Best-sellers

Best-sellers

Fiction

  1. 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.
  2. COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE, by Haruki Murakami. A young man's difficult coming-of-age.
  3. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. A painting becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.
  4. BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends?
  5. THE BROKEN EYE, by Brent Weeks. A fantasy sequel to The Black Prism and The Blinding Knife.
  6. ADULTERY, by Paulo Coelho. A married journalist risks everything when she embarks on an affair.
  7. MEAN STREAK, by Sandra Brown. A North Carolina pediatrician is held captive by a mysterious man.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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

  1. 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.

  1. 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.
  2. ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. A Brooklyn woman's prison memoir. The basis for the Netflix series, originally published in 2010.
  3. 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.
  4. IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE, by Hampton Sides. An 1879 polar voyage goes terribly wrong.
  5. A FRIEND LIKE HENRY, by Nuala Gardner. The story of an autistic boy and the dog that unlocked his world.
  6. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed.
  7. THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS, by David McCullough. A history of the creation of the Panama Canal; first published in 1977.
  8. 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

  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. SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. A sequel, about race and inheritance, to A Time to Kill.
  3. 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.
  4. THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
  5. 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

  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.
  4. ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. A memoir about a year in a women's prison. The basis for the Netflix series.
  5. 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

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