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The New York Times Combined print and e-books best-sellers (Jan 5, 2014)

FICTION

 

1. SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. (Doubleday)

A sequel to “A Time to Kill.”

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

A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy’s prize, guilt and burden.

3. THE FIRST PHONE CALL FROM HEAVEN, by Mitch Albom. (Harper)

A small Michigan town is transformed when residents get phone calls said to be from heaven.

4. COMMAND AUTHORITY, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney. (Putnam)

President Jack Ryan and his son try to counter a threat in Clancy’s last novel before his death.

5. CROSS MY HEART, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown)

Alex Cross’ family is threatened.

6. DOCTOR SLEEP, by Stephen King. (Scribner)

Now grown up, Dan, the boy in “The Shining,” helps another child with a spectacular gift.

7. TAKEDOWN TWENTY, by Janet Evanovich. (Bantam)

New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum pursues a mobster on the lam.

8. THE GODS OF GUILT, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown)

Mickey Haller, aka the Lincoln lawyer, defends a “digital pimp” accused of murder.

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

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, former Secret Service agents, scrutinize the report of a soldier’s mysterious death in Afghanistan.

10. INFERNO, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday)

Symbologist Robert Langdon, on the run in Florence, must decipher a series of codes created by a Dante-loving scientist.

 

NONFICTION

 

1. THINGS THAT MATTER, by Charles Krauthammer. (Crown Forum)

Three decades’ worth of essays from the conservative columnist.

2. 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.

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.”

4. GEORGE WASHINGTON’S SECRET SIX, by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. (Sentinel)

The story of the Culper spy ring, which aided the American cause during the Revolution.

5. THE BULLY PULPIT, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. (Simon & Schuster)

The relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, and the activities of the muckraking press.

6. MIRACLES AND MASSACRES, by Glenn Beck with Kevin Balfe and Hannah Beck. (Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts)

Little-known stories from the American past.

7. LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson. (Little, Brown)

The only survivor of a Navy SEALs operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle.

8. I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. (Little, Brown)

The experience of the Pakistani girl advocated for women’s education and was shot by the Taliban.

9. HUMANS OF NEW YORK, by Brandon Stanton. (St Martin’s)

Four hundred color photos of New Yorkers, with brief commentary by Stanton.

10. LET ME OFF AT THE TOP!, by Ron Burgundy. (Crown Archetype)

A “memoir” of Will Ferrell’s anchorman character.


 

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