New York Times Best Seller List (12/1/13)

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FICTION


1 THE FIRST PHONE CALL FROM HEAVEN by Mitch Albom
A small Michigan town is transformed when its residents receive phone calls said to be
from heaven.

2 SYCAMORE ROW by John Grisham
A sequel, about race and inheritance, to “A Time to Kill.”

3 DUST by Patricia Cornwell
The murder of a computer engineer at M.I.T. leads the Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner
Kay Scarpetta in unexpected directions.

4 WHITE FIRE by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Special Agent Pendergast discovers that the killing of several miners 150 years ago may
be related to deadly arson attacks at a Colorado ski resort.

5 THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt
A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes
a boy’s prize, guilt and burden.

6 DOCTOR SLEEP by Stephen King
Now grown up, Dan, the boy with psycho-intuitive powers in “The Shining,” helps another
threatened child with a gift.

7 THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT by Amy Tan
The author of “The Joy Luck Club” follows mother and daughter courtesans over four decades.

8 THE LONGEST RIDE by Nicholas Sparks
The lives of two couples converge unexpectedly.

9 MIRAGE by Clive Cussler
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon probe the disappearance of an American destroyer in 1943.

10 THE ALL-GIRL FILLING STATION'S LAST REUNION by Fannie Flagg
A Southern woman’s search for the secrets of her mother’s past leads her to a gas station
run by four girls in the Midwest during World War II.

11 S. by Doug Dorst
In a project conceived by the writer and director J.J. Abrams, the facsimile of a novel
published in 1949 contains marginal annotations and various objects. Two of the annotators
begin to decode the novel's mystery.

12 TATIANA by Martin Cruz Smith
A dead translator’s coded notebook may hold the key to the murders of a muckraking journalist
and anoligarch in the former Soviet Union. Arkady Renko, a senior investigator in the
Moscow prosecutor’s office, is on the case.

13 WE ARE WATER by Wally Lamb
About to marry the woman who is her gallery owner, a divorced artist and mother must confront
secrets from her past.

14 IDENTICAL by Scott Turow
Paul Giannis, running for mayor of Kindle County, is accused of having played a role in
the murder of his twin brother's girlfriend.

15 THE LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton
A murder mystery set in 19th-century New Zealand; winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize.