THIS WEEK: 2 LAST WEEK: 2 WEEKS ON LIST: 189 Wild by Cheryl Strayed. (Knopf ) A woman’s account of a life-changing 1,600km hike along the Pacific Crest Trail during the summer of 1995. THIS WEEK: 3 LAST WEEK: 3 WEEKS ON LIST: 97 The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown. (Viking) The University of Washington’s eight-oar crew and their quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. THIS WEEK: 4 LAST WEEK: 4 WEEKS ON LIST: 36 Clapton by Eric Clapton. (Broadway) The renowned rock guitarist looks back on his life. THIS WEEK: 5 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. (Metropolitan/Holt) A surgeon considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life, and how they can do better. THIS WEEK: 6 LAST WEEK: 8 WEEKS ON LIST: 16 Yes Please by Amy Poehler. (Dey Street/Morrow) A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress, an SNL alumna and the star of Parks And Recreation. THIS WEEK: 7 LAST WEEK: 6 WEEKS ON LIST: 13 Killing Patton by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt) The host of The O’Reilly Factor recounts the strange death of Gen George S. Patton in December 1945. THIS WEEK: 8 LAST WEEK: 7 WEEKS ON LIST: 18
God, Guns, Grits And Gravy by Mike Huckabee. (St. Martin’s)
The former Arkansas governor offers his take on our fractious American culture. THIS WEEK: 9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson. (Little, Brown)
The only survivor of a Navy SEALs operation in Afghanistan describes the battle and his escape. THIS WEEK: 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 27