Best-Sellers

April 19, 2015 at 1:52 a.m.

Fiction

  1. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in London.
  2. THE SHADOWS, by J.R. Ward. Book 13 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
  3. THE STRANGER, by Harlan Coben. Characters’ lives begin to fall apart as a mysterious stranger discloses secrets to them; a stand-alone thriller.
  4. 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.
  5. THE PATRIOT THREAT, by Steve Berry. Former government operative Cotton Malone searches for a North Korean who may have acquired Treasury Department files.
  6. AT THE WATER’S EDGE, by Sara Gruen. A Philadelphia socialite travels to the Scottish Highlands with her husband and his friend, who are searching for the Loch Ness monster; she falls in love with the countryside and its people and uncovers secrets about her husband and family.
  7. A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD, by Anne Tyler. Four generations of a family are drawn to a house in the Baltimore suburbs.
  8. THE NIGHTINGALE, by Kristin Hannah. Two sisters in World War II France: one struggling to survive in the countryside, the other joining the Resistance in Paris.
  9. THE BURIED GIANT, by Kazuo Ishiguro. In a semi-historical ancient Britain, an elderly couple set out in search of their son.
  10. NYPD RED 3, by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. Investigating the disappearance of a billionaire’s son, Detective Zach Jordan and his partner (and ex-girlfriend) find themselves in the midst of a conspiracy.

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Nonfiction

  1. DEAD WAKE, by Erik Larson.The last voyage of the Lusitania.
  2. 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.
  3. BECOMING STEVE JOBS, by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. Jobs, who started out as a brash young genius, developed a more mature management style.
  4. H IS FOR HAWK, by Helen Macdonald. A grief-stricken British woman decides to raise a goshawk, a fierce bird that is notoriously difficult to tame.
  5. 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.
  6. IN DEFENSE OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION, by Fareed Zakaria. A case for the centrality of the curriculum in the sciences and humanities.
  7. YES PLEASE, by Amy Poehler. A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress.
  8. HERETIC, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The author of Infidel and Nomad argues that fundamental doctrines of Islam must change for it to be compatible with democracy.
  9. WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. Scientific and often humorous answers to hypothetical questions.
  10. PIONEER GIRL, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The writer’s autobiography, the source of her Little House on the Prairie books, completed in 1930 and never published, is annotated by a biographer.

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Paperback fiction

  1. THE HUSBAND’S SECRET, by Liane Moriarty. Cecilia Fitzpatrick—successful businesswoman, devoted wife and mother—finds a letter that throws everything she’s believed into doubt.
  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 LONGEST RIDE, by Nicholas Sparks. The lives of two couples converge unexpectedly. While 91-year-old Ira is visited by his beloved wife (who passed away years earlier), Sophia, a college student, is enthralled by a young cowboy.
  4. 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.
  5. THE MARTIAN, by Andy Weir. After a dust storm forces his crew to abandon him, an astronaut embarks on a dogged quest to stay alive on Mars.

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Paperback nonfiction

  1. AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. A memoir recounts the battlefield experiences in Iraq by a Navy SEALs sniper.
  2. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
  3. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II after his plane went down over the Pacific.
  4. 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.
  5. THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. An oncologist’s history of cancer and its treatment.

Source: New York Times

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