New York Times Best Seller List (12/8/2013)

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FICTION

1 TAKEDOWN TWENTY by Janet Evanovich

The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum pursues a mobster on the lam.

2 KING AND MAXWELL by David Baldacci.

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, former Secret Service agents turned private investigators, scrutinize a
soldier’s mysterious death in Afghanistan.

3 SYCAMORE ROW by John Grisham

A sequel, about race and inheritance, to “A Time to Kill.”

4 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.

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 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.

7 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.

8 THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT by Amy Tan

The author of “The Joy Luck Club” follows mother and daughter courtesans over four decades.

9 S. by Doug Dorst

In a project conceived by the writer and director J.J. Abrams, the facsimile of a novel
published in 1949 encodes a mystery.

10 THE LONGEST RIDE by Nicholas Sparks

The lives of two couples converge unexpectedly.

11 WHITE FIRE by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Special Agent Pendergast discovers that long-ago killings may be related to arson at a Colorado
ski resort.

12 MIRAGE by Clive Cussler

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon probe the disappearance of an American destroyer in 1943.

13 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.

14 INFERNO by Dan Brown

The symbolog ist Robert Langdon, on the run in Florence, must decipher a series of codes created
by a Dante-loving scientist.

15 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.

16 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.