Best-Sellers

February 1, 2015 at 1:51 a.m.

Fiction

  1. 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.
  2. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in London is full of complications and betrayals.
  3. SAINT ODD, by Dean Koontz. In the conclusion to the Odd Thomas series, Odd, who can communicate with the dead, returns home to small-town California to meet one last challenge.
  4. GRAY MOUNTAIN, by John Grisham. A downsized Wall Street lawyer joins a legal clinic in a small Virginia town and becomes involved in litigation against the coal-mining industry.
  5. COLD COLD HEART, by Tami Hoag. Shaken by torture and rape at a serial killer’s hands, a TV reporter returns to her hometown, where she investigates the disappearance of a high school friend many years earlier.
  6. THE FIRST BAD MAN, by Miranda July. A house guest forces a passive woman into a bizarre but liberating sexual relationship.
  7. 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.
  8. HOPE TO DIE, by James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross’ family is kidnapped by a madman who wants to turn Cross into a perfect killer.
  9. THE BOSTON GIRL, by Anita Diamant. The daughter of Jewish immigrants grows up in early 20th-Century Boston.
  10. INSATIABLE APPETITES, by Stuart Woods. Distributing the estate of a friend, New York lawyer Stone Barrington unearths disturbing secrets.

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Nonfiction

  1. BEING MORTAL, by Atul Gawande. The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life, and offers suggestions for how they can do better.
  2. YES PLEASE, by Amy Poehler. A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress.
  3. 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.
  4. AMERICA’S BITTER PILL, by Steven Brill. The issues in American health care and health-care reform and recent developments including the drafting and implementation of the Affordable Care Act, by the journalist, editor and lawyer.
  5. WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. Scientific and often humorous answers to hypothetical questions.
  6. NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL, by Lena Dunham. Essays, mostly humorous, from the creator and star of Girls.
  7. 41, by George W. Bush. The former president’s portrait of his father, George H. W. Bush.
  8. 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 basis for the movie.
  9. IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, by Andie Mitchell. A memoir about the author’s long struggle with and eventual victory over obesity.
  10. DIGITAL DESTINY, by Shawn DuBravac. An economist argues that technology will transform our daily lives and solve many of mankind’s problems.

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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. 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.
  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. STILL ALICE, by Lisa Genova. A 50-year-old Harvard professor learns she has early onset Alzheimer’s disease; the basis for the movie.
  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 about battlefield experiences in Iraq by the Navy SEALs sniper; now a movie.
  2. 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; now a movie.
  3. 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; now a movie.
  4. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
  5. ALAN TURING: THE ENIGMA, by Andrew Hodges. The presiding mathematician and decoding force at Bletchley Park, the center that cracked the German Enigma code; inspiration for the film The Imitation Game.

Source: New York Times

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