New York Times bestsellers
HARDBACK FICTION
1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead). A psychological thriller set in London is full of complications and betrayals.
2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner). The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II.
3. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (Morrow/HarperCollins). Five thousand years after a small number of survivors of the moon’s explosion took refuge on an international space station, their descendants contemplate a return to Earth. 4. Memory Man by David Baldacci (Grand Central). A police detective who left the force when his family was murdered teams with his former partner to solve the case, relying on the extraordinary memory he developed as a result of a collision in his earlier football career.
5. 14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown). A video of a shocking crime surfaces, casting suspicion on a San Francisco detective’s colleagues.
6. Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews (St. Martin’s). Complications arise when a Hollywood location scout tries to arrange a shoot in a Florida Gulf Coast town.
7. Gathering Prey by John Sandford (Putnam). In the 25th installment of the Prey series, Lucas Davenport is on the trail of killers who have targeted vagabonds called the Travelers.
8. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s). Two sisters in World War II France: one struggling to survive in the countryside, the other joining the Resistance in Paris.
9. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (St. Martin’s). Harry D’Amour, the detective from Barker’s Books of Blood, faces off against Pinhead, the sadistic Cenobite from the Hellraiser series.
10. Robert B. Parker’s Kickback by Ace Atkins (Putnam). Spenser defends a high school student wrongly accused of terrorism and sentenced to a brutal boot camp; a continuation of the series by Parker, who died in 2010.
HARDBACK NONFICTION
1. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster). The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.
2. The Road to Character by David Brooks (Random House). The Times columnist extols personal virtues such as kindness and honesty in a materialistic age. 3. Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance (Ecco/HarperCollins). A technology writer follows Musk’s life from his difficult South African childhood to his involvement in Internet start-ups like the rocket company SpaceX, the electric-car company Tesla and the solar power installation company Solar City.
4. And the Good News Is ... by Dana Perino (Twelve). The Fox News contributor and former press secretary under President George W. Bush reviews her life and career.
5. Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies by David Fisher (Holt). Stories of the American West; a companion volume to the Fox News series.
6. Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer (Harper/HarperCollins). An examination of donations made to the Clinton Foundation.
7. A Lucky Life Interrupted by Tom Brokaw (Random House) The journalist describes the year following his diagnosis with multiple myeloma.
8. Dead Wake by Erik Larson (Crown). The last voyage of the Lusitania, the passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo in 1915; by the author of “The Devil in the White City.”
9. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan/Holt). The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life and how they can do better.
10. It’s a Long Story by Willie Nelson with David Ritz (Little, Brown). The country music star discusses his life’s journey, from selling encyclopedias to professional fame.
HARDBACK MISCELLANEOUS
1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (Ten Speed). Decluttering with an unconventional method for discarding things all at once and organizing your space.
2. The Whole30 by Dallas Hartwig (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Overview of a 30-day guide to better health and weight loss.
3. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (Northfield). How to communicate love in a way a spouse will understand. 4. Brain Maker by David Perlmutter with Kristin Loberg (Little, Brown). A neurologist links brain health to the population of microbes inhabiting our bodies.
5. What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel (Workman). Advice for parents on the verge of giving birth.
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Back Bay/Little, Brown). After his mother is killed in a museum explosion, a young man grapples with the world alone while hiding a prized Dutch painting. 2. Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult (Ballantine). After searching for her mother, who has disappeared, for more than 10 years, a woman employs a psychic and a detective; includes the novella “Larger Than Life.”
3. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin). The bond between a wealthy Charleston girl, who grows up to become an abolitionist, and a slave.
4. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne/HarperCollins). In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
5. The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty (Berkley). Cecilia Fitzpatrick — successful businesswoman, devoted wife and mother — finds a letter that throws everything into doubt.
6. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (Morrow/ HarperCollins). A historical novel about orphans swept off the streets of New York and sent to the Midwest in the 1920s.
7. The Martian by Andy Weir (Broadway). After a dust storm forces his crew to abandon him, an astronaut embarks on a dogged quest to stay alive on Mars.
8. Euphoria by Lily King (Grove Press). Three anthropologists in 1930s New Guinea are caught in a passionate love triangle.
9. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (Penguin). Tragedy tears away at a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio.
10. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Simon & Schuster). A genetics professor with Asperger’s syndrome becomes involved with an unconventional woman.
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
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2. DeFelice American (Harper/HarperCollins).Sniper by Chris Kyle A with memoir Scott about McEwen battlefieldand Jim experiences in Iraq by the Navy SEAL sniper.
3. Things That Matter by Charles Krauthammer (Crown). Essays and reflections from a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.
4. Wild by Cheryl Strayed (Vintage). A life-changing hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
5. David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown). How disadvantages can work in our favor; by the author of “The Tipping Point” and “Blink.”
6. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown). Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent. 7. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House). 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.
8. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). How we make choices in business and life.
9. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg (Random House). An examination of the science behind habits, how we form them and break them.
10. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (New Press). A law professor takes aim at the “war on drugs.”