Sunday, August 31, 2014

New York Times Best Seller List (8/31/2014)



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FICTION

1 COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE by Haruki 
Murakami. 

A young man’s difficult coming-of-age. 

2 LOVE LETTERS by Debbie Macomber

Three couples struggle with intimacy one summer at Cedar Cove’s 
Rose Harbor Inn. 

3 THE 6TH EXTINCTION by James Rollins 

The 10th Sigma Force novel offers Nazis, an ancient secret, a 
ticking nuclear clock and alien life-forms. 

4 BIG LITTLE LIES by Liane Moriarty

Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in 
the same school become friends? 

5 THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt 

A painting becomes a boy’s prize, guilt and burden. 

6 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. 

7 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. 

8 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. 

9 THE LOST ISLAND by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child 

Gideon Crew, scientist and thief, pursues an extraordinary treasure for his 
mysterious employer. 

10 THE MAGICIAN'S LAND, by Lev Grossman

Quentin, an exiled magician, tries a risky heist in the final 
installment of a trilogy. 

11 TOM CLANCY: SUPPORT AND DEFEND by Mark Greaney

A Dominic Caruso novel, written in the tradition of Clancy, 
who died in October 2013. 

12 THE SILKWORM by Robert Galbraith

The private detective Cormoran Strike in literary London. (J.K. Rowling writing 
pseudonymously).

13 FOOL'S ASSASSIN by Robin Hobb

In the first novel of a new fantasy trilogy, Fitz and the Fool, the hero of
the Farseer trilogy is living under an assumed name. 

14 WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon

Jamie Fraser and his family face challenges in the 18th and 20th centuries. 

15 THE HUSBAND'S SECRET by Liane Moriarty

A woman’s life is upended when she discovers a letter she was not meant to read. 

16 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.