Sunday, August 3, 2014

New York Times Best Seller List (8/3/2014)



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FICTION


1 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. 
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 ACT OF WAR by Brad Thor The counterterrorism operative 
Scot Harvath undertakes two dangerous missions as America faces an imminent 
attack. 
4 CUT AND THRUST by Stuart Woods
Complications abound as the New York lawyer Stone Barrington attends a political convention in Los Angeles. 

5 INVISIBLE by James Patterson
A former F.B.I. researcher finds a link between scores of apparently unconnected unsolved cases. 
6 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. 
7 THE SILKWORM by Robert Galbraith
The private detective Cormoran Strike in literary London; by J. K. Rowling, writing 
pseudonymously. 
8 TOP SECRET TWENTY-ONE by Janet Evanovich
The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum pursues a dealer who sells more than used cars. 
9 WAYFARING STRANGER by James Lee Burke
A man’s life is traced over decades, starting with his encounter, at age 16, with Bonnie and Clyde. 
10 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. 
11 POWER PLAY by Catherine Coulter
The F.B.I. agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are out to discover who is trying to kill the ambassador to Britain. 
12 SHOTS FIRED by C. J. Box
The stories in this first collection, four of them featuring Box’s character Joe Pickett, are set in Wyoming. 
13 WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD, by Diana Gabaldon
Jamie Fraser and his family face challenges in the 18th and 20th centuries. 

14 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. 
15 ALL FALL DOWN, by Jennifer Weiner
A woman becomes addicted to pain medication. 
16 THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd
A wealthy Charleston girl, Sarah Grimké, who will grow up to be an abolitionist, is given a slave for her 11th 
birthday.