Fiction & Nonfiction NYT Bestsellers

Fiction

	1 SHADOW OF NIGHT, by Deborah Harkness. An Oxford scholar/witch and a vampire geneticist pursue history, secrets and each other in Elizabethan London.
	2 I, MICHAEL BENNETT, by James Patterson. A New York detective takes refuge with his 10 children in an upstate cabin.
	3 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?
	4 BACKFIRE, by Catherine Coulter. The F.B.I. agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock investigate the murder of a judge.
	5 THE NEXT BEST THING, by Jennifer Weiner. A young woman who moves to Hollywood to make it in television finds success, but her life remains complicated.
	6 WICKED BUSINESS, by Janet Evanovich. The Salem, Mass., pastry chef Lizzy Tucker and her partner, Diesel, take up a quest for a powerful ancient relic.
	7 THE GREAT ESCAPE, by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. A young woman runs out on her wedding in search of herself — and a new man.
	8 A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin. After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of “A Song of Ice and Fire.”
	9 THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. In 1950s Barcelona, two friends pursue a secret from the early days of Franco’s dictatorship.
	10 NIGHT WATCH, by Linda Fairstein. The prosecutor Alexandra Cooper becomes involved when a wealthy man assaults a maid in a Manhattan hotel.

	1 WILD, by Cheryl Strayed.A woman’s account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
	2 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
	3 THE DREAM TEAM, by Jack McCallum. The 1992 U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team.
	4 THE AMATEUR, by Edward Klein. A journalist argues that President Obama is callow and unable to lead.
	5 KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
	6 COWARDS, by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe. The radio host and founder of GBTV discusses 13 lies that politicians, academics and the media perpetuate.
	7 THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. A Times reporter’s account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits.
	8 THE PRESIDENTS CLUB, by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy. Two journalists examine the relationships between presidents and their predecessors.
	9 MICK, by Christopher Andersen. Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll in the life of Michael Jagger.
	10 YES, CHEF, by Marcus Samuelsson. The award-winning chef discusses his career and recalls growing up as an Ethiopian child adopted by a Swedish family.