BEST-SELLERS
Fiction
1. THE LOST YEARS, by Mary Higgins Clark. When a biblical scholar who made an amazing discovery is murdered, his daughter hunts for the killer (and a missing document).
2. GUILTY WIVES, by James Patterson and David Ellis. Four friends in Monte Carlo for a luxurious girls’ vacation find themselves in prison, accused of a crime.
3. SACRE BLEU, by Christopher Moore. Did Vincent van Gogh really kill himself? His friends in the 19th-century Parisian art world set out to discover the truth. 4. THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION, by Alexander Mccall Smith. The 13th novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
5. THE SHOEMAKER’S WIFE, by Adriana Trigiani. Childhood sweethearts in turnof-the-20th-century Italy meet again in America.
6. BETRAYAL, by Danielle Steel. A happy and successful Hollywood director discovers that someone is embezzling large sums of her money.
7. STAY CLOSE, by Harlan Coben. A disappearance in Atlantic City, N.J., brings together three frustrated people whose lives were once connected.
8. THE BEGINNER’S GOODBYE, by Anne Tyler. A middle-aged man mourning his wife’s death is comforted by her unexpected appearances.
9. LOVER REBORN, by J.R. Ward. Book 10 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
10. BEASTLY THINGS, by Donna Leon. Commissario Guido Brunetti of Venice investigates the death of a man who loved animals.
Nonfiction
1. DRIFT, by Rachel Maddow. America’s path to war has become too easy, with excessive power ceded to the executive branch, the MSNBC host argues.
2. THE BIG MISS, by Hank Haney. The golf coach’s memoir describes his six eventful years with Tiger Woods.
3. TRICKLE DOWN TYRANNY, by Michael Savage. The radio host denounces President Barack Obama’s domestic and foreign policies as tyranny.
4. IMAGINE, by Jonah Lehrer. An account of the science of creativity argues that it is not a gift but a thought process that can be learned.
5. MRS. KENNEDY AND ME, by Clint Hill with Lisa Mccubbin. Recollections of the Secret Service agent assigned to guard Jacqueline Kennedy.
6. WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. A woman’s account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
7. KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O’reilly and Martin Dugard. The anchor of “The O’reilly Factor” looks at the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
8. THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. A Times reporter’s account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits.
9. AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott Mcewen and Jim Defelice. A member of the Navy SEALS who has the most career sniper kills in U.S. military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.
10. STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson. A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur.
Paperback fiction
1. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James. An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in an erotic trilogy.
2. THE LUCKY ONE, by Nicholas Sparks. A Marine returning home sets out to track down the woman whose photo he found in Iraq. 3. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. In the last volume of the Millennium trilogy, Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are threatened by an adversary from deep within the government.
4. ZERO DAY, by David Baldacci. An Army veteran and military investigator teams up with a local homicide detective to uncover a conspiracy in West Virginia coal country.
5. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A white socialite and two black maids work on a tell-all book about black domestic servants in 1960s Mississippi.
Paperback nonfiction
1. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an emergency appendectomy.
2. BOSSYPANTS, by Tina Fey. A memoir from the former “Saturday Night Live” star and creator of “30 Rock.” 3. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA
LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. The story of an African-american woman whose cancerous cells were extensively cultured without her permission in 1951.
4. THE VOW, by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter with Dana Wilkerson. After a horrific car crash, a couple embark on a journey to fall in love all over again. The true events that inspired the movie.
5. MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN, by Joshua Foer. A journalist who covered a mnemonics championship tries competing himself.