Best-sellers

January 25, 2015 at 2:09 a.m.

Best-sellers

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. GRAY MOUNTAIN, by John Grisham. A downsized Wall Street lawyer joins a legal clinic in a small Virginia town.

  3. AS CHIMNEY SWEEPERS COME TO DUST, by Alan Bradley. Chemist and sleuth Flavia de Luce, now 12 and in boarding school in Canada, discovers a mummified body.

  4. INSATIABLE APPETITES, by Stuart Woods. Distributing the estate of a friend, New York lawyer Stone Barrington unearths disturbing secrets.

  5. THE EMPTY THRONE, by Bernard Cornwell. Rivals clash over succession when the king of Mercia in 10th-Century Britain dies without an heir; the eighth volume of the Saxon Tales.

  6. GOLDEN SON, by Pierce Brown. In Book 2 of the Red Rising trilogy, set in a dystopian future, a young laborer in the mines of Mars fights his world's ruling elite.

  7. HOPE TO DIE, by James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross' family is kidnapped by a madman who wants to turn Cross into a perfect killer.

  8. 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.

  9. THE BOSTON GIRL, by Anita Diamant. A daughter of Jewish immigrants grows up in early 20th-Century Boston.

  10. REVIVAL, by Stephen King. The continuing relationship, over five decades, between a disgraced clergyman and a drug-addicted musician.

Nonfiction

  1. YES PLEASE, by Amy Poehler. A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress.

  2. 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.

3 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.

  1. WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. Scientific and often humorous answers to hypothetical questions.

  2. NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL, by Lena Dunham. Essays from the creator and star of Girls.

  3. 41, by George W. Bush. The former president's portrait of his father, George H. W. Bush.

  4. AMERICA'S BITTER PILL, by Steven Brill. Issues in American health care and health-care reform including the drafting and implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

  5. DEEP DOWN DARK, by Héctor Tobar. An account, based on interviews, of the experience of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for 69 days in 2010 and, incredibly, rescued.

  6. IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, by Andie Mitchell. A memoir about the author's long struggle with and eventual victory over obesity.

  7. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II; the basis for 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. THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.

  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 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.

  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. AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. A memoir about battlefield experiences in Iraq by the Navy SEALs sniper.

  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.

  4. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.

  5. 10% HAPPIER, by Dan Harris. A co-anchor of Nightline reports on the science and spiritual basis of meditation and how it has improved his life.

Source: New York Times

Editorial on 01/25/2015

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