Fiction & Nonfiction NYT Bestsellers

Fiction

	1 A WANTED MAN, by Lee Child. A carload of people involved in a conspiracy pick up a disheveled hitchhiker, Child’s vigilante hero Jack Reacher.
	2 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?
	3 THE TIME KEEPER, by Mitch Albom. A fable about the inventor of the world’s first clock, who returns to our world after centuries of banishment; from the author of “Tuesdays With Morrie.”
	4 DELUSION IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. Lt. Eve Dallas investigates a mass delusion at a bar her husband owns; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
	5 TELEGRAPH AVENUE, by Michael Chabon. Fathers and sons in Berkeley and Oakland, Calif.
	6 THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER, by Junot Díaz. Stories of love, loss and family history from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.
	7 ZOO, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. A young biologist warns world leaders about the reasons for escalating animal attacks on cities.
	8 FROZEN HEAT, by Richard Castle. The NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat investigates the case of a woman whose body is found in a freezer.
	9 THE TOMBS, by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry. Sam and Remi Fargo, a husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team, search for the tomb of Attila the Hun.
	10 ROBERT B. PARKER’S FOOL ME TWICE, by Michael Brandman. Jesse Stone, the chief of police in Paradise, Mass., deals with the arrest of a troubled movie star; a continuation of the series by Parker, who died in 2010.

	1 NO EASY DAY, by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. An account by a former member of the Navy SEALs, written pseudonymously, of the mission that killed bin Laden.
	2 THE PRICE OF POLITICS, by Bob Woodward. Inside the debt-ceiling negotations of 2011 with the Washington Post journalist.
	3 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.
	4 OBAMA’S AMERICA, by Dinesh D’Souza. An argument that President Obama is the architect of American decline.
	5 THE AMATEUR, by Edward Klein. A journalist argues that President Obama is callow and unable to lead.
	6 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
	7 MORTALITY, by Christopher Hitchens. Reports and reflections on his illness and impending death by the writer, who died in December 2011.
	8 WILD, by Cheryl Strayed.A woman’s account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
	9 HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED, by Paul Tough. The author argues that the qualities that matter most have to do with character, not intelligence.
	10 THE REVENGE OF GEOGRAPHY, by Robert D. Kaplan. Predicting the next cycle of conflict on the basis of temperature and topography.