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The New York Times Hardcover best-sellers (Jan 12, 2014)

FICTION

 

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

A sequel to “A Time to Kill.”

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

A small Michigan town is transformed when its residents receive calls said to be from heaven.

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

Now grown, Dan, the boy from “The Shining,” helps another threatened child with a gift.

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

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

5. 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.

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

Alex Cross’ family is threatened by a genius intent on proving he is the greatest mind in the history of crime.

7. THE LONGEST RIDE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central)

Lives of two couples converge unexpectedly.

8. INFERNO, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday)

Symbologist Robert Langdon, on the run in Florence, must decipher a series of codes.

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

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

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

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

 

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.

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 author of “Team of Rivals” explores relationships between Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and a muckraking press.

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

The story of the Pakistani girl who pressed for women’s education and was shot by Taliban.

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

Little-known stories from the American past.

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

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

9. ONE SUMMER, by Bill Bryson. (Doubleday)

The author of “A Short History of Nearly Everything” describes the events of the summer of 1927.

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

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

 




 

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