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Best Sellers

October 26, 2014

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Inside the List

Marilynne Robinson, whose novel “Lila” is No. 4 on the hardcover fiction list, has found success agreeable. “A Pulitzer Prize is very reassuring, and that’s a fact.”

Browse Past Lists

This Week    Last Week Combined Print & E-Book Fiction Weeks
on List
1 1 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown.) A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? 98
2 DEADLINE, by John Sandford. (Putnam.) Dognappers and a murdered reporter draw the attention of the Minnesota investigator Virgil Flowers. 1
3 4 THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central.) Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, two classmates return to their North Carolina town for a funeral. 6
4 2 BURN, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown.) Detective Michael Bennett, back in New York City, investigates a peculiar crime in Harlem. 2
5 PARIS MATCH, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam.) In the 31st Stone Barrington novel, the New York lawyer encounters an old enemy in Paris. 1
6 7 STEPBROTHER DEAREST, by Penelope Ward. (Penelope Ward.) A bond, and an attraction, between two stepsiblings. 2
7 5 EDGE OF ETERNITY, by Ken Follett. (Dutton.) Five interrelated families grapple with the events of the 1960s through the 1980s; Book 3 of the Century Trilogy.  4
8 MR. MIRACLE, by Debbie Macomber. (Ballantine.) A guardian angel helps a young woman find a second chance; a Christmas novel. 1
9 REAPER'S STAND, by Joanna Wylde. (Berkley.) A woman responsible for her cousin's daughter needs help from the attractive president of Reaper's Motorcycle Club. 1
10 8 PERSONAL, by Lee Child. (Delacorte.) Jack Reacher, a former military cop, helps the State Department and the C.I.A. stop a sniper who has targeted a G8 summit.  6
11 14 DARK PLACES, by Gillian Flynn. (Broadway.) A woman who, as a child, was spared when her mother and sisters were murdered begins to reinvestigate the case against her imprisoned brother. 2
12 6 OUTLANDER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Dell.) Claire Randall, an English nurse, is transported back to 1743 during a second honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands. There she begins an affair with James Fraser, a redheaded soldier. Originally published in 1991. 11
13 ADDICTED, by Zane. (Simon & Schuster.) A young wife who compulsively pursues affairs ultimately seeks counseling to save her marriage. 1
14 SHARP OBJECTS, by Gillian Flynn. (Broadway.) Fresh from a stay at a psychiatric hospital, a newspaper reporter returns (reluctantly) to her hometown to cover the murders of two girls. 1
15 IMMORTAL, by J. R. Ward. (New American Library.) A fight for souls in the ultimate choice over good or evil, from the Fallen Angels series. 1

Also Selling

  1. BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty (Amy Einhorn/Putnam)
  2. KEEP ME SAFE, by Maya Banks (Avon)
  3. DRAGONFLY IN AMBER, by Diana Gabaldon (Dell)
  4. ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Kline (Morrow/HarperCollins)
  5. LILA, by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the October 26, 2014 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending October 11, 2014.

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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