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Best Sellers

August 19, 2012

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Inside the List

M. L. Stedman — whose novel “The Light Between Oceans” enters the list at No. 7 — really doesn’t like publicity.

Editors’ Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.

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1 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James. (Vintage, $15.95.) An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy. 21
2 FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James. (Vintage, $15.95.) Daunted by Christian’s dark secrets, Anastasia ends their relationship — but desire still dominates her every thought; the second book in a trilogy. 18
3 FIFTY SHADES FREED, by E. L. James. (Vintage, $15.95.) Reunited, Anastasia and Christian face a world of possibilities, and unexpected challenges; the final volume in a trilogy. 18
4 BARED TO YOU, by Sylvia Day. (Berkley, $15.) Eva and Gideon, recovering from difficult pasts, develop an intense, obsessive relationship. 8
5 11/22/63, by Stephen King. (Gallery Books, $19.99.) An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald, but he must first determine whether Oswald was guilty. 2
6 THE NIGHT CIRCUS, by Erin Morgenstern. (Anchor, $15.) At a magical circus that whirls through major cities at the turn of the 20th century, two young rivals become collaborators as they fall in love. 5
7 THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne, $14.99.) In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny. 230
8 A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, by Deborah Harkness. (Penguin, $16.) The recovery of a lost ancient manuscript in a library at Oxford sets a fantastical underworld stirring. 11
9 * MAINE, by J. Courtney Sullivan. (Vintage Contemporaries, $15.95.) Three generations of a family’s women take guilt, secrets and old wounds on a beach retreat. 10
10 CLOUD ATLAS, by David Mitchell. (Random House, $15.) Six linked stories span the planet and involve an array of characters and conflicts, from New Zealand in the mid-19th century with a stowaway Moriori, to a Belgian estate in the 1930s, to 1970s California with a plucky journalist named Luisa Rey. 1
11 RULES OF CIVILITY, by Amor Towles. (Penguin, $16.) A chance encounter and its consequences provide a 25-year-old woman access to the New York social circle in the 1930s. 6
12 * THE HARBINGER, by Jonathan Cahn. (FrontLine, $16.99.) A man tells of his encounters with a mysterious figure who has given him a series of messages that hold the secret of America’s future. 31
13 STATE OF WONDER, by Ann Patchett. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) In the Amazon basin, a medical researcher seeks her former mentor, a despotic scientist who is developing a miracle fertility drug. 13
14 * THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham. (Bantam, $16.) Partners in a small law firm take on a big case after a fast-track burnout joins them. 6
15 THE SENSE OF AN ENDING, by Julian Barnes. (Vintage International, $14.95.) An unexpected bequest causes a man in his 60s to question his understanding of the past; winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize. 10
16 * THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $14.) An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared. 102
17 THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. (Ballantine, $15.) A young woman’s gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others, even as she struggles with her own troubled past. 13
18 THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein. (Harper Paperbacks, $14.99.) An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver. 156
19 THE ART OF FIELDING, by Chad Harbach. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.99.) At a small college in Wisconsin, a gifted but vulnerable baseball player faces a crisis. 14
20 THE TIME IN BETWEEN, by Maria Duenas. (Atria, $16.) A dressmaker’s apprentice uses her talent and courage to transform herself — first into a prestigious couturier in Madrid and then into an undercover agent during World War II. 2

Also Selling

  1. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett (Berkley)
  2. PRIVATE GAMES, by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan (Grand Central)
  3. A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin (Bantam)
  4. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
  5. THE CLAIMING OF SLEEPING BEAUTY, by A. N. Roquelaure (Plume)
  6. THE KITCHEN HOUSE, by Kathleen Grissom (Touchstone)
  7. THE LAST BOYFRIEND, by Nora Roberts (Berkley)
  8. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, by Seth Grahame-Smith (Grand Central)
  9. CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)
  10. WOLF HALL, by Hilary Mantel (Picador)
  11. THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES, by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Plume)
  12. THE TIGER'S WIFE, by Téa Obreht (Random House)
  13. ON THE ISLAND, by Tracey Garvis Graves (Plume)
  14. THE FLIGHT OF GEMMA HARDY, by Margot Livesey (Harper Perennial)
  15. DARK PLACES, by Gillian Flynn (Broadway)
About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the August 19, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending August 4, 2012.

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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