BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

1. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in London is full of complications and betrayals.

2. 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.

3. SAINT ODD, by Dean Koontz. In the conclusion to the Odd Thomas series, Odd returns home to small-town California to meet one last challenge.

4. FIRST FROST, by Sarah Addison Allen. When a stranger shows up in Bascom, N.C., the Waverley women must make choices they have never confronted before.

5. BURNED, by Karen Marie Moning. Battling dark forces, MacKayla Lane must decide whom she can trust, and what her survival is ultimately worth; a Fever novel.

6. GRAY MOUNTAIN, by John Grisham. In a small Virginia town, a downsized Wall Street lawyer becomes involved in litigation against the mining industry.

7. THE BOSTON GIRL, by Anita Diamant. The daughter of Jewish immigrants grows up in early 20th-Century Boston.

8. HOPE TO DIE, by James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross’ family is kidnapped by a madman who wants to turn Cross into a perfect killer.

9. 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.

10. BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends?

Nonfiction

1. BEING MORTAL, by Atul Gawande. The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life, and offers suggestions for how they can do better.

2. YES PLEASE, by Amy Poehler. A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress.

3. GOD, GUNS, GRITS AND GRAVY, by Mike Huckabee. The former Arkansas governor offers his take on our fractious American culture.

4. 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.

5. WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. Scientific and often humorous answers to hypothetical questions.

6. NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL, by Lena Dunham. Essays, mostly humorous, from the creator and star of Girls.

7. DEEP DOWN DARK, by Héctor Tobar. An account, based on interviews, of the experience of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for 69 days in 2010 and, incredibly, rescued.

8. 41, by George W. Bush.The former president’s portrait of his father, George H. W. Bush.

9. AMERICA’S BITTER PILL, by Steven Brill. The issues in American health care and health care reform and recent developments including the drafting and implementation of the Affordable Care Act, by the journalist, editor and lawyer.

10. LEAVING BEFORE THE RAINS COME, by Alexandra Fuller. A memoir of a marriage’s collapse.

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. 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 a trilogy.

3. STILL ALICE, by Lisa Genova. A 50-year-old Harvard professor learns she has early-onset Alzheimer’s disease; the basis for the movie.

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. AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. A memoir about battlefield experiences in Iraq by the Navy SEALs sniper; now a movie.

2. 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; now a movie.

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; now a movie.

4. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.

5. LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson. A harrowing Navy SEALs operation.