NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) November 19th 2017

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending November 19th 2017

10 - In The Midst of Winter - Isabel Allende
(Debut)
The lives of a university professor, an undocumented worker and a Chilean academic intersect after a car accident during a snowstorm in Brooklyn.

9  -  Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
(5 weeks on list)
The first female diver a the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II tries to understand why her father disappeared.

8  -  A Column of Fire - Ken Follett
(8 weeks on list)

7  -  Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King and Owen King
(6 weeks on list)

6  -  Deep Freeze - John Sanford
(3 weeks on list)
Virgil Flowers is called to investigate in Trippton,MN., when a local bank's president is found dead in a nearly frozen river.

5  -  Uncommon Type - Tom Hanks
(3 weeks on list)
Seventeen short stories, each incorporating a typewriter by the Academy Award winning actor.

4  -  Twin Peaks : The Final Dossier - Mark Frost
(Debut)
Updated profiles on the residents of Twin Peaks are assembled by special agent Tamara Preston.

3  -  Origin - Dan Brown
(5 weeks on list) (3 weeks at#1)

2  -  Two Kinds of Truth - Michael Connelly
(Debut)
While he investigates the murder of two pharmacists, an old case comes back to haunt Harry Bosch.

1  -  The Rooster Bar - John Grisham
(2 weeks on list) (2 weeks at #1)
Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (04/24/2016)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending April 24th 2016

10 - The Summer Before the War - Helen Simonson
(3 weeks on list)

9 -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(101 weeks on list)

8  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
(58 weeks on list)

7  -  Family Jewels - Stuart Woods
(Debut)
In the 37th Stone Barrington novel, the lawyer becomes entangled in a mystery involving a wealthy divorcee's ex-husband.

6  -  Miller's Valley - Anna Quindlen
(Debut)
A young woman comes of age during an assault on the land and the people she loves.

5  -  The 14th Colony - Steve Berry
(Debut)
The covert operative Cotton Malone must thwart an agent loyal to the former Soviet Union.

4  -  Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben 
(3 weeks on list)  (#1 last week)

3  -  The Nest - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
(Debut)
Siblings in a dysfunctional New York family must grapple with a reduced inheritance.

2  -  The Beast - J.R. Ward
(Debut)
Book 14 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series

1  -  As Time Goes By - Mary Higgins Clark
(Debut)
Secrets emerge when a television journalist searching for her birth mother covers the trial of the widow of a wealthy doctor.

NY Times Bestseller List - Non Fiction (10/03/15)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Non Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending October 4th 2015

10 - Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
(14 weeks on list)

9  -  Accidental Saints - Nadia Bolz-Weber
(2 weeks on list)
A comic turned pastor documents encounters with grace and finding divinity in unlikely places.

8  -  Plunder and Deceit - Mark R. Levin 
(7 weeks on list) (6 weeks at #1)

7  - The Wright Brothers - David McCullough
(20 weeks on list)

6  -  Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
(50 weeks on list)

5  -  Killing The Messenger - David Brock
(Debut)
A former right-wing operative describes his transformation and passionately defends Hillary Clinton.

4  -  Fast Girl - Suzy Favor Hamilton
(Debut)
Bipolar disorder drove a former Olympic runner to become a high-prices Las Vegas escort until she received treatment.

3  -  The Art of the Memoir - Mary Karr
(Debut)
The author of "The Liars Club", "Cherry" and "Lit" offers instruction in memoir-writing and discusses her favorite writers' work.

2  -  Between The World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
(10 weeks on list) (last week's #1)

1  -  WHY NOT ME? - MINDY KALING
(DEBUT)
More personal essays from the comedian and actress.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) June 22nd 2014

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending June 22nd 2014

10 - China Dolls - Lisa See
(Debut)
Three Asian-American women meet in San Francisco in 1938 at the Forbidden City nightclub.

9  -  Save The Date - Mary Kay Andrews
(Debut)
A wedding florist tries to shore up her career with Savannah's society event of the season, but she has competition and other complications.

8  -  The Smoke at Dawn - Jeff Shaara
(Debut)
In the summer of 1863, the stage is set for a confrontation at Chattanooga that could determine the fate of the divided nation;  the third book in a series about the Civil War.

7  -  The One and Only - Emily Giffin
(3 weeks on list)

6  -  Midnight in Europe - Alan Furst
(Debut)
A Spanish lawyer working in Paris on the eve of World War II joins a mission to help the Republican troops.

5  -  A Shiver of Light - Laurell K. Hamilton
(Debut)
In the ninth Meredith Gentry paranormal romance, Merry must save herself and her triplets from Taranis, King of Light and Illusion.

4  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tarrtt
(33 weeks on list)

3  -  The Hurricane Sisters - Dorothea Benton Frank
(Debut)
Three generations of women endure a stormy summer in South Carolina's Lowcountry.

2  -  Skin Game - Jim Butcher
(2nd week on list)  (last week at #1)

1  -  Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King
(DEBUT)
A driver plows into a crowd at a job fair, killing eight.  The killer then taunts a suicidal ex-cop, who must stop another, deadlier attack.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 05/25/2014

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending May 25th 2014

10 - All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(Debut)
The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget obsessed German boy before and during World War II, when their paths eventually cross.

9  -  The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
(18 weeks on list)

8  -  Chestnut Street - Maeve Binchy
(3 weeks on list)

7  - The Collector - Nora Roberts
(4 weeks on list)

6  -  Natchez Burning - Greg Iles
(2 weeks on list)

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

4  -  The Target - David Baldacci
(3 weeks on list)

3  -  Walking On Water - Richard Paul Evans
(Debut)
In the fifth and final book of the "Walk" series, Alan reaches Key West.

2  -  Field of Prey - John Sanford
(Debut)
Lucas Davenport investigates when multiple bodies are found in the middle of the Minnesota cornfields.

1  -  Unlucky 13 - James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
(DEBUT)
With the return of a killer who was presumed dead, the San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club take action.

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 Fiction 09/15/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardcover Fiction

Week Ending September 15th 2013

10 - The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon
(2 weeks on list)
A young clairvoyant discovers her power in a dystopian England in 2059; the first pick of the "Today" show book club.

9  -  Night Film - Marisha Pessl
(2 weeks on list)
Investigators pursue a master horror film auteur after his daughter is found dead.

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

7  -  Bones of the Lost - Kathy Reichs
(Debut)
The investigation of a hit and run leads the forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan into the world of human trafficking;  16th novel in the series behind the show "Bones".

6  -  The Whole Enchilada - Diane Mott Davidson
(Debut)
Someone is stalking the caterer and sleuth Goldy Shhulz.

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

4  -  Mistress - James Patterson and David Ellis
(4 weeks on list)

3  -  Inferno - Dan Brown
(16 weeks on list)

2  -  The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
(7 weeks on list)

1  -  How The Light Gets In - Louise Penny
(DEBUT)
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec seeks refuge in the tiny mountain village of Three Pines.

New York Times Bestseller - NonFiction 08/11/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

NonFiction

Week Ending August 11th 2013

10 - The Duck Commander Family - Willie and Korie Robertson
(17 weeks on list)

9  -  Shirley Jones - Shirley Jones
(Debut)
A candid autobiography by the singer and actress who starred in the 1950s film versions of "Oklahoma" and
"Carousel" and in "The Partridge Family" in the 1970s.

8  -  Dad is Fat - Jim Gaffigan
(12 weeks on list)

7  -  Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedaris
(14 weeks on list)

6  -  Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
(139 weeks on list)

5  -  Breakpoint - Jeff Stibel
(Debut)
A neuroscientist and entrepreneur shows how the brain can act as a guide to understanding the future of the 
internet and the constellation of business and technologies that run on it.

4 -  Happy, Happy, Happy - Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach
(12 weeks on list)

3  -  This Town - Mark Leibovich
(2 weeks on list)

2  -  Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell
(20 weeks on list) (last weeks #1)

1  -  Zealot - Reza Aslan 
(2nd week on list) (first week at #1)
A "biography" of Jesus Christ presents him in the context of his times as the leader of a revolutionary movement.

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.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (05/26/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending May 26th 2013

10 - Robert B. Parker's Wonderland - Ace Atkins
(Debut)
Spenser uncovers plans to build a huge casino north of Boston; a continuation of the series by Parker, who died in 2010.

9  -  Daddy's Gone A Hunting - Mary Higgins Clark
(5 weeks on list)

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

7  -  Whiskey Beach - Nora Roberts
(4 weeks on list)

6  -  A Delicate Truth - John Le Carre
(Debut)
A young man investigates a private-public antiterrorist operation, supposedly a great success but actually a disaster.

5  -  A Step of Faith - Richard Paul Evans
(Debut)
In the fourth book of the "Walk" series, Alan faces new challenges on his walk to Key West.

4  -  The Hit - David Baldacci
(3 weeks on list)

3  -  12th of Never - James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
(2 weeks on list)  (Last week's #1)

2  -  Silken Prey - John Sandford
(Debut)
Lucas Davenport is drawn into the investigation of a Minnesota political scandal and the disappearance of an operative.

1  -  Dead Ever After - Charlaine Harrris
(DEBUT)
The telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse searches for the truth about the death of the former barmaid Arlene.

New York Times Bestseller List - NonFiction April 13th 2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Non Fiction

Week Ending April 13th 2013

10 - Those Angry Days - Lynne Olson
(Debut)
The Debate over American entry into World War II.

9  -  Higher Call - Adam Makos and Larry Alexander
(11 weeks on list)

8  -  Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
(124 weeks)

7  -  Soundtrack of My Life - Clive Davis w/Anthony DeCurtis
(6 weeks)

6  -  No Easy Day - Mark Owen w/Kevin Maurer
(30 weeks)

5  -  My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor
(11 weeks)

4  -  Killing Kennedy - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(26 weeks)

3  -  Sum It Up - Pat Summitt w/Sally Jenkins
(4 weeks)

2  -  Salt Sugar Fat - Michael Moss
(5 weeks)

1  -  Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg w/Nell Scovell
(3 weeks on list and 3 consecutive weeks at #1)

New York Times Bestseller List Fiction 04/13/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week ending April 13th 2013

10 - Z - Therese Anne Fowler
(Debut)
A novel based on the lives of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald

9  -  A Week in Winter - Maeve Binchy
(7 weeks on list)

8  -  Alex Cross, Run - James Patterson
(6 weeks)

7  -  The Golden Egg - Donna Leon
(Debut)
Venice's Commissario Guido Brunetti looks into the suspicious death of a deaf and mentally disabled man.

6  -  The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
(5 weeks)

5  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(43 weeks)

4  -  Leaving Everything Most Loved - Jacqueline Winspear
(Debut)
(In 1933, the private investigator Maisie Dobbs helps an Indian man whose sister's murder has been ignored by Scotland Yard.

3  -  The Burgess Boys - Elizabeth Strout 
(Debut)
Two brothers, both lawyers, come together in a small Maine town to defend their good for nothing nephew.

2  -  Six Years - Harlan Coben
(2 weeks on list) (last week's #1)

1  -  Lover At Last - J.R. Ward
(DEBUT)
Book 11 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction 03/24/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending March 24th 2013

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10 - The Last Threshold - R.A. Salvatore
(Debut)
Book 4 of the fantasy Neverwinter Saga.

9  -  Calculated in Death - J.D. Robb
(2 weeks on list)
(last week's #1)

8  -  The Chance - Karen Kingsbury
(Debut)
Teenage friends, separated by a move, come together as adults to see whether they can find love.

7  -  Damascus Countdown - Joel Rosenberg
(Debut)
C.I.A. operative searches for two nuclear warheads that survived an Israeli attack on Iran.

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

5  -  A Week in Winter - Maeve Binchy
(4 weeks on list)

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

3  -  The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
(2 weeks on list)

2  -  The Striker - Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
(Debut)
In 1902, the young detective Isaac Bell discovers that provocateurs, no the union members he was hired to investigate, are causing trouble in the coal mines.

1  -  Frost Burned - Patricia Briggs
(DEBUT)
The shape-shifter Mercy Thompson seeks assistance from an unlikely ally when her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam Hauptman, and the rest of his pack are abducted.

New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction 03/10/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending March 10th 2013

10 - Touch and Go - Lisa Gardner
(3 weeks on list)

9  -  The Sound of Broken Glass - Deborah Crombie
(Debut)
Detectives Gemma Jones and her husband, Duncan Kincaid, investigate when a respected barrister is found dead in a seedy London hotel; the 15th book in a series

8  -  Private Berlin - James Patterson
(5 weeks on list)

7  -  The Dinner - Herman Koch
(2 weeks on list)

6  -  Tenth of December - George Saunders
(7 weeks on list)

5  -  Guilt - Jonathan Kellerman
(2 weeks on list)

4  -  A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
(7 weeks on list)

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

2  -  A Week in Winter - Maeve Binchy
(2 weeks on list) (#1 last week)

1  -  Alex Cross, Run - James Patterson
(DEBUT)
While Alex Cross pursues a Washington serial killer (or killers?), someone is after him.

New York Times Bestseller List - NonFiction 03/10/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Non Fiction

Week Ending March 10th 2013

10 - Damn Few - Rorke Denver and Ellis Henican
(Debut)
An officer in the Nave SEALS describes the training program he runs.

9  -  No Easy Day - Mark Owen
(25 weeks on list)

8  -  America The Beautiful - Ben C. Carson And Candy Carson
(Debut)
A doctor explores what makes America great.

7  -  Francona - Terry Francona and Dan Shaughnessy
(5 weeks on list)

6  -  Coolidge - Amity Shlaes
(2nd week on list)
This biography reclaims the 30th Presidetn of the US as a conservative hero.

5  -  Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(74 weeks on list)

4  -  Killing Kennedy - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(21 weeks on list)

3  -  My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor
(6 weeks on list)

2  -  The Soundtrack of My Life - Clive Davis with Anthony DeCurtis
(Debut)
A memoir by the powerful music company executive.

1  -  American Sniper - Chris Kyle
(25 weeks on list)
A member of he Navy SEALs, recently shot to death in Texas, discusses his childhood, marriage and battlefield experiences.

New York Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 03/03/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending March 3rd 2013

10 - The Night Ranger - Alex Berenson
(Debut)
The former C.I.A. operative John Wells pitches in when four young Americans who work at a refugee camp in Somalia are hijacked by bandits.

9  -  The Dinner - Herman Koch
(Debut)
Two couples meet on an Amersterdam restaurant to discuss their sons' criminal activities.

8  -  Touch and Go - Lisa Garnder
(2 weeks on list)

7  -  Suspect - Robert Crais
(4 weeks on list)

6  -  Private Berlin - James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
(4 weeks on list)

5  -  A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
(6 weeks on list)

4  -  Guilt - Jonathan Kellerman
(Debut)
The LA psychologist-detective Alex Delaware and the detective Milo Sturgis turn their sights six decades into the past to pursue the story of a beautiful nurse and her lover.

3  -  Tenth of December - George Saunders
(6 weeks on list)

2  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(37 weeks on list)

1  -  A Week in Winter - Maeve Binchy
(DEBUT)
Guests at an inn by the sea on Ireland's west coast;  the final book by Binchy, who died in 2012.

New York Times Bestseller List - Non Fiction 02/10/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Non Fiction

Week Ending February 10th 2013

10 - The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond
(4th week on list)

9  - A Higher Call - Adam Makos w/Larry Alexander
(5th week)

8  - To Sell Is Human - Daniel H Pink
(2nd week)

7  - No Easy Day - Mark Owen w/Kevin Maurer
(21st week)

6  - Thomas Jefferson - John Meacham
(11th week)

5  -  Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly w/Martin Dugard
(70th week)

4  -  Killing Kennedy - Bill O'Reilly w/Martin Dugard
(17th week)

3  -  Going Clear - Lawrence Wright
(2nd week)

2  -  Francona - Terry Francona w/Dan Shaughnessy
(Debut)
The manager's Red Sox years.

1  -  My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor
(2nd week on list) (2nd consecutive week at #1)

New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction 02/10/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending February 10th 2013

10 - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie - Ayana Mathis
(7 weeks on list)

9  -  The Racketeer - John Grisham
(14 weeks)

8  -  The Third Bullet - Stephen Hunter
(2nd week)

7  -  The Fifth Assassin - Brad Meltzer
(2nd week)

6  -  Tenth of December - George Saunders
(3rd week)

5  -  Ever After - Kim Harrison
(Debut)
The witch Rachel Morgan and an unlikely ally battle a demon in order to prevent an apocalypse.

4  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(34 weeks)

3  -  Suspect - Robert Crais
(Debut)
A Los Angeles policeman and a German shepherd, both suffering from PTSD, search for the killers of the cop's partner.

2  -  A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
(Last week - #1) (3rd week on list)

1  -  Private Berlin - James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
(DEBUT)
A superstar agent at the German headquarters of an investigation firm disappears.

New York Times Bestseller List Non Fiction 02/03/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Non Fiction

Week Ending 02/03/2013

10 - Total Frat Move - W.R. Bolen
(Debut)
Fraternity humor

9  -  To Sell is Human - Daniel H Pink
(Debut)
Insights from social science about how to move others.

8  -  Thomas Jefferson - Jon Meacham
(10 weeks on list)

7  -  The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond
(3 weeks on list)

6  -  A Higher Call - Adam Makos w/Larry Alexander
(4 weeks on list)

5  -  Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(69 weeks on list)

4  -  No Easy Day - Mark Owen w/Kevin Maurer
(20 weeks on list)

3  -  Going Clear - Lawrence Wright 
(Debut)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the world of Scientology

2  -  Killing Kennedy - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(16 weeks on list)

1  -  My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor
(DEBUT)
The Supreme Court justice recalls growing up in the Bronx, attending Princeton, working for the Manhattan District Attorney's office and becoming a federal judge.

New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction 01/27/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Hardcover Fiction

Week Ending January 27th 2012

10 - Dream Eyes - Jayne Ann Krentz
(Debut)
A psychic counselor, returning to a small Oregon town after her mentor's suspicious death, is drawn to a psychic investigator with disturbing power;   a Dark Legacy novel.

9  -  The Racketeer - John Grisham   (12 weeks on list)

8  -  The Blood Gospel - James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell
(Debut)
A hunt for the truth about a shadowy ancient order and a book supposed to have been written in Christ's own hand and in his blood;  the first book in a series, The Order of the Sanguines.

7  -  The Twelve Tribes of Hattie - Ayana Mathis  (5 weeks on list)
Fifty some years in the life of an African-American family whose matriarch arrives in Philadelphia in 1923.

6  -  The Husband List - Janet Evanovich
(Debut)
In New York City in 1984, a wealthy young woman yearns for adventure and the love of an Irish-American with new money, rather than the titled Britons to whom her mother hopes to marry her off.

5  -  Collateral Damage - Stuart Woods
(Debut)
Back in New York, the lawyer Stone Barrington joins him former partner Holly Barker in pursuing a dangerous case.

4  -  Kinsey and Me - Sue Grafton
(Debut)
Stories about Grafton's character Kinsey Millhone as well as explorations of Grafton's own past.

3  -  Tenth of December - George Saunders 
(Debut)
Stories that take on the big questions.

2  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn   (32 weeks on list)

1  -  A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
(DEBUT)
The 14th and final novel in the Wheel of Time fantasy series.