Best-sellers
Fiction
- 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.
- COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE, by Haruki Murakami. A young man's difficult coming-of-age.
- THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. A painting becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.
- BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends?
- THE BROKEN EYE, by Brent Weeks. A fantasy sequel to The Black Prism and The Blinding Knife.
- ADULTERY, by Paulo Coelho. A married journalist risks everything when she embarks on an affair.
- MEAN STREAK, by Sandra Brown. A North Carolina pediatrician is held captive by a mysterious man.
- 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.
- WE ARE NOT OURSELVES, by Matthew Thomas. Three generations of a New York Irish-American family wrestle with economic and domestic aspirations and, finally, with a terrible disease.
- THE 6TH EXTINCTION, by James Rollins. The 10th Sigma Force novel offers Nazis, an ancient secret, a ticking nuclear clock and alien life-forms.
Nonfiction
- UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
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.
- ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. Ben Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems in health and education based on capitalism, not government.
- ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. A Brooklyn woman's prison memoir. The basis for the Netflix series, originally published in 2010.
- WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. A woman's account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail during the summer of 1995.
- IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE, by Hampton Sides. An 1879 polar voyage goes terribly wrong.
- A FRIEND LIKE HENRY, by Nuala Gardner. The story of an autistic boy and the dog that unlocked his world.
- OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed.
- THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS, by David McCullough. A history of the creation of the Panama Canal; first published in 1977.
- HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A 3-year-old's encounter with Jesus during an appendectomy; the basis of the movie.
Paperback fiction
- GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer?
- SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. A sequel, about race and inheritance, to A Time to Kill.
- 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.
- THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
- 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.
Paperback nonfiction
- 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.
- THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
- OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed.
- ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. A memoir about a year in a women's prison. The basis for the Netflix series.
- A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. A former child soldier's killing spree and return to humanity.
Source: New York Times
Editorial on 09/14/2014