NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction 12/01/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending December 1st 2013

10 - The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion - Fannie Flagg
(2 weeks on list)

9  -  Mirage - Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul
(2 weeks on list)

8  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(9 weeks on list)

7 -  The Valley of Amazement - Amy Tan
(2 weeks on list)

6  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(8 weeks on list)

5  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
(4 weeks on list)

4  -  White Fire - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
(Debut)
Special agent Pendergast discovers that the killing of several miners 150 years ago my be related to deadly arson attacks at a Colorado ski resort.

3  -  Dust - Patricia Cornwell
(Debut)
The murder of a computer engineer at M.I.T. leads the Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in unexpected directions.

2  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(4 weeks on list) (3 at #1)

1  -  The First Phone Call From Heaven - Mitch Albom
(DEBUT)
A small Michigan town is transformed when its residents receive phone calls said to be from Heaven.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction 11/17/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending November 17th 2013

10 - Identical - Scott  Turow
(3 weeks on list)

9  -  We Are Water - Wally Lamb
(2 weeks on list)

8  -  S - Doug Dorst
(Debut)
In a project conceived by the writer and director J.J. Abrams, the facsimile of a novel published in 1949 contains marginal annotations, postcards, newspaper clippings and other objects.  Two of the annotators are students who flirt and spar and begin to decode the novels mystery.

7  -  Accused - Lisa Scottoline
(Debut)
Mary DiNunzio is now a partner at the all-women Philadelphia law firm of Rosato and Associates.

6  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(7 weeks on list)

5  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(6 weeks on list)

4  -  Winners - Danielle Steel
(Debut)
Six people with intertwined lives, among them an aspiring Olympic skier who is gravely injured, struggle to surmount challenges.

3  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
(2 weeks on list)

2  -  After Dead - Charlaine Harris
(Debut)
A coda to the Sookie Stackhouse novels that inspired "True Blood".

1  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(2 weeks on list) (2nd consecutive week at #1)

NY Times Bestseller List - Hardback Fiction 11/10/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending November 10th 2013

10 - Just One Evil Act - Elizabeth George
(2 weeks on list)
In the 18th Inspector Lynley novel, Lynley's partner Barbara Havers searchs for a friend's kidnapped child in Italy.

9  -  Bridget Jones : Mad About the Boy - Helen Fielding
(2 weeks on list)
Bridget, now 51 and a mother and widow, is once again looking for love.

8  -  Gone - James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
(4 weeks on list)

7  -  Storm Front - John Sanford
(3 weeks on list)

6  -  Identical - Scott Turow
(2 weeks on list)
Paul Giannis running for mayor of Kindle County, is accused of having played a role in the murder of his identical twin brother's girlfriend - for which his brother, Cass, has already served time.

5  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(6 weeks on list)

4  -  We Are Water - Wally Lamb
(Debut)
About to marry the woman who is her gallery owner, a divorced artist and mother must confront secrets from her past.

3  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(5 weeks on list) (Last week's #1)

2  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
(Debut)
A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy's prized, guilt and burden.

1  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(DEBUT)
A sequel, about race and inheritance, to "A Time to Kill".  

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (10/27/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending October 27th 2013

10 - The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
(3 weeks on list)

9  - The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert
(2 weeks on list)
A 19th century botanist's love of knowledge takes her to Tahiti.

8  -  Doing Hard Time - Stuart Woods
(Debut)
In the 27th Stone Barrington novel, the New York lawyer teams up with a rogue former CIA agent and heads west to protect Barrington's son and his friends from Russian assassins.

7  -  The Circle - Dave Eggers
(Debut)
A dystopian novel about life on the campus of a powerful Internet company.

6  -  Starry Night - Debbie Macomber
(Debut)
At Christmastime, a big-city columnist sets out to interview a reclusive author in Alaska.

5  -  Dog Songs - Mary Oliver
(Debut)
The dogs who have shared the life of the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, in 35 poems and an essay.

4  -  Gone - James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
(2 Weeks on list)
Detective Michael Bennett, living with his 10 adopted children on a California fame is pursued by the head of a Mexican drug cartel he once put in jail.

3  - The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(4 weeks on list)

2  - Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(3 weeks on list) (2 consecutive weeks at #1)

1  - Storm Front - John Sanford
(DEBUT)
The Minnesota investigator Virgil Flowers becomes involved in the hunt for an ancient inscribed stone smuggled out of the Middle East.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (10/13/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending October 13th 2013

10 - Inferno - Dan Brown
(20 weeks on list)

9  -  The Final Cut - Catherine Coulter
(2 weeks on list)

8  -  Thankless in Death - J.D. Robb
(2 weeks on list)

7  -  Deadline - Sandra Brown
(Debut)
A journalist who pursues a story about a former marine, the son of terrorists from 40 years ago, becomes a suspect in the death of his ex-wife.

6  -  W is for Wasted - Sue Grafton
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  Never Go Back - Lee  Child
(4 weeks on list)

4  -  The Quest - Nelson DeMille
(2 weeks on list)

3  -  The Lowland - Jhumpa Lhairi
(Debut)
After his radical brother is killed, an Indian scientist brings his widow to join him in America.

2  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(2 weeks on list) (last week at #1)

1  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(DEBUT)
Now grown up, Dan, the boy with psycho-intuitive powers in "The Shining", helps another threatened child with a spectacular gift.

NY Times Bestseller List - Hardback Non Fiction (10/06/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Non Fiction

Week Ending October 6th 2013

10 - Reign of Error - Diane Ravitch
(Debut)
An education scholar denounces what she claims is an effort by foundations, individual billionaires and hedge fund managers to destroy public education.

9  -  Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir - Linda Ronstadt
(Debut)
The singer looks back on her life and career

8  -  Empty Mansions - Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr.
(2 weeks on list)
The eccentric life of the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, who died at the age of 104 in 2011.

7  -  Grain Brain - David Perlmutter w/Kristin Loberg
(Debut)
The deleterious effect of carbohydrates on the brain and how to reverse it.

6  -  Liberty Amendments - Mark R. Levin 
(6 weeks on list)

5  -  Happy Happy Happy - Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach
(20 weeks on list)

4  -  Zealot - Rezaa Aslan 
(10 weeks on list)

3  -  Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell
(28 weeks on list)

2  -  Still Foolin' 'Em - Billy Crystal
(2 weeks on list)
The 65 year old comedian's reminiscences and his complaints about aging.

1  -  Si - Cology 1 - Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach
(3 weeks on list)

NY Times Bestseller List - Hardback Fiction 10/06/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending October 6th 2013

10 - Inferno - Dan Brown
(19 weeks on list)

9  -  The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
(10 weeks on list)

8  -  Deadly Heat - Richard Castle
(Debut)
The NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat and the journalist James Rook search for the former CIA station chief who ordered her mother's execution.

7  -  The Final Cut - Catherine Coulter
(Debut)
Chief Inspector Nicholas Drummond of Scotland Yard joins FBI Special agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich in a hunt for an international jewel thief.  The first volume in a new series.

6  -  Bleeding Edge - Thomas Pynchon
(Debut)
A fraud investigator and Upper West Side mom looks into a suspicious computer security company in 2001.

5  -  Never Go Back - Lee Child
(3 weeks on list)

4  -  W is for Wasted - Sue Grafton
(2 weeks on list) (Last week #1)
A homeless man inexplicably leaves $600,000 to Kinsey Millhone.

3  -  Thankless in Death - J.D. Robb
(Debut)
Lt Eve Dallas searches for a young man who murdered his parents.

2  -  The Quest - Nelson DeMille
(Debut)
Two Jouralist join an elderly preist who has recently escaped from an Ethiopian jail in a search for a holy relic.

1  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(DEBUT)
The lives of two couples converge unexpectedly

NY Times Bestseller List - NonFiction (09/22/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Non Fiction

Week Ending September 22nd  2013

10 - Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
(145 weeks on list)

9  -  The Duck Commander Family - Willie and Korie Robertson w/Mark Schlabach
(23 weeks on list)

8  -  Lawrence In Arabia - Scott Anderson
(5 weeks on list)

7  -  This Town - Mark Leibovich
(8 weeks on list)

6  -  Salinger - David Shields and Shane Salerno
(Debut)
An oral history of the writer, a companion volume to the recently released documentary.

5  -  Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell
(26 weeks on list)

4  -  Zealot - Reza Aslan
(8 weeks on list)

3  -  Happy, Happy, Happy - Phil Robertson w/Mark Schlabach
(18 weeks on list)

2  -  The Liberty Amendments - Mark Levin
(4 weeks on list)  (3 weeks at #1)

1  -  Si - Cology 1 - Si Robertson w/Mark Schlabach
(DEBUT)
Phil's youngest brother, retired from the Army, works in the Duck Commander workshop.

NY Times Bestseller List - Hardcover NonFiction

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardcover Non Fiction

Week Ending September 1st 2013

10 - These Few Precious Days - Christopher Andersen
(2 weeks on list)
The marriage of Jack and Jackie Kennedy, with emphasis on its final year.

9  -  Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedaris
(17 weeks on list)

8  -  Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
(142 weeks on list)

7  -  Lawrence In Arabia - Scott Anderson
(2 weeks on list)
A history of the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I focuses on T.E. Lawrence and other
international adventurers.

6  -  This Town - Mark Leibovich
(5 weeks on list)

5  -  Happy, Happy, Happy - Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach
(15 weeks on list)

4  -  Infiltrated - Jay W. Richards
(2nd week on list)
An argument that financial reformers have infiltrated American institutions and are waging war against free enterprise.

3  -  Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg and Nell Scovell
(23 weeks on list)

2  -  Zealot - Reza Aslan
(5 weeks on list)  (last week at #1)

1  -  Liberty Amendments - Mark Levin
(DEBUT)
The talk radio host and president of the Landmark Legal Foundation offers 11 proposals for returning to America's founding principles.

New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction (08/25/2013)

NY Times Bestseller List

Top Ten Hardback Fiction

Week Ending August 25th 2013

10 - The Companions - R.A. Salvatore
(Debut)
Book 1 of a new fantasy series, The Sundering.

9  -  The Ocean At The End Of The Lane - Neil Gaiman
(8th week on the list)

8  -  The Last Witness - W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV
(Debut)
The Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne searches for a crucial witness who has gone into hiding;
A Badge of Honor novel.

7  -  The English Girl - Daniel Silva
(4th week on list)

6  -  Hotshot - Julie Garwood
(Debut)
Surrounded by enemies who want her to fail in the resort business, Peyton Lockhart calls on Finn MacBain, a childhood friend who once save her life and is now and FBI agent.

5  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(62nd week on list)

4  -  And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
(12th week on list)

3  -  Inferno - Dan Brown
(13th week on list)

2  -  Mistress - James Patterson and David Ellis
(Debut)
When he begins to investigate a friend's mysterious death, a man discovers that she was leading a double life.

1  -  The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith 
(3rd consecutive week at #1) (4th week on list)
A detective probes a supermodel's suicide;  by J.K. Rowling writing pseudonymously.

New York Times Bestseller - Fiction 08/11/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending August 11th 2013

10 - The White Princess - Philippa Gregory
(Debut)
Elizabeth of York's marriage to Henry Tudor unites the warring houses, but divides the princess' loyalties.

9  -  Hidden Order - Brad Thor
(3 weeks on list)

8  -  First Sight - Danielle Steel
(2 weeks on list)

7  -  The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
(6 weeks on list)

6  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(60 weeks on list)

5  -  Light of the World - James Lee Burke
(Debut)
A savage killer follows the detective Dave Robicheaux and his family to a Montana ranch.

4  -  And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
(10 weeks on list)

3  -  The English Girl - Daniel Silva
(2 weeks on list) (Last week's #1)

2  -  Inferno - Dan Brown
(11 weeks on list)

1  -  The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
(2 weeks on list) (1st week at #1)
The struggling detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.  J.K. Rowling writing pseudonymously.

New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction (07/07/2013)

NY Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending July 7th 2013

(click on the debut titles to see in Amazon)

10 - The Eye of Moloch - Glenn Beck
(2 weeks on list)

9  -  Revenge Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
(3 weeks on list)

8  -  The Last Original Wife - Dorothea Benton Frank
(2 weeks on list)

7  -  The 9th Girl - Tami Hoag
(Debut)
Two Minneapolis detectives try to discover the identity of the city's ninth unidentified female murder victim of the year.

6  -  The Silver Star - Jeannette Walls
(2 week on list)

5  -  The Heist - Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
(Debut)
In the first of a new series, Kate O'Hare, an FBI special agent, teams up with Nicolas Fox, a handsome con man to catch a corrupt investment banker in hiding.

4  -  Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen
(2 weeks on list)

3  -  And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
(5 weeks on list)

2  -  Inferno - Dan Brown
(6 weeks on list)  (Last weeks #1)

1  -  The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
(DEBUT)
A middle-aged man recalls his lonely boyhood and his friendship with a remarkable girl.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction 05/12/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending May 12th 2013

10 - The Mystery Woman - Amanda Quick
(Debut)
The second book of a new Victorian paranormal series, Ladies of Lantern Street, by Jane Ann Krenta writing pseudonymously.

9  -  The Burgess Boys - Elizabeth Strout
(5 weeks on list)

8  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(47 weeks on list)

7  -  Daddy's Gone A Hunting - Mary Higgins Clark
(3 weeks on list)

6  -  Wedding Night - Sophie Kinsella
(Debut)
A woman tries to break up her sister's impulsive marriage.

5  -  Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
(4 weeks on list)

4  -  Paris - Edward Rutherford
(Debut)
Characters real and imaginary in the City of Lights.

3  -  Fly Away - Kristin Hannah
(Debut)
A woman must deal with her personal issues before she can keep her promise to help the family of her deceased friend.

2  -  Whiskey Beach - Nora Roberts
(2nd week on list)  (Last week's #1)

1  -  The Hit - David Baldacci
(DEBUT)
The government hitman Will Robie uncovers a serious threat as he attempts to take out a fellow assassin who has gone rogue.

New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction 04/28/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending April 28th 2013

10 - The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
(7 weeks on list)

9  -  Starting Now - Debbie Macomber
(2 weeks on list) (Last week at #1)

8  -  Six Years - Harlan Coben
(4 weeks on list)

7  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(45 weeks on list)

6  -  Manuscript Found In Accra - Paulo Coelho
(2 weeks on list)

5  -  The Burgess Boys - Elizabeth Strout
(3 weeks on list)

4  -  Unintended Consequences - Stuart Woods
(Debut)
The New York lawyer Stone Barrington discovers a shadowy network beneath the world of European wealth.

3  -  Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
(2 weeks on list)

2  -  Don't Go - Lisa Scottoline
(Debut)
An Army doctor returns from Afghanistan when his wife dies in what at first appears to be an accident and finds that his life is falling apart.

1  -  Daddy's Gone a Hunting - Mary Higgins Clark
(DEBUT)
Two sisters are threatened by a dark secret from their family's past.

New York Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 04/21/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending April 21st 2013

10 - Z - Therese Anne Fowler
(2 weeks on list)

9  -  A Week In Winter - Maeve Binchy
(8 weeks on list)

8  -  The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
(6 weeks on list)

7  -  Lover At Last - J.R. Ward
(2 weeks on list) (last week's #1)

6  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(44 weeks on list)

5  -  Six Years - Harlan Coben
(3 weeks on list)

4  -  The Burgess Boys - Elizabeth Strout
(2 weeks on list)

3  -  Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
(Debut)
A woman appears in different versions of the same events, centered on World War II.

2  -  Manuscript Found in Accra - Paulo Coelho
(Debut)
The wisdom of a wise man known as the Copt, set in Jerusalem just before the Crusaders' invasion of 1099.

1  -  Starting Now - Debbie Macomber
(DEBUT)
A Seattle lawyer loses her job and remakes her life; she finds support at the local knitting store.
A Blossom Street novel

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction April 7th 2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending April 7th 2013

10 - A Dance With Dragons - George R.R. Martin
(65 weeks on list)

9  -  The Dinner - Herman Koch
(6 weeks on list)

8  -  Halo : Silentium - Greg Bear
(DEBUT)
Book 3 of the Forerunner Saga

7  -  Breaking Point - C.J. Box
(2nd week on list)
The 13th novel featuring Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden.

6  -  The Striker - Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  A Week In Winter - Maeve Binchy
(6 weeks on list)

4  -  Alex Cross, Run - James Patterson
(5 weeks on list)

3  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(42 weeks on list)

2  -  The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
(4 weeks on list) (last week's #1)

1  -  Six Years - Harlan Coben
(DEBUT)
Six years after the woman he loved married another man, Jake Fisher discovers that neither she nor their life together were what they seemed and he sets out to uncover the truth.