BEST-SELLERS
Fiction
1 GRAY MOUNTAIN, by John Grisham. A downsized Wall Street lawyer joins a legal clinic in a small Virginia town.
2. THE BURNING ROOM, by Michael Connelly. Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch and his new partner investigate two long-unsolved cases.
3. PRINCE LESTAT, by Anne Rice. The Vampire Chronicles continue after a long hiatus with the reappearance of Lestat de Lioncourt.
4. LEAVING TIME, by Jodi Picoult. After searching for her mother, who has disappeared for more than 10 years, a woman employs a psychic and a detective.
5. THE SLOW REGARD OF SILENT THINGS, by Patrick Rothfuss. An exploration of the world of Auri, a character in the Kingkiller Chronicles.
6. EDGE OF ETERNITY, by Ken Follett. Five interrelated families grapple with the events of the 1960s through the 1980s; Book 3 of the Century Trilogy.
7. HAVANA STORM, by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. Dirk Pitt becomes involved in a post-Castro power struggle in Cuba.
8. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr. The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II.
9. LILA, by Marilynne Robinson. The early life of the woman who becomes the wife of the widower and minister John Ames; a back story to Gilead.
10. DEADLINE, by John Sandford. Dognappers and a murdered reporter draw the attention of the Minnesota investigator Virgil Flowers.
Nonfiction
1. KILLING PATTON, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of The O’Reilly
Factor recounts the death of Gen. George S. Patton in December 1945.
2. YES PLEASE, by Amy Poehler. A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress, a Saturday Night Live alumna and star of Parks and Recreation.
3. NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL, by Lena Dunham. Essays from the creator and star of Girls.
4. BEING MORTAL, by Atul Gawande. The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life, and how they can do better.
5. TRUE LOVE, by Jennifer Lopez. The entertainer describes what she learned in the two-year period following her divorce.
6. STONEWALLED, by Sharyl Attkisson. An investigative reporter complains of harassment and intimidation by the Obama administration.
7. WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. Scientific and often humorous answers to hypothetical questions.
8. UNDENIABLE, by Bill Nye. The “Science Guy” explains how evolution shapes our lives.
9. SO ANYWAY …, by John Cleese. A memoir by the comedian, actor and writer, a former member of Monty Python.
10. DREAMERS AND DECEIVERS, by Glenn Beck with Kevin Balfe. More little-known stories from America’s past; a follow-up to Miracles and Massacres.
Paperback fiction
1. GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer?
2. BLOOD MAGICK, by Nora Roberts. In County Mayo, Ireland, Branna and Fin’s relationship offers them both comfort and torment; Book 3 of the Cousins O’Dwyer trilogy.
3. ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Kline. A historical novel about orphans swept off the streets of New York and sent to the Midwest in the 1920s.
4. THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
5. SHARP OBJECTS, by Gillian Flynn. Fresh from a stay at a psychiatric hospital, a newspaper reporter returns (reluctantly) to her hometown to cover the murders of two girls.
Paperback nonfiction
1. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his plane went down over the Pacific.
2. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
3. WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. A woman’s account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike she took along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995.
4. GEORGE WASHINGTON’S SECRET SIX, by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. The story of the Culper spy ring, which aided the American cause during the Revolution.
5. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed.