BEST-SELLERS
Fiction
1. THE ESCAPE, by David Baldacci. John Puller, a special agent with the Army, hunts for his brother, who was convicted of treason and has escaped from prison.
2. REVIVAL, by Stephen King. The continuing relationship, over five decades, between a disgraced clergyman and a drug-addicted musician.
3. GRAY MOUNTAIN, by John Grisham. A downsized Wall Street lawyer joins a legal clinic in a small Virginia town.
4. THE MISTLETOE PROMISE, by Richard Paul Evans. A divorced woman enters into a contract with a strange man to pretend to be a couple until Christmas.
5. THE BURNING ROOM, by Michael Connelly. Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch and his new partner investigate two long-unsolved cases.
6. THE CINDERELLA MURDER, by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke. A TV producer plans a show about a cold case— the murder of a UCLA student who was found with one shoe missing.
7. FLESH AND BLOOD, by Patricia Cornwell. Dr. Kay Scarpetta pursues a sniper who may be a vigilante; the 22nd Scarpetta novel.
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. THE JOB, by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg. FBI special agent Kate O’Hare works with Nicolas Fox, a handsome con man, to pursue a drug kingpin.
10. PRINCE LESTAT, by Anne Rice. The Vampire Chronicles continue after a long hiatus.
Nonfiction
1. 41, by George W. Bush. The former president’s portrait of his father, George H. W. Bush.
2.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.
3. YES PLEASE, by Amy Poehler. A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress, an SNL alumna and the star of Parks and Recreation.
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. THE ANDY COHEN DIARIES, by Andy Cohen. One year in the (social) life of the TV producer and host of Watch What
Happens Live.
6. WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. Scientific and often humorous answers to hypothetical questions.
7. ONE NATION UNDER TAUGHT, by Vince M. Bertram. How to help American students who are falling behind in science, technology, engineering and math education.
8. SMALL VICTORIES, by Anne Lamott. Essays about forgiveness, transformation and grace.
9. DREAMERS AND DECEIVERS, by Glenn Beck with Kevin Balfe. More little-known stories from America’s past; a follow-up
to Miracles and Massacres.
10. NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL, by Lena Dunham. Essays from the creator and
star of Girls.
Paperback fiction
1. CAPTIVATED BY YOU, by Sylvia Day. Eva and Gideon’s vows have opened old wounds, exposed insecurities and lured bitter enemies out of the shadows; a Crossfire novel.
2. GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer?
3. 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.
4. 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.
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. 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. THE SCIENCE OF INTERSTELLAR, by Kip Thorne. A physicist explains the science behind the movie.
5. QUIET, by Susan Cain. Introverts are undervalued in American society.
Source: New York Times