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Best Sellers

November 17, 2013

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Inside the List

Three of this week’s best-selling novelists could assemble a small but powerful law firm, if so inclined, called Grisham, Scottoline & Turow.

Editors’ Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.

Browse Past Lists

This Week    Last Week Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction Weeks
on List
1 1 KILLING JESUS, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt.) The host of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts the events leading up to Jesus' execution. 6
2 2 THINGS THAT MATTER, by Charles Krauthammer. (Crown Forum.) Three decades’ worth of essays from the conservative columnist. 2
3 3 DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown.) How disadvantages can work in our favor; from the author of "The Tipping Point" and "Outliers." 5
4 THE DEATH OF SANTINI, by Pat Conroy. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.) In this memoir, Conroy mourns the abusive father on whom “The Great Santini” was based. 1
5 4 I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. (Little, Brown.) The experience of the Pakistani girl who advocated for women’s education and was shot by the Taliban. 4
6 5 JOHNNY CARSON, by Henry Bushkin. (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.)  A recollection by Carson’s lawyer and confidant for 18 years. 3
7 PURE JOY, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte.) An appreciation of the dogs in Steel's life. 1
8 CRASH AND BURN, by Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza. (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster.) The comedian describes his experience with depression, addiction and recovery. 1
9 6 TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE, by Solomon Northup. (Various publishers.) The narrative, first published in 1853, of a freeman who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, and spent 12 years in bondage before escaping. The book is the basis of the recently released movie. 2
10 PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander. (Simon & Schuster.) A neurosurgeon recounts his near death experience during a coma from bacterial meningitis. 53
11 8 MY STORY, by Elizabeth Smart with Chris Stewart. (St. Martin's.) A woman kidnapped from her Utah home in 2002 at age 14 describes her captivity and rescue. 4
12 12 ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. (Spiegel & Grau.) A memoir by a Brooklyn woman whose relationship with a drug runner gets her sentenced to a year in prison. The basis for the Netflix series, originally published in 2010. 16
13 9 THE REASON I JUMP, by Naoki Higashida. (Random House.) A 13-year-old boy with autism answers questions. 5
14 7 40 CHANCES, by Howard G. Buffett and Howard W. Buffett. (Simon & Schuster.) What Warren Buffett’s son and grandson have learned in their efforts to feed the hungry. 2
15 A CRUEL AND SHOCKING ACT, by Philip Shenon. (Holt.) A journalist argues that the F.B.I., C.I.A. and others withheld information about Kennedy’s assassination from the Warren Commission.  1

Also Selling

  1. LEAN IN, by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell (Knopf)
  2. WHAT'S SO FUNNY?, by Tim Conway with Jane Scovell (Howard Books)
  3. ONE SUMMER, by Bill Bryson (Doubleday)
  4. SI-COLOGY 1, by Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach (Howard Books)
  5. HISTORY DECODED, by Brad Meltzer with Keith Ferrell (Workman)
  6. AN ASTRONAUT'S GUIDE TO LIFE ON EARTH, by Chris Hadfield (Little, Brown)
  7. KILLING KENNEDY, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt)
  8. HUMANS OF NEW YORK, by Brandon Stanton (St. Martin's)
  9. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)
  10. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)
About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the November 17, 2013 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending November 2, 2013.

An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

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