The New York Times Paperback best-sellers (Oct 20, 2013)
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FICTION
1. THE RACKETEER, by John Grisham. (Dell)
An imprisoned ex-lawyer schemes to exchange information about a murdered federal judge for his freedom.
2. ENDER’S GAME, by Orson Scott Card. (Tor)
To defend against a hostile alien race, child geniuses are bred and trained as soldiers.
3. MAD RIVER, by John Sandford. (Berkley)
Investigator Virgil Flowers joins the hunt for a teenage Bonnie and Clyde in rural Minnesota.
4. PRIVATE LONDON, by James Patterson and Mark Pearson. (Vision)
Women are being abducted in London, and two investigators, former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter and his ex-wife, Kirsty Webb, are in a race against the odds.
5. ONE LUCKY VAMPIRE, by Lynsay Sands. (Avon/HarperCollins)
Jake has barely had time to adjust to being a vampire before he’s roped into playing bodyguard to a beautiful artist.
6. THE FORGOTTEN, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central)
An Army agent investigates his aunt’s death in a picture-perfect town on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
7. THE BONE BED, by Patricia Cornwell. (Berkley)
A paleontologist disappears in Canada, and the only evidence makes its way to Boston and chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.
8. LOVER AT LAST, by JR Ward. (Signet)
Fate seems to have taken vampire soldiers Qhuinn and Blay in different directions.
9. MIRROR, MIRROR, by JD Robb and others. (Jove)
Five authors offer new, otherworldly twists on classic fairy tales.
10. FINAL CATCALL, by Sofie Kelly. (Signet)
When the director of a theater festival is shot to death, librarian Kathleen Paulson must catch the killer, with help from her extraordinary cats.
NONFICTION
1. ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. (Spiegel & Grau)
A memoir by a Brooklyn woman whose relationship with a drug runner gets her a year in prison. The basis for the Netflix series.
2. PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander. (Simon & Schuster)
A neurosurgeon recounts his near-death experience in a coma from bacterial meningitis.
3. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown)
Why some people succeed: it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
4. QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Broadway)
Introverts — one-third of the population — are undervalued in American society.
5. HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED, by Paul Tough. (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
An argument that qualities that matter most have to do with character, not intelligence.
6. WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. (Vintage)
A woman’s account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail during the summer of 1995.
7. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner)
The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she was constantly moved.
8. BRAIN ON FIRE, by Susannah Cahalan. (Simon & Schuster)
Doctors struggle to discover why a young reporter suddenly experiences seizures, hallucinations and eventually near catatonia.
9. STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster)
Biography of the entrepreneur from interviews.
10. THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
How we make choices in life.
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