Best-sellers

September 21, 2014 at 1:49 a.m.

by Source: New York Times

Fiction

  1. PERSONAL, by Lee Child. Jack Reacher, a former military cop, helps the State Department and the CIA stop a sniper who has targeted a G8 summit.
  2. SOMEWHERE SAFE WITH SOMEBODY GOOD, by Jan Karon. The Mitford character Father Tim Kavanagh returns to his native town to find friends and family wrestling with difficulties.
  3. THE BONE CLOCKS, by David Mitchell. Stories from the medieval Swiss Alps, the 19th-Century Australian bush, a hotel in Shanghai, and Manhattan in the near future are stitched together.
  4. THE SECRET PLACE, by Tana French. A clue to a murder on the grounds of a girls' school in the Dublin suburbs appears on a bulletin board, and Detectives Stephen Moran and Antoinette Conway investigate.
  5. THE EYE OF HEAVEN, by Clive Cussler and Russell Blake. Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo discover a Viking ship full of artifacts from pre-Columbian Mexico in the Arctic ice.
  6. COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE, by Haruki Murakami. A young man's difficult coming-of-age.
  7. THE LONG WAY HOME, by Louise Penny. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, retired from the Sûreté du Québec and settled in the village of Three Pines, searches for a neighbor's missing husband.
  8. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. A painting becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.
  9. BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends?
  10. MEAN STREAK, by Sandra Brown. A North Carolina pediatrician is held captive by a mysterious man.

Nonfiction

  1. WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. Scientific, often humorous answers to hypothetical questions.
  2. UNPHILTERED, by Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach. What the Duck Commander (from the A&E show Duck Dynasty) really thinks about various topics.
  3. ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. Ben Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems.
  4. DIARY OF A MAD DIVA, by Joan Rivers. Humorous reflections about life, pop culture and celebrities.
  5. IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE, by Hampton Sides. An 1879 polar voyage goes terribly wrong.
  6. AMERICA, by Dinesh D'Souza. A defense of America against the view that its power in the world should be diminished.
  7. THE ORGANIZED MIND, by Daniel J. Levitin. A professor draws on research in neuroscience to explain how organization can help us manage information in our lives.
  8. THE TEACHER WARS, by Dana Goldstein. A journalist surveys the history of public school teaching and finds that it sheds light on current controversies.
  9. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
  10. THINK LIKE A FREAK, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. How to solve problems creatively.

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. THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
  4. SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. A sequel, about race and inheritance, to A Time to Kill.
  5. THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.

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. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed; it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
  4. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A young boy's encounter with Jesus and the angels.
  5. WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. A life-changing hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.

Editorial on 09/21/2014

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