Fiction & Nonfiction NYT Bestsellers

Fiction

	1 THE FALLEN ANGEL, by Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, discovers a global criminal enterprise behind a murder in Rome.
	2 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?
	3 I, MICHAEL BENNETT, by James Patterson. A New York detective takes refuge with his 10 children in an upstate cabin.
	4 SHADOW OF NIGHT, by Deborah Harkness. An Oxford scholar/witch and a vampire geneticist pursue history, secrets and each other in Elizabethan London.
	5 CREOLE BELLE, by James Lee Burke. The Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux hunts for a missing Cajun singer.
	6 BACKFIRE, by Catherine Coulter. The F.B.I. agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock investigate the murder of a judge.
	7 THE SANDCASTLE GIRLS, by Chris Bohjalian. A woman of Armenian descent pursues her family’s history and explores a World War I romance — and a secret.
	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 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.
	10 CLOSE YOUR EYES, by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen. Kendra Michaels, who developed investigative skills when she was blind for the first 20 years of her life, tracks a serial killer who murdered her ex-lover.

	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 AMATEUR, by Edward Klein. A journalist argues that President Obama is callow and unable to lead.
	4 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.
	5 THE DREAM TEAM, by Jack McCallum. The 1992 U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team.
	6 STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson. A biography of the entrepreneur and Apple visionary, who died in October 2011.
	7 THE MOBILE WAVE, by Michael Saylor. A high-tech entrepreneur discusses the transformative potential of mobile computing.
	8 A YEAR UP, by Gerald Chertavian. A former Wall Street banker describes the program he founded that trains young urban adults for jobs.
	9 THE COMMUNIST, by Paul Kengor. A professor at Grove City College argues that Frank Marshall Davis, an elderly black Communist whom Barack Obama met as a teenager in Honolulu, was his secret mentor.
	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.