BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

1. THE CUCKOO’S CALLING, by Robert Galbraith. Struggling detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide; by J.K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.

2. INFERNO, by Dan Brown. Symbologist Robert Langdon, on the run in Florence, must decipher a series of codes created by a Dante-loving scientist.

3. MISTRESS, by James Patterson and David Ellis. When he begins to investigate a friend’s mysterious death, a man discovers that she was leading a double life.

4. AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED, by Khaled Hosseini. A multigenerational family saga centers on a brother and sister born in Afghanistan.

5. THE THIRD KINGDOM, by Terry Goodkind. A sequel to The Omen Machine.

6. NIGHT FILM, by Marisha Pessl. Investigators pursue a master horror film auteur after his daughter is found dead.

7. THE BONE SEASON, by Samantha Shannon. A young clairvoyant discovers her powers in a dystopian England in 2059; the first pick of the Today show book club.

8. GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?

9. THE KILL LIST, by Frederick Forsyth. An Arabic-speaking Marine major known as the Tracker pursues a terrorist who radicalizes young Muslims living abroad.

10. THE HUSBAND’S SECRET, by Liane Moriarty. A woman’s life is upended when she discovers a letter she was not meant to read.

Nonfiction

1. THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS, by Mark R. Levin. The talk-radio host and president of the Landmark Legal Foundation offers 11 proposals for returning to America’s founding principles.

2. ZEALOT, by Reza Aslan. A biography of Jesus of Nazareth presents him in the context of his times as the leader of a revolutionary movement.

3. LEAN IN, by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell. The chief operating officer of Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence.

4. HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, by Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach. The Duck Commander pays tribute to “faith, family and ducks.”

5. EXPOSED, by Jane Velez-Mitchell. The story of Jodi Arias, who was convicted of murdering her boyfriend, Travis Alexander.

6. LAWRENCE IN ARABIA, by Scott Anderson. A history of the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I focuses on T.E. Lawrence and other adventurers.

7. THIS TOWN, by Mark Leibovich. An examination of Washington’s “media-industrial complex” by the chief national correspondent for the New York Times Magazine.

8. INFILTRATED, by Jay W. Richards. An argument that financial reformers have infiltrated American institutions and are waging war against free enterprise.

9. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his bomber went down over the Pacific.

10. LET’S EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS, by David Sedaris. Essays from the humorist on subjects like French dentistry and a North Carolina Costco.

Paperback fiction

1. THE CASUAL VACANCY, by J.K. Rowling. The sudden death of a parish councilman reveals bitter social divisions in an idyllic English town; the author’s first novel for adults.

2. 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.

3. THE SILENT WIFE, by A.S.A. Harrison. Told in alternating voices, this is a chilling portrait of a marriage gone terribly awry between Todd, a cheater who exists in dual worlds, and Jodi, whose carefully ordered existence is in jeopardy and has nothing left to lose.

4. BEAUTIFUL RUINS, by Jess Walter. Ruins both emotional and architectural in Italy, Hollywood and elsewhere figure in this sweeping novel.

5. THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.

Paperback nonfiction

1. PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander. A neurosurgeon recounts his near-death experience during a coma from bacterial meningitis.

2. ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. A memoir by a Brooklyn woman whose relationship with a drug runner gets her sentenced to a year in prison. The basis for the Netflix series, originally published in 2010.

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. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed; it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.

5. QUIET, by Susan Cain. Introverts, onethird of the population, are undervalued in American society.