Fiction
| 1 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? | |
| 2 THE INN AT ROSE HARBOR, by Debbie Macomber. A young widow buys a bed-and-breakfast. | |
| 3 WHERE WE BELONG, by Emily Giffin. A woman’s successful life is disrupted by the appearance of an 18-year-old girl with a link to her past. | |
| 4 THE KINGMAKER’S DAUGHTER, by Philippa Gregory. Chicanery in the court of Edward IV, narrated by Anne Neville. | |
| 5 THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, by M. L. Stedman. An Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife decide to keep a baby who has washed ashore. | |
| 6 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.” | |
| 7 ODD APOCALYPSE, by Dean Koontz. Odd Thomas, who can communicate with the dead, explores the mysteries of an old estate now owned by a billionaire. | |
| 8 TIME UNTIME, by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Kateri Avani must face a Keetoowah warrior, and Ren Waya must come back from the dead to prevent the world from ending in this Dark-Hunter novel. | |
| 9 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. | |
| 10 FRIENDS FOREVER, by Danielle Steel. Three boys and two girls who meet in kindergarten maintain their bonds as they grow to adulthood. |
NonFiction
| 1 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. | |
| 2 THE AMATEUR, by Edward Klein. A journalist argues that President Obama is callow and unable to lead. | |
| 3 SOLO, by Hope Solo with Ann Killion. The goalkeeper for the U.S. women’s soccer team chronicles her career and hardscrabble upbringing. | |
| 4 WILD, by Cheryl Strayed.A woman’s account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. | |
| 5 OBAMA’S AMERICA, by Dinesh D’Souza. An argument that President Obama is the architect of American decline. | |
| 6 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. | |
| 7 DEARIE, by Bob Spitz. A biography of Julia Child, published to coincide with what would have been her 100th birthday. | |
| 8 DOUBLE CROSS, by Ben Macintyre. How the Allies tricked the Nazis into believing that on D-Day they would attack somewhere other than Normandy. | |
| 9 STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson. A biography of the entrepreneur and Apple visionary, who died in October 2011. | |
| 10 THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. A Times reporter’s account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits. |
