NY times Bestsellers 9/21/2014

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Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending September 6, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of inde-pendent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermar-ket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a books sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger () indicates that somebookstores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides;

journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK RE VIEW

Print Hardcover Best SellersCopyright 2014by The New York Times

September 21, 2014

THISWEEK

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WEEKSON LIST

LASTWEEK

1 1PERSONAL, by Lee Child. (Delacorte) Jack Reacher, a formermilitary cop, helps the State Department and the C.I.A. stop asniper who has targeted a G8 summit.

2 1SOMEWHERE SAFE WITH SOMEBODY GOOD, by Jan Karon.(Putnam) The Mitford character Father Tim Kavanagh returns tohis native town to find friends and family wrestling with difficulties.

3 1THE BONE CLOCKS, by David Mitchell. (Random House) Storiesfrom the medieval Swiss Alps to the 19th-century Australianbush to a hotel in Shanghai to Manhattan in the near future arestitched together.

4 1THE SECRET PLACE, by Tana French. (Viking) A clue to a murde ron the grounds of a girls school in the Dublin suburbs appears ona bulletin board, and Detectives Stephen Moran and AntoinetteConway investigate.

5 1THE EYE OF HEAVEN, by Clive Cussler and Russell Blake.(Putnam) The treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo discover a

Viking ship in the Arctic ice, full of artifacts from pre -ColumbianMexico.

6 2 4COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OFPILGRIMAGE, by Haruki Murakami. (Knopf) A young mansdifficult coming-of-age.

7 1 2THE LONG WAY HOME, by Louise Penny. (Minotaur) ChiefInspector Armand Gamache, retired from the Sret du Qubecand settled in the village of Three Pines, searches for a neighborsmissing husband.

8 3 46THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown) A paintingbecomes a boys prize, guilt and burden.

9 4 6BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam) Whowill end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children inthe same school become friends?

10 7 3MEAN STREAK, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central) A NorthCarolina pediatrician is held captive by a mysterious man.

11 * 8 18ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr. (Scribner)The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed Germanboy before and during World War II.

12 1DARK BLOOD, by Christine Feehan. (Berkley) In Book 26 (andpart of a sub-trilogy) of the Dark series, Zev, an elite warrior,wonders about the future of the Carpathians.

13 1SON OF NO ONE, by Sherrilyn Kenyon. (St. Martins) Book 18 ofthe Dark-Hunter novels finds Cadegan, who has been damned forcenturies, in pursuit of Josette Landry.

14 9 3WE ARE NOT OURSELVES, by Matthew Thomas. (Simon &Schuster) Three generations of a New York Irish-American familywrestle with economic and domestic aspirations and, finally, witha terrible disease.

15 6 3ADULTERY, by Paulo Coelho. (Knopf) A married journalist riskseverything when she embarks on an affair.

16 SHIFTING SHADOWS, by Patricia Briggs. (Ace)

17 MURDER 101, by Faye Kellerman. (Morrow)

18 ANGELS WALKING, by Karen Kingsbury. (Howard)

19 THE HUSBANDS SECRET, by Liane Moriarty. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam)

20 THE 6TH EXTINCTION, by James Rollins. (Morrow/HarperCollins)

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Print Paperback Best SellersSeptember 21, 2014Copyright 2014

by The New York Times

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending September 6, at many thousands of venueswhere a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundredsof independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); nation-al, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university,gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicatesthat a books sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger ()indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories notactively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference andtest preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; com-ics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books.

THISWEEK

THISWEEK

WEEKSON LIST

1 20GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Broadway) A woman disappearsfrom her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter,oddly evasive husband a killer?

2 55ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Kline. (Morrow/HarperCollins) A historical novel about orphans swept off thestreets of New York and sent to the Midwest in the 1920s.

3 320THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne/HarperCollins) Inthis fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search oftreasure and his destiny.

4 3SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. (Bantam) A sequel, aboutrace and inheritance, to A Time to Kill.

5 28THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Cen tral) Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man andwoman who have gone their separate ways return to their NorthCarolina town for the funeral of a friend.

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FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James. (Vintage) Aninexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured manwho has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy.

7 58DARK PLACES, by Gillian Flynn. (Broadway) A woman who, asa child, was spared when her mother and sisters were murderedbegins to reinvestigate the case against her imprisoned brother.

8 * 5OUTLANDER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Bantam) The first volume ofthe series featuring an 18th-century Scottish warrior and a WorldWar II-era nurse who has been sucked back across two centuriesto be at his side; first published in 1991.

9 6THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU, by Jonathan Tropper. (Plume) Aquirky family gathers for the Jewish ritual of sitting shiva after thedeath of its patriarch.

10 27AMERICANAH, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. (Anchor) Youngand in love, Ifemelu and Obinze leave military-ruled Nigeria for the

West. Ifemelu finds academic success in America, while Obinzeplunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.

11 THE ROSIE PROJECT, by Graeme Simsion. (Simon & Schuster)

12 AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead)

13 ME BEFORE YOU, by Jojo Moyes. (Penguin)

14 THE CUCKOOS CALLING, by Robert Galbraith. (Mulholland/Little, Brown)

15 PRIVATE DOWN UNDER, by James Patterson and Michael White.(Grand Central)

16 ACCEPTANCE, by Jeff VanderMeer. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

17 FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James. (Vintage)

18 THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT, by Amy Tan. (Ecco/HarperCollins)

19 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY, by Richard C. Morais. (Scribner)

20 THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, by Neil Gaiman.(Morrow/HarperCollins)

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Print Paperback Best Sellers

September 21, 2014Copyright 2014by The New York Times


THISWEEK

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WEEKSON LIST

1 3SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. (Dell) A sequel, about raceand inheritance, to A Time to Kill.

2 17THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man andwoman who have gone their separate ways return to their NorthCarolina town for the funeral of a friend.

3 13OUTLANDER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Dell) Book 1 of the seriesfeaturing Jamie Fraser, an 18th-century Scottish warrior, andClaire Randall, a World War II-era nurse who has been suckedback across two centuries to be at his side; first published in1991.

4 2GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Broadway) A woman disappearsfrom her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter,oddly evasive husband a killer?

5 2THE HOMECOMING, by Robyn Carr. (Harlequin Mira) After aterrible accident puts an end to his professional football career, ayoung man returns home to Thunder Point to face his mistakes.

6 1DUST, by Patricia Cornwell. (Berkley) The murder of a computerengineer at M.I.T. leads Kay Scarpetta, the chief medical examinerof Massachusetts, in unexpected directions.

7 4DRAGONFLY IN AMBER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Dell) Volume 2 ofthe Outlander series, about an 18th-century Scottish warrior anda time-traveling World War II-era nurse; first published in 1992.

8 5W IS FOR WASTED, by Sue Grafton. (Berkley) Kinsey Millhoneinvestigates two seemingly unrelated deaths: The first victimwas a shady P.I.; the second, a homeless man whos left Kinsey$600,000.

9 1THE MAYAN SECRETS, by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry.(Berkley) In Mexico the treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargodiscover a Mayan codex.

10 * 1THE FINAL CUT, by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison. (Jove)Nicholas Drummond, Scotland Yards new chief inspector, teamsup with the F.B.I. agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to huntfor an international jewel thief.

11 A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam)

12 THE WINTER LONG, by Seanan McGuire. (DAW)

13 A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam)

14 THE HOT ZONE, by Jayne Castle. (Jove)

15 TO LOVE AND PROTECT, by Debbie Macomber. (Harlequin MIRA)

16 12TH OF NEVER, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Vision)

17 KING AND MAXWELL, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central)

18 WINTER OF THE WORLD, by Ken Follett. (Signet)

19 VOYAGER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Dell)

20 INFERNO, by Dan Brown. (Anchor)

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Print Paperback Best SellersSeptember 21, 2014Copyright 2014

by The New York Times


THISWEEK

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WEEKSON LIST

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UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House) An Olympicrunners story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in WorldWar II after his plane went down over the Pacific.

2 15THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. (Penguin) A group of American rowers pursued gold at the 1 936 BerlinOlympic Games.

3 170OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown) Whysome people succeed it has to do with luck and opportunitiesas well as talent.

4 199HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent.(Thomas Nelson) A young boys encounter with Jesus and theangels.

5 76WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. (Vintage) A life-changing hike along thePacific Crest Trail.

6 87THE NEW JIM CROW, by Michelle Alexander. (New Press) A law

professor takes aim at the war on drugs and its impact on blackmen.

7 * 35THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House) Anexamination of the science behind habits, how we form them andbreak them.

8 57ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. (Spiegel &Grau) A memoir about a year in a womens prison. The basis forthe Netflix series.

9 * 84QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Broadway) Introverts approximatelyone-third of the population are undervalued in Americansociety.

10 1THE HEART OF EVERYTHING THAT IS, by Bob Drury and TomClavin. (Simon & Schuster) A biography of the influential Siouxleader Red Cloud examines his military prowess and the PlainsIndians changing way of life.

11THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by RebeccaSkloot. (Broadway)

12 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar,Straus & Giroux)

13 THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner)

14 BAD FEMINIST, by Roxane Gay. (Harper Perennial/HarperCollins)

15 THE OTHER WES MOORE, by Wes Moore. (Spiegel & Grau)

16 A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar,Straus & Giroux)

17 BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS, by Katherine Boo.(Random House)

18 LETS EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS, by David Sedaris.(Back Bay/Little, Brown)

19 PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander. (Simon & Schuster)

20 THE HOT ZONE, by Richard Preston. (Anchor)

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Best Sellers Advice, How-To and Misc


The category Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous Best Sellers includes both e-book and print book sales. An asterisk (*) indicates that a titles sales are barely distinguishable from thoseof the title ranked above. A dagger () indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.

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WEEKSON LIST

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WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE, by Oprah Winfrey. (Flatiron) Themedia queen discusses the essential components of an authenticlife.

2 74THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (Northfield)How to communicate love in a way a spouse will understand.

3 2100 DAYS OF REAL FOOD, by Lisa Leake. (Morrow/HarperCollins) Wholesome, family-friendly recipes that are easy toprepare. ()

4 17IT STARTS WITH FOOD, by Dallas Hartwig and Melissa Hartwig.(Victory Belt) A 30-day plan for sustaining wellness and balance.

5 4THE BEST YES, by Lysa TerKeurst. (Nelson Books/ThomasNelson) A spirituality-based guide to managing the multipledemands on busy lives.

6 1THE MYSTERY OF THE SHEMITAH, by Jonathan Cahn.(Charisma House) An ancient seven-year time cycle underlies andinfluences major world events. ()

7 1THE WISDOM OF OZ, by Roger Connors and Tom Smith.(Portfolio/Penguin) Achieving success through personalaccountability. ()

8 910-DAY GREEN SMOOTHIE CLEANSE, by JJ Smith. (Atria)Blended leafy greens and fruits are the basis for this weight-lossplan.

9 * 70WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOURE EXPECTING, by Heidi Murkoffand Sharon Mazel. (Workman) Advice for parents-to-be. ()

10 27EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM A LITTLEGOLDEN BOOK, by Diane E. Muldrow. (Golden Books) Tips fromthe childrens classics.

Advice THISWEEK WEEKS

ON LIST

11 GRAIN BRAIN, by David Perlmutter with Kristin Loberg. (Little,Brown)

12 DARING GREATLY, by Brene Brown. (Gotham)

13 THE GIFTS OF IMPERFECTION, by Brene Brown. (Hazelden)

14 #GIRLBOSS, by Sophia Amoruso. (Portfolio/Penguin/Putnam)

15 HOW TO BE PARISIAN WHEREVER YOU ARE, by Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline De Maigret and Sophie Mas. (Doubleday)

16 A LOVE AFFAIR WITH SOUTHERN COOKING, by Jean Anderson.(Morrow)

17 GROWING UP DUGGAR, by Jana, Jill, Jessa and Jinger Duggar.(Howard Books)

18 WHEAT BELLY, by William Davis. (Rodale)

19 THE FAST METABOLISM DIET, by Haylie Pomroy with Eve Adamson. (Harmony)

20 THE UNTETHERED SOUL, by Michael A. Singer. (New Harbinger/Noetic)

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Humor Best Sellers


The titles ranked in these Monthly Best Seller Lists are selected by the Best Seller List editors from among all adult nonfiction titles reported to The New York Times during August.These rankings reflect the combined print and e-book sales for the period of July 27 through August 30. More information on rankings and methodology: nytimes.com/books.

THISMONTH

1 IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME?, by Mindy Kaling.(Three Rivers.) The comedian and actress offers essays abouther life.

2 LETS EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS, by David Sedaris.(Little Brown.) Essays from the humorist on subjects like Frenchdentistry and a North Carolina Costco.

3 THE GRUMPY GUIDE TO LIFE, by Grumpy Cat Staff. (Chronicle.)More de-motivational messages from a notoriously grumpy cat.

4 MY DRUNK KITCHEN, by Hannah Hart. (Dey St./HarperCollins.)The companion volume to the online cooking and comedy series.

5 BOSSYPANTS, by Tina Fey. (Back Bay/Little Brown.) A memoirfrom the creator of 30 Rock.

6 HYPERBOLE AND A HALF, by Allie Brosh. (Touchstone.)Illustrated personal anecdotes from the author of the popularblog.

7 DIARY OF A MAD DIVA, by Joan Rivers. (Berkley.) Humorousreflections about life, pop culture and celebrities.

8 CANT WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT?, byRoz Chast. (Bloomsbury.) In this memoir, the cartoonist examinesher parents from their early days as mother and father to theirlater years facing old age and poor health.

9 HOW TO SURVIVE A SHARKNADO, by Andrew Shaffer. (ThreeRivers Press.) A spoof of conflated science fiction movies.

10 UGANDA BE KIDDING ME, by Chelsea Handler. (Grand Central.)Humorous travel stories.

Humor THISMONTH

11 DIRTY DADDY, by Bob Saget. (It Books/HarperCollins.)

12 SERIOUSLY... IM KIDDING, by Ellen DeGeneres. (Grand Central.)

13 LETS PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, by Jenny Lawson.(Berkley/Penguin.)

14 ADULTING, by Kelly Williams Brown. (Grand Central.)

15 POKING A DEAD FROG, by Mike Sacks. (Penguin.)

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Politics Best Sellers


The titles ranked in these Monthly Best Seller Lists are selected by the Best Seller List editors from among all adult nonfiction titles reported to The New York Times during August.These rankings reflect the combined print and e-book sales for the period of July 27 through August 30. More information on rankings and methodology: nytimes.com/books.

THISMONTH

1 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House.) An Olympicrunners story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in WorldWar II.

2 AMERICA, by Dinesh DSouza. (Regnery.) A defense of Americaagainst the view that its power in the world should be diminished;also a documentary film.

3 SPY AMONG FRIENDS, by Ben Macintyre. (Crown.) An accountof the British Cold War spy Kim Philby focuses on the two closefriends whose trust he betrayed.

4 ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. (Sentinel.)Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox Newscontributor, offers solutions to problems in health and educationbased on capitalism, not government.

5 PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS, by David McCullough. (Simon &Schuster.) A history of the creation of the Panama Canal; firstpublished in 1977.

6 FIRST FAMILY DETAIL, by Ronald Kessler. (Crown Forum.) Areporter divulges details from Secret Service agents about thelives of presidents, ex-presidents and candidates, as well as aboutthe services failings.

7 HARD CHOICES, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster.)Clintons memoir focuses on her years as secretary of state andher views about the American role in the world.

8 BLOOD FEUD, by Edward Klein. (Regnery.) A journalist describesanimosity behind the alliance between the Clinton and Obamafamilies.

9 NAZI OFFICERS WIFE, by Edith H. Beer with Susan Dworkin.(HarperCollins.) The story of a Jewish woman in 1930s Viennawho, with the help of friends, moved to Munich, hid her identityand married a Nazi Party member, thus saving her life.

10 I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. (Little,Brown.) The experience of the Pakistani girl who advocated forwomens education and was shot by the Taliban.

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Childrens Best Sellers


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WEEKSON LIST

WEEKON LISPicture Books Series

1 63THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT, by Drew Daywalt. Illustrated byOliver Jeffers. (Philomel) Problems arise when Duncans crayonsrevolt. (Ages 3 to 7)

2 153GOODNIGHT, GOODNIGHT, CONSTRUCTION SITE, by SherriDuskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld. (Chronicle) Trucks at sunset.(Ages 4 to 8)

3 156PRESS HERE, by Herv Tullet. (Handprint/Chronicle) A dance ofcolor. (Ages 4 to 8)

4 38DRAGONS LOVE TACOS, by Adam Rubin. Illustrated by DanielSalmieri. (Dial) What to serve your dragon-guests. (Ages 3 to 5)

5 107PETE THE CAT: I LOVE MY WHITE SHOES, by Eric Litwin.Illustrated by James Dean. (Harper/HarperCollins) Well-shod Petehas rainbows on his feet. (Ages 3 to 7)

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ROSIE REVERE, ENGINEER, by Andrea Beaty. Illustrated by DavidRoberts. (Abrams) A young inventor learns to fail better. (Ages 4to 8)

7 1OTIS AND THE SCARECROW, by Loren Long. (Philomel) Otis thetractor befriends a sullen scarecrow. (Ages 4 to 8)

8 5PETE THE CAT AND THE NEW GUY, by Kimberly Dean andJames Dean. (Harper/HarperCollins) Pete and his new friend, Gusthe platypus, search for an activity they can do together. (Ages 3to 7)

9 2LADYBUG GIRL AND THE DRESS-UP DILEMMA, by Jacky Davis.Illustrated by David Soman. (Dial) Lulu is determined to find theperfect costume for Halloween. (Ages 4 to 7)

10 1UNI THE UNICORN, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Illustrated byBrigette Barrager. (Random House) Uni believes that little girls doexist. (Ages 3 to 6)

1 100THE MAZE RUNNER, by James Dashner. (Random HousePublishing) Amnesiac teenagers endure a series of trials. (Ages12 and up)

2 46DIVERGENT, by Veronica Roth. (HarperCollins Publishers) A girlmust prove herself in a dystopia divided into five factions. (Ages14 and up)

3 55GIVER QUARTET, by Lois Lowry. (Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublishing) Exploring human connection in a postapocalypticworld. (Ages 12 to 18)

4 1THRONE OF GLASS, by Sarah J. Maas. (Bloomsbury) Celaenamust face the truth about her heritage while battling evil forcesthreatening her realm. (Ages 14 and up)

5 21I AM NUMBER FOUR, by Pittacus Lore. (HarperCollins Publishers)Members of another civilization live secretly among Earth-

dwellers. (Ages 14 to 17)

6 51CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS, written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey.(Scholastic) Boys and their principal fight evil. (Ages 7 to 10)

7 156THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS, by Cassandra Clare. (Simon &Schuster) A world of demons and warriors. (Ages 14 and up)

8 17THE SELECTION, by Kiera Cass. (HarperTeen) A competitionoffers girls a chance to escape a life laid out since birth. (Ages 13and up)

9 2EVER AFTER HIGH, by Shannon Hale. (Little, Brown) A group ofstudents must intervene when a curse is placed on the school.(Ages 8 to 12)

10 343PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS, by Rick Riordan. (DisneyPublishing Worldwide) A boy battles mythological monsters. (Ages9 to 12)

The categories of Middle Grade, Young Adult and Series include e-sales and print sales. Picture Book rankings are print only. An asterisk (*) indicates that a books sales are barely distin-guishable from those of the book above. A dagger () indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.


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Childrens Best Sellers


The categories of Middle Grade, Young Adult and Series include e-sales and print sales. Picture Book rankings are print only. An asterisk (*) indicates that a books sales are barely distin-guishable from those of the book above. A dagger () indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.

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WEEKON LISMiddle Grade Young Adult

1 93WONDER, by R. J. Palacio. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing) A boywith a facial deformity enters a mainstream school. (Ages 8 to 12)

2 3PERCY JACKSONS GREEK GODS, by Rick Riordan. Illustrated byJohn Rocco. (Disney Publishing Worldwide) The title hero offers apersonal tour of the pantheon. (Ages 10 to 14)

3 32A LONG WALK TO WATER, by Linda Sue Park. (Houghton MifflinHarcourt Publishing) A Sudanese tale of survival. (Ages 10 to 14)

4 3FRANK EINSTEIN AND THE ANTIMATTER MOTOR, by JonScieszka. Illustrated by Brian Biggs. (Abrams) A boy tries to win ascience prize to save his grandfathers fix-it shop. (Ages 8 to 12)

5 65THE CARE AND KEEPING OF YOU 1, by Valorie Schaefer.Illustrated by Josee Masse. (American Girl Publishing) Thechanging body. (Ages 8 to 12)

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THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, by Katherine Applegate.(HarperCollins Publishers) A gorilla living in a mall meets anelephant. (Ages 8 to 12)

7 14ESCAPE FROM MR. LEMONCELLOS LIBRARY, by ChrisGrabenstein. (Random House Publishing) A group is locked in afuturistic library. (Ages 9 to 12)

8 1TREASURE HUNTERS, by James Patterson and ChrisGrabenstein. Illustrated by Juliana Neufeld. (Little, Brown) Foursailor siblings contend with pirates and spies when searching fortheir missing parents. (Ages 8 to 12)

9 47OUT OF MY MIND, by Sharon M. Draper. (Simon & Schuster) Agirl longs to speak. (Ages 10 to 13)

10 6STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY, RETURN OF THE PADAWAN,by Jeffrey Brown. (Scholastic) A boy begins his second year oftraining. (Ages 8 to 12)

1 23IF I STAY, by Gayle Forman. (Penguin Group) A young cellist fallsinto a coma. (Ages 12 and up)

2 13WHERE SHE WENT, by Gayle Forman. (Penguin Group) A rockstar and a cellist reunite for an evening in New York City. (Ages 12and up)

3 93THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, by John Green. (Penguin Group) A16-year-old heroine faces the medical realities of cancer. (Ages14 and up)

4 93LOOKING FOR ALASKA, by John Green. (Penguin Group) A boyfinds excitement when he meets a girl named Alaska. (Ages 14to 17)

5 79PAPER TOWNS, by John Green. (Penguin Group) After a night ofmischief, the girl Quentin loves disappears. (Ages 14 and up)

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THE BOOK THIEF, by Markus Zusak. (Knopf DoubledayPublishing) A girl saves books from Nazi burning; now a movie.(Ages 14 and up)

7 40ELEANOR AND PARK, by Rainbow Rowell. (St. Martins Press)The world opposes the love of two outcast teenagers. (Ages 14to 18)

8 68MISS PEREGRINES HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN, byRansom Riggs. (Quirk Books) An island, an abandoned orphanageand a collection of curious photographs. (Ages 12 and up)

9 50THIRTEEN REASONS WHY, by Jay Asher. (Penguin Group) Beforeshe commits suicide, a girl sends recordings to 13 people. (Ages12 and up)

10 9THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, bySherman Alexie and Ellen Forney. (Little, Brown & Company) Aboy leaves his reservation to attend an all-white school. (Ages 12and up)

11 INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN, by Thanhha Lai. (HarperCollinsPublishers)

12 RUSH REVERE AND THE FIRST PATRIOTS, by Rush Limbaugh.(Simon & Schuster)

13 THE CARE AND KEEPING OF YOU 2, by Cara Natterson.Illustrated by Josee Masse. (American Girl Publishing)

14 FROZEN, by RH Disney. (Random House Publishing)

15 FLORA AND ULYSSES, by Kate DiCamillo. Illustrated by K. G.Campbell. (Candlewick)

Middle Grade Extended

11 AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES, by John Green. (PenguinGroup)

12 THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, by Stephen Chbosky.(Simon & Schuster)

13 THE RULE OF THOUGHTS, by James Dashner. (Random HousePublishing Group)

14 WE WERE LIARS, by E. Lockhart. (Delacorte Press)

15 HOLLOW CITY, by Ransom Riggs. (Quirk Books)

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THISWEEK

1 1PERSONAL, by Lee Child. (Delacorte) Jack Reacher, a formermilitary cop, helps the State Department and the C.I.A. stop a

sniper who has targeted a G8 summit.


Viking ship in the Arctic ice, full of artifacts from pre -ColumbianMexico.

3 1ONE MORE CHANCE, by Abbi Glines. (Atria) The story of Grantand Harlow continues; Book 7 in the Rosemary Beach series.


5 7 3MEAN STREAK, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central) A NorthCarolina pediatrician is held captive by a mysterious man whoforces her to question her life.


7 1THE SECRET PLACE, by Tana French. (Viking) A clue to a murde ron the grounds of a girls school in the Dublin suburbs appears ona bulletin board, and Detectives Stephen Moran and AntoinetteConway investigate.

8 6 7OUTLANDER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Dell) In this time travelromance, originally published in 1991, Claire Randall istransported back to 1743 during a second honeymoon in theScottish Highlands in 1945. There she falls for James Fraser, aredheaded soldier.


10 1COUNTDOWN, by Fern Michaels. (Kensington) The men in theSisterhoods lives join forces to see justice served.

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E-Book Best Sellers


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11 SON OF NO ONE, by Sherrilyn Kenyon. (St. Martins Press)

12 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown)



15 BLACK LIES, by Alessandra Torre. (Diversion Books)

16 DRAGONFLY IN AMBER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Dell)

17 PRIVATE DOWN UNDER, by James Patterson and Michael White.(Grand Central)

18 THE BONE CLOCKS, by David Mitchell. (Random House)

19 HAUNTED, by Kay Hooper. (Berkley)

20 THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown)

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Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 6, for books sold in both print and electronic formats as reported by vendors offering a wide range of titles. The venues for printbooks include independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket and discount departmentstores; and newsstands. E-book rankings reflect sales from leading online vendors of e-books. E-book sales are tracked for fiction and general nonfiction titles. E-book sales for advice &how-to books, childrens books and graphic books will be tracked at a future date. Titles are included regardless of whether they are published in both print and electronic formats or justone format. E-books available exclusively from a single vendor will be tracked at a future date. The universe of print book dealers is well established, and sales of print titles are statisti-cally weighted to represent all outlets nationwide. The universe of e-book publishers and vendors is rapidly emerging, and until the industry is settled sales of e-books will not be weight-ed. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, journals, workbooks, calo-rie counters, shopping guides, comics, crossword puzzles and self-published books. Publisher credits for e-books are listed under the corporate publishing name instead of by publishersdivision. Royalty Share, a firm that provides accounting services to publishers, is assisting The Times in its corroboration of e-book sales. An asterisk (*) indicates that a books sales arebarely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger () indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders. ( A full version of this method is on the combined list page ).

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1 1 33THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. (Viking) TheUniversity of Washingtons eight-oar crew and their quest for gold

at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

2 2 188UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House) An Olympicrunners story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in WorldWar II after his plane went down over the Pacific; the basis of amovie to be released later this year.

3 1WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Scientific (but often humorous) answers to hypothetical questions,based in part on the authors website, xkcd.com.

4 17 154HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent.(Thomas Nelson) A father recounts his 3-year-old sons encounterwith Jesus and the angels during an emergency appendectomy;the basis of the movie.

5 2DIARY OF A MAD DIVA, by Joan Rivers. (Berkley) Humorousreflections about life, pop culture and celebrities.

6 1UNPHILTERED, by Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach. (HowardBooks) What the Duck Commander (from the A&E show DuckDynasty) really thinks about various topics.

7 9 111WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. (Knopf) A womans account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike she took along the Pacific CrestTrail in 1995.

8 8 58ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. (Spiegel & Grau) A memoir by a Brooklyn woman whose relationship with a drugrunner gets her sentenced to a year in prison. The basis for theNetflix series, originally published in 2010.

9 1ELVIS AND GINGER, by Ginger Alden. (Berkley) Elvis Presleyslast love describes their relationship.

10 4 5THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS, by David McCullough. (Simon& Schuster) A history of the creation of the Panama Canal; firstpublished in 1977.

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11 THE NAZI OFFICERS WIFE, by Edith H. Beer with SusanDworkin. (HarperCollins)

12 IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE, by Hampton Sides. (Doubleday)

13 COMBAT AND OTHER SHENANIGANS, by Piers Platt. (Piers Platt)

14 QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Crown)

15 THE HANDS OF WAR, by Marione Ingram. (Skyhorse Publishing)

16 I HATE EVERYONE . . . STARTING WITH ME, by Joan Rivers.(Berkley)

17 LEVEL ZERO HEROES, by Michael Golembesky and John R.Bruning. (St. Martins Press)

18ALL JOY AND NO FUN, by Jennifer Senior. (Ecco/HarperCollins)

19 A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, by Ben Macintyre. (Crown)

20 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar,Straus & Giroux)

THISWEEK Nonfiction Extended

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 6, for books sold in both print and electronic formats as reported by vendors offering a wide range of titles. The venues for printbooks include independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket and discount departmentstores; and newsstands. E-book rankings reflect sales from leading online vendors of e-books. E-book sales are tracked for fiction and general nonfiction titles. E-book sales for advice &how-to books, childrens books and graphic books will be tracked at a future date. Titles are included regardless of whether they are published in both print and electronic formats or justone format. E-books available exclusively from a single vendor will be tracked at a future date. The universe of print book dealers is well established, and sales of print titles are statisti-cally weighted to represent all outlets nationwide. The universe of e-book publishers and vendors is rapidly emerging, and until the industry is settled sales of e-books will not be weight-ed. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, journals, workbooks, calo-rie counters, shopping guides, comics, crossword puzzles and self-published books. Publisher credits for e-books are listed under the corporate publishing name instead of by publishersdivision. Royalty Share, a firm that provides accounting services to publishers, is assisting The Times in its corroboration of e-book sales. An asterisk (*) indicates that a books sales arebarely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger () indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders. ( A full version of this method is on the combined list page ).

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1 1PERSONAL, by Lee Child. (Delacorte) Jack Reacher, a formermilitary cop, helps the State Department and the C.I.A. stop asniper who has targeted a G8 summit.



Viking ship in the Arctic ice, full of artifacts from pre- ColumbianMexico.

4 4 93GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown) A woman disappears on theday of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?

5 1THE SECRET PLACE, by Tana French. (Viking) A clue to a murderon the grounds of a girls school in the Dublin suburbs appears ona bulletin board, and Detectives Stephen Moran and AntoinetteConway investigate.

6 7 6OUTLANDER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Dell) Claire Randall, an Englishnurse, is transported back to 1743 during a second honeymoonin the Scottish Highlands. There she begins an affair with JamesFraser, a redheaded soldier. Originally published in 1991.

7 8 3MEAN STREAK, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central) A NorthCarolina pediatrician is held captive by a mysterious man whoforces her to question her life.



10 1THE BONE CLOCKS, by David Mitchell. (Random House) Storiesfrom the medieval Swiss Alps to the 19th-century Australianbush to a hotel in Shanghai to Manhattan in the near future arestitched together.

11 1ONE MORE CHANCE, by Abbi Glines. (Atria) The story of Grantand Harlow continues; Book 7 in the Rosemary Beach series.

12 1SON OF NO ONE, by Sherrilyn Kenyon. (St. Martins) Book 18 ofthe Dark-Hunter novels finds Cadegan, who has been damned forcenturies, in pursuit of Josette Landry.

13 1COUNTDOWN, by Fern Michaels. (Kensington) The men in theSisterhoods lives join forces to see justice served.

14 2THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man andwoman who have gone their separate ways return to their NorthCarolina town for the funeral of a friend.

15 9 26SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) A sequel, aboutrace and inheritance, to A Time to Kill.

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18 DRAGONFLY IN AMBER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Dell)

19 THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown)

20 ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Kline. (Morrow/HarperCollins)

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 6, for books sold in both print and electronic formats as reported by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Thesales venues for print books include independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket anddiscount department stores; and newsstands. E-book rankings reflect sales from leading online vendors of e-books in a variety of popular e-reader formats. E-book sales are tracked forfiction and general nonfiction titles. E-book sales for advice & how-to books, childrens books and graphic books will be tracked at a future date. Titles are included regardless of whetherthey are published in both print and electronic formats or just one format. E-books available exclusively from a single vendor will be tracked at a future date. The universe of print bookdealers is well established, and sales of print titles are statistically weighted to represent all outlets nationwide. The universe of e-book publishers and vendors is rapidly emerging, anduntil the industry is settled sales of e-books will not be weighted. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, ref-erence and test preparation guides, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, comics, crossword puzzles and self-published books. The appearance of a ranked title reflectsthe fact that sales data from reporting vendors has been provided to The Times and has satisfied commonly accepted industry standards of universal identification (such as ISBN13 andEISBN13 codes). Publishers and vendors of all ranked titles conformed in timely fashion to The New York Times Best Seller Lists requirement to allow for independent corroborationof sales for that week. Publisher credits for e-books are listed under the corporate publishing name instead of by publishers division. Weekly sales of both print books and e-books arereported confidentially to The New York Times. The Best Seller Lists are prepared by the News Surveys and Election Analysis Department of The New York Times. Royalty Share, a firmthat provides accounting services to publishers, is assisting The Times in its corroboration of e-book sales. An asterisk (*) indicates that a books sales are barely distinguishable fromthose of the book above it. A dagger () indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

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1 1WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Scientific (but often humorous) answers to hypothetical questions,based in part on the authors website, xkcd.com.

2 1 169UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House) An Olympicrunners story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in WorldWar II.

3 2 16THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. (Viking) TheUniversity of Washingtons eight-oar crew and their quest for goldat the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

4 1UNPHILTERED, by Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach. (HowardBooks) What the Duck Commander (from the A&E show DuckDynasty) really thinks about various topics.

5 2DIARY OF A MAD DIVA, by Joan Rivers. (Berkley) Humorousreflections about life, pop culture and celebrities.

6 10 132HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent.(Thomas Nelson) A 3-year-olds encounter with Jesus during anappendectomy; the basis of the movie.

7 5 77WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. (Knopf) A womans account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail during thesummer of 1995.

8 6 5IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE, by Hampton Sides. (Doubleday) An1879 polar voyage gone terribly wrong.

9 4 36ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. (Spiegel &Grau) A Brooklyn womans prison memoir. The basis for the Netflixseries, originally published in 2010.

10 3 16ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. (Sentinel)Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox Newscontributor, offers solutions to problems in health and educationbased on capitalism, not government.

11 8 46OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown) Why some peoplesucceed; from the author of Blink and The Tipping Point.

12 11 37QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Crown) Introverts one-third of thepopulation are undervalued in American society.

13 1ELVIS AND GINGER, by Ginger Alden. (Berkley) Elvis Presleyslast love describes their relationship.

14 14 9AMERICA, by Dinesh DSouza. (Regnery) A defense of Americaagainst the view that its power in the world should be diminished;also a documentary film.

15 20THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar,Straus & Giroux) The winner of the Nobel in economic sciencediscusses how we make choices.

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16 THE ORGANIZED MIND, by Daniel J. Levitin. (Dutton)

17 THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS, by David McCullough. (Simon &Schuster)

18 A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, by Ben Macintyre. (Crown)

19 THE NAZI OFFICERS WIFE, by Edith H. Beer with Susan Dworkin.(Morrow)

20 LEVEL ZERO HEROES, by Michael Golembesky and John R.Bruning. (St. Martins Press)

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 6, for books sold in both print and electronic formats as reported by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Thesales venues for print books include independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket anddiscount department stores; and newsstands. E-book rankings reflect sales from leading online vendors of e-books in a variety of popular e-reader formats. E-book sales are tracked forfiction and general nonfiction titles. E-book sales for advice & how-to books, childrens books and graphic books will be tracked at a future date. Titles are included regardless of whetherthey are published in both print and electronic formats or just one format. E-books available exclusively from a single vendor will be tracked at a future date. The universe of print bookdealers is well established, and sales of print titles are statistically weighted to represent all outlets nationwide. The universe of e-book publishers and vendors is rapidly emerging, anduntil the industry is settled sales of e-books will not be weighted. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, ref-erence and test preparation guides, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, comics, crossword puzzles and self-published books. The appearance of a ranked title reflectsthe fact that sales data from reporting vendors has been provided to The Times and has satisfied commonly accepted industry standards of universal identification (such as ISBN13 andEISBN13 codes). Publishers and vendors of all ranked titles conformed in timely fashion to The New York Times Best Seller Lists requirement to allow for independent corroborationof sales for that week. Publisher credits for e-books are listed under the corporate publishing name instead of by publishers division. Weekly sales of both print books and e-books arereported confidentially to The New York Times. The Best Seller Lists are prepared by the News Surveys and Election Analysis Department of The New York Times. Royalty Share, a firmthat provides accounting services to publishers, is assisting The Times in its corroboration of e-book sales. An asterisk (*) indicates that a books sales are barely distinguishable fromthose of the book above it. A dagger () indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

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