Best sellers

June 22, 2014 at 2:02 a.m.

by Source: New York Times

Fiction

  1. MR. MERCEDES, by Stephen King. A driver plows into a crowd at a job fair, killing eight. The killer then taunts a suicidal ex-cop, who must stop another even deadlier attack.
  2. SKIN GAME, by Jim Butcher. Chicago wizard Harry Dresden is forced to help an enemy break into a high-security vault; the 15th Dresden Files novel.
  3. THE HURRICANE SISTERS, by Dorothea Benton Frank. Three generations of women endure a stormy summer in South Carolina's low country.
  4. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.
  5. A SHIVER OF LIGHT, by Laurell K. Hamilton. In the ninth Meredith Gentry paranormal romance, Merry must save herself and her triplets from Taranis, King of Light and Illusion.
  6. MIDNIGHT IN EUROPE, by Alan Furst. A Spanish lawyer working in Paris on the eve of World War II joins a mission to help the Republican troops.
  7. THE ONE AND ONLY, by Emily Giffin. A woman who has grown up and made her life in a small football-obsessed Texas town begins to expand her horizons.
  8. THE SMOKE AT DAWN, by Jeff Shaara. In the summer of 1863, the stage is set for a confrontation at Chattanooga, Tennessee, that could determine the fate of the divided nation; the third book in a series about the Civil War.
  9. SAVE THE DATE, by Mary Kay Andrews. A wedding florist tries to shore up her career with Savannah's society event of the season. But she has competition and complications.
  10. CHINA DOLLS, by Lisa See. Three Asian American women meet in San Francisco in 1938 at the Forbidden City nightclub.

Nonfiction

  1. ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. Ben Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon and now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems in health and education based on capitalism, not government.
  2. CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by Thomas Piketty. A French economist's analysis of centuries of economic history predicts worsening inequality and proposes solutions.
  3. THE CLOSER, by Mariano Rivera with Wayne Coffey. A memoir of life and baseball by the great Yankees pitcher.
  4. THINK LIKE A FREAK, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. How to solve problems creatively from the authors of Freakonomics.
  5. 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.
  6. FLASH BOYS, by Michael Lewis. The world of high-frequency computer-driven trading, from the author of Liar's Poker.
  7. FINDING ME, by Michelle Knight with Michelle Burford. The story of a woman kidnapped in Cleveland in 2002 who escaped in 2013.
  8. NO PLACE TO HIDE, by Glenn Greenwald. The journalist, part of the Guardian team that won a 2014 Pulitzer Prize, presents new material about NSA surveillance and describes his work with Edward Snowden.
  9. SPECIAL HEART, by Bret Baier with Jim Mills. A Fox News anchor on the challenges his family faced in caring for his son, who has congenital heart disease.
  10. DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell. How disadvantages can work in our favor; from the author of The Tipping Point.

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. 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.
  3. AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED, by Khaled Hosseini. A multigenerational family saga, centering on a brother and sister from a remote, impoverished village in Afghanistan.
  4. THE LONGEST RIDE, by Nicholas Sparks. The lives of two couples converge unexpectedly. While 91-year-old Ira is visited by his beloved wife (who died years earlier), Sophia, a college student, is enthralled by a young cowboy.
  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. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A father recounts his 3-year-old son's encounter with Jesus and the angels during an emergency appendectomy.
  2. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. The University of Washington's eight-oar crew and their quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
  3. LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson.The only survivor of a Navy SEALs operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle and his escape. First published in 2007.
  4. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed; it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
  5. LET'S EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS, by David Sedaris. A humorist returns with more wry takes on contemporary life.

Editorial on 06/22/2014

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