Monday, August 18, 2014

New York Times Best Seller List (8/17/2014)


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FICTION

1 BIG LITTLE LIES by Liane Moriarty
Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends?

2 THE HEIST by Daniel Silva
Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, must track down
a famous missing painting by Caravaggio.

3 TOM CLANCY: SUPPORT AND DEFEND by Mark Greaney
A Dominic Caruso novel, written in the tradition of Clancy, who died in October 2013.

4 THE BOOK OF LIFE by Deborah Harkness
In the conclusion to the All Souls trilogy, the Oxford scholar/witch Diana Bishop and the vampire
geneticist Matthew Clairmont return from Elizabethan London to the present.

5 THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt
A painting becomes a boy’s prize, guilt and burden.

6 FAST TRACK by Julie Garwood
A woman faces threats as she searches for the truth about her long-dead mother, aided by her
best friend’s attractive older brother.

7 A PERFECT LIFE by Danielle Steel
A successful TV anchor faces a young rival at work just as the long-kept secrets of her private
life are exposed.

8 ACT OF WAR by Brad Thor
The counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath undertakes two dangerous missions as America
faces an imminent attack.

9 ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr
The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II.

10 THE SILKWORM by Robert Galbraith
The private detective Cormoran Strike in literary London; a pseudonym of J. K. Rowling.

11 INVISIBLE by James Patterson 
A former F.B.I. researcher finds a link between scores of apparently unconnected unsolved cases.

12 MR. MERCEDES by Stephen King
A driver plows into a crowd, killing eight. The killer then taunts a suicidal ex-cop, who must stop
another, deadlier attack.

13 MAGIC BREAKS by Ilona Andrews
In the seventh Kate Daniels novel, Kate deals with paranormal politics in Atlanta as she prepares
the Pack for an attack.

14 TOP SECRET TWENTY-ONE by Janet Evanovich
The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum pursues a dealer who sells more than used cars.

15 WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon
Jamie Fraser and his family face challenges in the 18th and 20th centuries.

16 LUCKY US by Amy Bloom
The adventures and reinvented lives of two sisters in the 1940s.