Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending September 6, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general

l 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 some
bookstores 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.
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September 21, 2014
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WEEK
THIS
WEEK
WEEKS
ON LIST
LAST
WEEK
1
1 PERSONAL, by Lee Child. (Delacorte) Jack Reacher, a former
military cop, helps the State Department and the C.I.A. stop a
sniper who has targeted a G8 summit.
2
1 SOMEWHERE SAFE WITH SOMEBODY GOOD, by Jan Karon.
(Putnam) The Mitford character Father Tim Kavanagh returns to
his native town to find friends and family wrestling with difficulties.
3
1 THE BONE CLOCKS, by David Mitchell. (Random House) Stories
from the medieval Swiss Alps to the 19th-century Australian
bush to a hotel in Shanghai to Manhattan in the near future are
stitched together.
4
1 THE SECRET PLACE, by Tana French. (Viking) A clue to a murder
on the grounds of a girls school in the Dublin suburbs appears on
a bulletin board, and Detectives Stephen Moran and Antoinette
Conway investigate.
5
1 THE 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-Columbian
Mexico.
6
2 4 COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF
PILGRIMAGE, by Haruki Murakami. (Knopf) A young mans
difficult coming-of-age.
7
1 2 THE LONG WAY HOME, by Louise Penny. (Minotaur) Chief
Inspector Armand Gamache, retired from the Sret du Qubec
and settled in the village of Three Pines, searches for a neighbors
missing husband.
8
3 46 THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown) A painting
becomes a boys prize, guilt and burden.
9
4 6 BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam) Who
will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in
the same school become friends?
10
7 3 MEAN STREAK, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central) A North
Carolina pediatrician is held captive by a mysterious man.
11
* 8 18 ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr. (Scribner)
The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German
boy before and during World War II.
12
1 DARK BLOOD, by Christine Feehan. (Berkley) In Book 26 (and
part of a sub-trilogy) of the Dark series, Zev, an elite warrior,
wonders about the future of the Carpathians.
13
1 SON OF NO ONE, by Sherrilyn Kenyon. (St. Martins) Book 18 of
the Dark-Hunter novels finds Cadegan, who has been damned for
centuries, in pursuit of Josette Landry.
14
9 3 WE ARE NOT OURSELVES, by Matthew Thomas. (Simon &
Schuster) Three generations of a New York Irish-American family
wrestle with economic and domestic aspirations and, finally, with
a terrible disease.
15
6 3 ADULTERY, by Paulo Coelho. (Knopf) A married journalist risks
everything 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)
Fiction Fiction Extended
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK RE VIEW
Print Hardcover Best Sellers
September 21, 2014 Copyright 2014
by The New York Times
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 some
bookstores 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.
THIS
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
WEEKS
ON LIST
LAST
WEEK
1
1 WHAT 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 UNPHILTERED, by Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach. (Howard
Books) What the Duck Commander (from the A&E show Duck
Dynasty) really thinks about various topics.
3
1 16 ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. (Sentinel)
Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox News
contributor, offers solutions to problems.
4
4 DIARY OF A MAD DIVA, by Joan Rivers. (Berkley) Humorous
reflections about life, pop culture and celebrities.
5
5 5 IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE, by Hampton Sides. (Doubleday) An
1879 polar voyage gone terribly wrong.
6
3 9 AMERICA, by Dinesh DSouza. (Regnery) A defense of America
against the view that its power in the world should be diminished;
also a documentary film.
7
4 3 THE ORGANIZED MIND, by Daniel J. Levitin. (Dutton) A professor
draws on research in neuroscience to explain how organization
can help us manage nformation in our lives.
8
1 THE TEACHER WARS, by Dana Goldstein. (Doubleday) A
journalist surveys the history of public school teaching and finds
that it sheds light on current controversies.
9
* 6 185 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House) An Olympic
runners story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World
War II.
10
16 16 THINK LIKE A FREAK, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen
J. Dubner. (Morrow/HarperCollins) How to solve problems
creatively, from the authors of Freakonomics.
11
2 3 THE WAY FORWARD, by Paul Ryan. (Twelve) The Wisconsin
representative and 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee
tells his personal story and describes plans to make government
simpler, smaller, smarter.
12
12 47 DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown) How
disadvantages can work in our favor.
13
* 8 22 CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by Thomas Piketty.
(Belknap/Harvard University) A French economist predicts
worsening inequality and proposes solutions.
14
13 5 THE FIRST FAMILY DETAIL, by Ronald Kessler. (Crown Forum)
A reporter divulges details from Secret Service agents about the
lives of presidents, ex-presidents and candidates, as well as about
the services failings.
15
10 3 EXCELLENT SHEEP, by William Deresiewicz. (Free Press) A
former professor denounces anxious, hoop-jumping students on a
track from elite universities to Wall Street.
16
* 14 6 A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, by Ben Macintyre. (Crown) An account
of the British Cold War spy Kim Philby focuses on the two close
friends whose trust he betrayed.
17
HARD CHOICES, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster)
18
ELVIS AND GINGER, by Ginger Alden. (Berkley)
19
FLASH BOYS, by Michael Lewis. (Norton)
20
I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. (Little,
Brown)
Nonfiction Nonfiction Extended
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Print Paperback Best Sellers
September 21, 2014
Copyright 2014
by The New York Times
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 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 (*) indicates
that 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 not
actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and
test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; com-
ics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/
books.
THIS
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
WEEKS
ON LIST
1
20 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Broadway) A woman disappears
from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter,
oddly evasive husband a killer?
2
55 ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Kline. (Morrow/
HarperCollins) A historical novel about orphans swept off the
streets of New York and sent to the Midwest in the 1920s.
3
320 THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne/HarperCollins) In
this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of
treasure and his destiny.
4
3 SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. (Bantam) A sequel, about
race and inheritance, to A Time to Kill.
5
28 THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) Twenty-
five years after their high school romance ended, a man and
woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North
Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.
6
123 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James. (Vintage) An
inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man
who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy.
7
58 DARK PLACES, by Gillian Flynn. (Broadway) A woman who, as
a child, was spared when her mother and sisters were murdered
begins to reinvestigate the case against her imprisoned brother.
8
* 5 OUTLANDER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Bantam) The first volume of
the series featuring an 18th-century Scottish warrior and a World
War II-era nurse who has been sucked back across two centuries
to be at his side; first published in 1991.
9
6 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU, by Jonathan Tropper. (Plume) A
quirky family gathers for the Jewish ritual of sitting shiva after the
death of its patriarch.
10
27 AMERICANAH, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. (Anchor) Young
and in love, Ifemelu and Obinze leave military-ruled Nigeria for the
West. Ifemelu finds academic success in America, while Obinze
plunges 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)
Trade Fiction Trade Fiction Extended
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Print Paperback Best Sellers
September 21, 2014 Copyright 2014
by The New York Times
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 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 (*) indicates
that 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 not
actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and
test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; com-
ics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/
books.
THIS
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
WEEKS
ON LIST
1
3 SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. (Dell) A sequel, about race
and inheritance, to A Time to Kill.
2
17 THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) Twenty-
five years after their high school romance ended, a man and
woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North
Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.
3
13 OUTLANDER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Dell) Book 1 of the series
featuring Jamie Fraser, an 18th-century Scottish warrior, and
Claire Randall, a World War II-era nurse who has been sucked
back across two centuries to be at his side; first published in
1991.
4
2 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Broadway) A woman disappears
from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter,
oddly evasive husband a killer?
5
2 THE HOMECOMING, by Robyn Carr. (Harlequin Mira) After a
terrible accident puts an end to his professional football career, a
young man returns home to Thunder Point to face his mistakes.
6
1 DUST, by Patricia Cornwell. (Berkley) The murder of a computer
engineer at M.I.T. leads Kay Scarpetta, the chief medical examiner
of Massachusetts, in unexpected directions.
7
4 DRAGONFLY IN AMBER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Dell) Volume 2 of
the Outlander series, about an 18th-century Scottish warrior and
a time-traveling World War II-era nurse; first published in 1992.
8
5 W IS FOR WASTED, by Sue Grafton. (Berkley) Kinsey Millhone
investigates two seemingly unrelated deaths: The first victim
was a shady P.I.; the second, a homeless man whos left Kinsey
$600,000.
9
1 THE MAYAN SECRETS, by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry.
(Berkley) In Mexico the treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo
discover a Mayan codex.
10
* 1 THE FINAL CUT, by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison. (Jove)
Nicholas Drummond, Scotland Yards new chief inspector, teams
up with the F.B.I. agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to hunt
for 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)
Mass-Market Fiction Mass-Market Extended
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Print Paperback Best Sellers
September 21, 2014 Copyright 2014
by The New York Times
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 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 (*) indicates
that 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 not
actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and
test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; com-
ics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/
books.
THIS
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
WEEKS
ON LIST
1
6 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House) An Olympic
runners story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World
War II after his plane went down over the Pacific.
2
15 THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. (Penguin)
A group of American rowers pursued gold at the 1936 Berlin
Olympic Games.
3
170 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
199 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent.
(Thomas Nelson) A young boys encounter with Jesus and the
angels.
5
76 WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. (Vintage) A life-changing hike along the
Pacific Crest Trail.
6
87 THE NEW JIM CROW, by Michelle Alexander. (New Press) A law
professor takes aim at the war on drugs and its impact on black
men.
7
* 35 THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House) An
examination of the science behind habits, how we form them and
break them.
8
57 ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. (Spiegel &
Grau) A memoir about a year in a womens prison. The basis for
the Netflix series.
9
* 84 QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Broadway) Introverts approximately
one-third of the population are undervalued in American
society.
10
1 THE HEART OF EVERYTHING THAT IS, by Bob Drury and Tom
Clavin. (Simon & Schuster) A biography of the influential Sioux
leader Red Cloud examines his military prowess and the Plains
Indians changing way of life.
11
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca
Skloot. (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)
Nonfiction Nonfiction Extended
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Best Sellers Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous
September 21, 2014 Copyright 2014
by The New York Times
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 those
of the title ranked above. A dagger () indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
THIS
WEEK
WEEKS
ON LIST
1
1 WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE, by Oprah Winfrey. (Flatiron) The
media queen discusses the essential components of an authentic
life.
2
74 THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (Northfield)
How to communicate love in a way a spouse will understand.
3
2 100 DAYS OF REAL FOOD, by Lisa Leake. (Morrow/
HarperCollins) Wholesome, family-friendly recipes that are easy to
prepare. (

)
4
17 IT STARTS WITH FOOD, by Dallas Hartwig and Melissa Hartwig.
(Victory Belt) A 30-day plan for sustaining wellness and balance.
5
4 THE BEST YES, by Lysa TerKeurst. (Nelson Books/Thomas
Nelson) A spirituality-based guide to managing the multiple
demands on busy lives.
6
1 THE MYSTERY OF THE SHEMITAH, by Jonathan Cahn.
(Charisma House) An ancient seven-year time cycle underlies and
influences major world events. (

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

)
8
9 10-DAY GREEN SMOOTHIE CLEANSE, by JJ Smith. (Atria)
Blended leafy greens and fruits are the basis for this weight-loss
plan.
9
* 70 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOURE EXPECTING, by Heidi Murkoff
and Sharon Mazel. (Workman) Advice for parents-to-be. (

)
10
27 EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM A LITTLE
GOLDEN BOOK, by Diane E. Muldrow. (Golden Books) Tips from
the childrens classics.
Advice
THIS
WEEK
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)
Advice Extended
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Humor Best Sellers
September 21, 2014 Copyright 2014
by The New York Times
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.
THIS
MONTH
1
IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME?, by Mindy Kaling.
(Three Rivers.) The comedian and actress offers essays about
her life.
2
LETS EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS, by David Sedaris.
(Little Brown.) Essays from the humorist on subjects like French
dentistry 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 memoir
from the creator of 30 Rock.
6
HYPERBOLE AND A HALF, by Allie Brosh. (Touchstone.)
Illustrated personal anecdotes from the author of the popular
blog.
7
DIARY OF A MAD DIVA, by Joan Rivers. (Berkley.) Humorous
reflections about life, pop culture and celebrities.
8
CANT WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT?, by
Roz Chast. (Bloomsbury.) In this memoir, the cartoonist examines
her parents from their early days as mother and father to their
later years facing old age and poor health.
9
HOW TO SURVIVE A SHARKNADO, by Andrew Shaffer. (Three
Rivers Press.) A spoof of conflated science fiction movies.
10
UGANDA BE KIDDING ME, by Chelsea Handler. (Grand Central.)
Humorous travel stories.
Humor
THIS
MONTH
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.)
Humor Extended
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Politics Best Sellers
September 21, 2014 Copyright 2014
by The New York Times
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.
THIS
MONTH
1
UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House.) An Olympic
runners story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World
War II.
2
AMERICA, by Dinesh DSouza. (Regnery.) A defense of America
against the view that its power in the world should be diminished;
also a documentary film.
3
SPY AMONG FRIENDS, by Ben Macintyre. (Crown.) An account
of the British Cold War spy Kim Philby focuses on the two close
friends whose trust he betrayed.
4
ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. (Sentinel.)
Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox News
contributor, offers solutions to problems in health and education
based on capitalism, not government.
5
PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS, by David McCullough. (Simon &
Schuster.) A history of the creation of the Panama Canal; first
published in 1977.
6
FIRST FAMILY DETAIL, by Ronald Kessler. (Crown Forum.) A
reporter divulges details from Secret Service agents about the
lives of presidents, ex-presidents and candidates, as well as about
the services failings.
7
HARD CHOICES, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster.)
Clintons memoir focuses on her years as secretary of state and
her views about the American role in the world.
8
BLOOD FEUD, by Edward Klein. (Regnery.) A journalist describes
animosity behind the alliance between the Clinton and Obama
families.
9
NAZI OFFICERS WIFE, by Edith H. Beer with Susan Dworkin.
(HarperCollins.) The story of a Jewish woman in 1930s Vienna
who, with the help of friends, moved to Munich, hid her identity
and 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 for
womens education and was shot by the Taliban.
Politics
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Childrens Best Sellers
September 21, 2014 Copyright 2014
by The New York Times
THIS
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
WEEKS
ON LIST
WEEKS
ON LIST
Picture Books Series
1
63 THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT, by Drew Daywalt. Illustrated by
Oliver Jeffers. (Philomel) Problems arise when Duncans crayons
revolt. (Ages 3 to 7)
2
153 GOODNIGHT, GOODNIGHT, CONSTRUCTION SITE, by Sherri
Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld. (Chronicle) Trucks at sunset.
(Ages 4 to 8)
3
156 PRESS HERE, by Herv Tullet. (Handprint/Chronicle) A dance of
color. (Ages 4 to 8)
4
38 DRAGONS LOVE TACOS, by Adam Rubin. Illustrated by Daniel
Salmieri. (Dial) What to serve your dragon-guests. (Ages 3 to 5)
5
107 PETE THE CAT: I LOVE MY WHITE SHOES, by Eric Litwin.
Illustrated by James Dean. (Harper/HarperCollins) Well-shod Pete
has rainbows on his feet. (Ages 3 to 7)
6
26 ROSIE REVERE, ENGINEER, by Andrea Beaty. Illustrated by David
Roberts. (Abrams) A young inventor learns to fail better. (Ages 4
to 8)
7
1 OTIS AND THE SCARECROW, by Loren Long. (Philomel) Otis the
tractor befriends a sullen scarecrow. (Ages 4 to 8)
8
5 PETE THE CAT AND THE NEW GUY, by Kimberly Dean and
James Dean. (Harper/HarperCollins) Pete and his new friend, Gus
the platypus, search for an activity they can do together. (Ages 3
to 7)
9
2 LADYBUG GIRL AND THE DRESS-UP DILEMMA, by Jacky Davis.
Illustrated by David Soman. (Dial) Lulu is determined to find the
perfect costume for Halloween. (Ages 4 to 7)
10
1 UNI THE UNICORN, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Illustrated by
Brigette Barrager. (Random House) Uni believes that little girls do
exist. (Ages 3 to 6)
1
100 THE MAZE RUNNER, by James Dashner. (Random House
Publishing) Amnesiac teenagers endure a series of trials. (Ages
12 and up)
2
46 DIVERGENT, by Veronica Roth. (HarperCollins Publishers) A girl
must prove herself in a dystopia divided into five factions. (Ages
14 and up)
3
55 GIVER QUARTET, by Lois Lowry. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publishing) Exploring human connection in a postapocalyptic
world. (Ages 12 to 18)
4
1 THRONE OF GLASS, by Sarah J. Maas. (Bloomsbury) Celaena
must face the truth about her heritage while battling evil forces
threatening her realm. (Ages 14 and up)
5
21 I AM NUMBER FOUR, by Pittacus Lore. (HarperCollins Publishers)
Members of another civilization live secretly among Earth-
dwellers. (Ages 14 to 17)
6
51 CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS, written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey.
(Scholastic) Boys and their principal fight evil. (Ages 7 to 10)
7
156 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS, by Cassandra Clare. (Simon &
Schuster) A world of demons and warriors. (Ages 14 and up)
8
17 THE SELECTION, by Kiera Cass. (HarperTeen) A competition
offers girls a chance to escape a life laid out since birth. (Ages 13
and up)
9
2 EVER AFTER HIGH, by Shannon Hale. (Little, Brown) A group of
students must intervene when a curse is placed on the school.
(Ages 8 to 12)
10
343 PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS, by Rick Riordan. (Disney
Publishing Worldwide) A boy battles mythological monsters. (Ages
9 to 12)
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guishable from those of the book above. A dagger () indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
THIS
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
WEEKS
ON LIST
WEEKS
ON LIST
Middle Grade Young Adult
1
93 WONDER, by R. J. Palacio. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing) A boy
with a facial deformity enters a mainstream school. (Ages 8 to 12)
2
3 PERCY JACKSONS GREEK GODS, by Rick Riordan. Illustrated by
John Rocco. (Disney Publishing Worldwide) The title hero offers a
personal tour of the pantheon. (Ages 10 to 14)
3
32 A LONG WALK TO WATER, by Linda Sue Park. (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt Publishing) A Sudanese tale of survival. (Ages 10 to 14)
4
3 FRANK EINSTEIN AND THE ANTIMATTER MOTOR, by Jon
Scieszka. Illustrated by Brian Biggs. (Abrams) A boy tries to win a
science prize to save his grandfathers fix-it shop. (Ages 8 to 12)
5
65 THE CARE AND KEEPING OF YOU 1, by Valorie Schaefer.
Illustrated by Josee Masse. (American Girl Publishing) The
changing body. (Ages 8 to 12)
6
82 THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, by Katherine Applegate.
(HarperCollins Publishers) A gorilla living in a mall meets an
elephant. (Ages 8 to 12)
7
14 ESCAPE FROM MR. LEMONCELLOS LIBRARY, by Chris
Grabenstein. (Random House Publishing) A group is locked in a
futuristic library. (Ages 9 to 12)
8
1 TREASURE HUNTERS, by James Patterson and Chris
Grabenstein. Illustrated by Juliana Neufeld. (Little, Brown) Four
sailor siblings contend with pirates and spies when searching for
their missing parents. (Ages 8 to 12)
9
47 OUT OF MY MIND, by Sharon M. Draper. (Simon & Schuster) A
girl longs to speak. (Ages 10 to 13)
10
6 STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY, RETURN OF THE PADAWAN,
by Jeffrey Brown. (Scholastic) A boy begins his second year of
training. (Ages 8 to 12)
1
23 IF I STAY, by Gayle Forman. (Penguin Group) A young cellist falls
into a coma. (Ages 12 and up)
2
13 WHERE SHE WENT, by Gayle Forman. (Penguin Group) A rock
star and a cellist reunite for an evening in New York City. (Ages 12
and up)
3
93 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, by John Green. (Penguin Group) A
16-year-old heroine faces the medical realities of cancer. (Ages
14 and up)
4
93 LOOKING FOR ALASKA, by John Green. (Penguin Group) A boy
finds excitement when he meets a girl named Alaska. (Ages 14
to 17)
5
79 PAPER TOWNS, by John Green. (Penguin Group) After a night of
mischief, the girl Quentin loves disappears. (Ages 14 and up)
6
92 THE BOOK THIEF, by Markus Zusak. (Knopf Doubleday
Publishing) A girl saves books from Nazi burning; now a movie.
(Ages 14 and up)
7
40 ELEANOR AND PARK, by Rainbow Rowell. (St. Martins Press)
The world opposes the love of two outcast teenagers. (Ages 14
to 18)
8
68 MISS PEREGRINES HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN, by
Ransom Riggs. (Quirk Books) An island, an abandoned orphanage
and a collection of curious photographs. (Ages 12 and up)
9
50 THIRTEEN REASONS WHY, by Jay Asher. (Penguin Group) Before
she commits suicide, a girl sends recordings to 13 people. (Ages
12 and up)
10
9 THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, by
Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney. (Little, Brown & Company) A
boy leaves his reservation to attend an all-white school. (Ages 12
and up)
11
INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN, by Thanhha Lai. (HarperCollins
Publishers)
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. (Penguin
Group)
12
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, by Stephen Chbosky.
(Simon & Schuster)
13
THE RULE OF THOUGHTS, by James Dashner. (Random House
Publishing Group)
14
WE WERE LIARS, by E. Lockhart. (Delacorte Press)
15
HOLLOW CITY, by Ransom Riggs. (Quirk Books)
Young Adult Extended
THIS
WEEK
1
1 PERSONAL, by Lee Child. (Delacorte) Jack Reacher, a former
military cop, helps the State Department and the C.I.A. stop a
sniper who has targeted a G8 summit.
2
1 THE 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-Columbian
Mexico.
3
1 ONE MORE CHANCE, by Abbi Glines. (Atria) The story of Grant
and Harlow continues; Book 7 in the Rosemary Beach series.
4
1 DARK BLOOD, by Christine Feehan. (Berkley) In Book 26 (and
part of a sub-trilogy) of the Dark series, Zev, an elite warrior,
wonders about the future of the Carpathians.
5
7 3 MEAN STREAK, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central) A North
Carolina pediatrician is held captive by a mysterious man who
forces her to question her life.
6
4 6 BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam) Who
will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in
the same school become friends?
7
1 THE SECRET PLACE, by Tana French. (Viking) A clue to a murder
on the grounds of a girls school in the Dublin suburbs appears on
a bulletin board, and Detectives Stephen Moran and Antoinette
Conway investigate.
8
6 7 OUTLANDER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Dell) In this time travel
romance, originally published in 1991, Claire Randall is
transported back to 1743 during a second honeymoon in the
Scottish Highlands in 1945. There she falls for James Fraser, a
redheaded soldier.
9
1 SOMEWHERE SAFE WITH SOMEBODY GOOD, by Jan Karon.
(Putnam) The Mitford character Father Tim Kavanagh returns to
his native town to find friends and family wrestling with difficulties.
10
1 COUNTDOWN, by Fern Michaels. (Kensington) The men in the
Sisterhoods lives join forces to see justice served.
Fiction
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WEEKS
ON LIST
11
SON OF NO ONE, by Sherrilyn Kenyon. (St. Martins Press)
12
GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown)
13
MURDER 101, by Faye Kellerman. (Morrow)
14
SHIFTING SHADOWS, by Patricia Briggs. (Ace)
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)
THIS
WEEK Fiction Extended
WEEKS
ON LIST
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 print
books include independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket and discount department
stores; 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 just
one 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 publishers
division. 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 are
barely 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).
LAST
WEEK
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
1
1 33 THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. (Viking) The
University of Washingtons eight-oar crew and their quest for gold
at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
2
2 188 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House) An Olympic
runners story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World
War II after his plane went down over the Pacific; the basis of a
movie to be released later this year.
3
1 WHAT 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
17 154 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent.
(Thomas Nelson) A father recounts his 3-year-old sons encounter
with Jesus and the angels during an emergency appendectomy;
the basis of the movie.
5
2 DIARY OF A MAD DIVA, by Joan Rivers. (Berkley) Humorous
reflections about life, pop culture and celebrities.
6
1 UNPHILTERED, by Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach. (Howard
Books) What the Duck Commander (from the A&E show Duck
Dynasty) really thinks about various topics.
7
9 111 WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. (Knopf) A womans account of the life-
changing 1,100-mile solo hike she took along the Pacific Crest
Trail in 1995.
8
8 58 ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. (Spiegel & Grau)
A memoir by a Brooklyn woman whose relationship with a drug
runner gets her sentenced to a year in prison. The basis for the
Netflix series, originally published in 2010.
9
1 ELVIS AND GINGER, by Ginger Alden. (Berkley) Elvis Presleys
last love describes their relationship.
10
4 5 THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS, by David McCullough. (Simon
& Schuster) A history of the creation of the Panama Canal; first
published in 1977.
Nonfiction
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WEEKS
ON LIST
11
THE NAZI OFFICERS WIFE, by Edith H. Beer with Susan
Dworkin. (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)
18
ALL 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)
THIS
WEEK 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 print
books include independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket and discount department
stores; 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 just
one 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 publishers
division. 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 are
barely 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).
WEEKS
ON LIST
LAST
WEEK
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
1
1 PERSONAL, by Lee Child. (Delacorte) Jack Reacher, a former
military cop, helps the State Department and the C.I.A. stop a
sniper who has targeted a G8 summit.
2
1 SOMEWHERE SAFE WITH SOMEBODY GOOD, by Jan Karon.
(Putnam) The Mitford character Father Tim Kavanagh returns to
his native town to find friends and family wrestling with difficulties.
3
1 THE 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-Columbian
Mexico.
4
4 93 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown) A woman disappears on the
day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?
5
1 THE SECRET PLACE, by Tana French. (Viking) A clue to a murder
on the grounds of a girls school in the Dublin suburbs appears on
a bulletin board, and Detectives Stephen Moran and Antoinette
Conway investigate.
6
7 6 OUTLANDER, by Diana Gabaldon. (Dell) Claire Randall, an English
nurse, is transported back to 1743 during a second honeymoon
in the Scottish Highlands. There she begins an affair with James
Fraser, a redheaded soldier. Originally published in 1991.
7
8 3 MEAN STREAK, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central) A North
Carolina pediatrician is held captive by a mysterious man who
forces her to question her life.
8
1 DARK BLOOD, by Christine Feehan. (Berkley) In Book 26 (and
part of a sub-trilogy) of the Dark series, Zev, an elite warrior,
wonders about the future of the Carpathians.
9
5 6 BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam) Who
will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in
the same school become friends?
10
1 THE BONE CLOCKS, by David Mitchell. (Random House) Stories
from the medieval Swiss Alps to the 19th-century Australian
bush to a hotel in Shanghai to Manhattan in the near future are
stitched together.
11
1 ONE MORE CHANCE, by Abbi Glines. (Atria) The story of Grant
and Harlow continues; Book 7 in the Rosemary Beach series.
12
1 SON OF NO ONE, by Sherrilyn Kenyon. (St. Martins) Book 18 of
the Dark-Hunter novels finds Cadegan, who has been damned for
centuries, in pursuit of Josette Landry.
13
1 COUNTDOWN, by Fern Michaels. (Kensington) The men in the
Sisterhoods lives join forces to see justice served.
14
2 THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) Twenty-
five years after their high school romance ended, a man and
woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North
Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.
15
9 26 SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) A sequel, about
race and inheritance, to A Time to Kill.
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16
MURDER 101, by Faye Kellerman. (Morrow)
17
SHIFTING SHADOWS, by Patricia Briggs. (Ace)
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. The
sales venues for print books include independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket and
discount 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 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 just one 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 statistically 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 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 reflects
the 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 and
EISBN13 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 corroboration
of 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 are
reported 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 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 are barely distinguishable from
those of the book above it. A dagger () indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.
WEEKS
ON LIST
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
1
1 WHAT 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
1 169 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House) An Olympic
runners story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World
War II.
3
2 16 THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. (Viking) The
University of Washingtons eight-oar crew and their quest for gold
at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
4
1 UNPHILTERED, by Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach. (Howard
Books) What the Duck Commander (from the A&E show Duck
Dynasty) really thinks about various topics.
5
2 DIARY OF A MAD DIVA, by Joan Rivers. (Berkley) Humorous
reflections about life, pop culture and celebrities.
6
10 132 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent.
(Thomas Nelson) A 3-year-olds encounter with Jesus during an
appendectomy; the basis of the movie.
7
5 77 WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. (Knopf) A womans account of a life-
changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail during the
summer of 1995.
8
6 5 IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE, by Hampton Sides. (Doubleday) An
1879 polar voyage gone terribly wrong.
9
4 36 ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. (Spiegel &
Grau) A Brooklyn womans prison memoir. The basis for the Netflix
series, originally published in 2010.
10
3 16 ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. (Sentinel)
Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox News
contributor, offers solutions to problems in health and education
based on capitalism, not government.
11
8 46 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown) Why some people
succeed; from the author of Blink and The Tipping Point.
12
11 37 QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Crown) Introverts one-third of the
population are undervalued in American society.
13
1 ELVIS AND GINGER, by Ginger Alden. (Berkley) Elvis Presleys
last love describes their relationship.
14
14 9 AMERICA, by Dinesh DSouza. (Regnery) A defense of America
against the view that its power in the world should be diminished;
also a documentary film.
15
20 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux) The winner of the Nobel in economic science
discusses 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. The
sales venues for print books include independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket and
discount 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 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 just one 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 statistically 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 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 reflects
the 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 and
EISBN13 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 corroboration
of 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 are
reported 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 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 are barely distinguishable from
those of the book above it. A dagger () indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.
WEEKS
ON LIST
LAST
WEEK
JONATHAN SWIFT: His Life and His World, by Leo
Damrosch. (Yale University, $22.) Swift (1667-1745)
distinguished himself as novelist (Gullivers
Travels), satirist (A Modest Proposal), essay-
ist, poet and political pamphleteer. Damroschs
commanding biography aims at sweeping away
misconceptions about Swifts parentage, love life
and moral and religious views many of which
were encouraged by Swift himself.
THE DARK ROAD, by Ma Jian. Translated by Flora Drew.
(Penguin, $17.) Ma Jian, whose previous books
include the Tiananmen-era novel Beijing Coma
and Stick Out Your Tongue, a collection of sto-
ries about Tibet, here depicts the tragic effects of
Chinas one-child policy in the rural hinterland.
When a young peasant becomes pregnant without
state permission, she and her husband take their
first child, a daughter, and find refuge on a rickety
houseboat on the Yangtze River.
MISS ANNE IN HARLEM: The White Women of the
Black Renaissance, by Carla Kaplan. (Harper Perennial,
$16.99.) In this revelatory cultural history, Kaplan
introduces the women given the collective
dismissive name Miss Anne who became
patrons of and participants in the Harlem Renais-
sance and raised hot-button issues of race, gen-
der, class and sexuality in the bargain.
LOOKAWAY, LOOKAWAY, by Wilton Barnhardt. (Pica-
dor, $16.) A family and a region are coming apart
in Barnhardts lacerating but affectionate satiri-
cal novel of the New South. Joseph B. (Duke)
Johnston and his wife, Jerene, sit near the apex of
society in Charlotte, N.C., but over the course of
a decade theyre sorely tried by a cast of charac-
ters including a rebellious, outspoken daughter;
a closeted son; and Jerenes brother, Gaston, an
acid-tongued, alcoholic novelist.
JAPAN 1941: Countdown to Infamy, by Eri Hotta.
(Vintage, $16.95.) Surveying the internal mechanics
of the Tokyo regime that planned and executed
the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hotta finds a web of
reckless incompetence and asks: Why did these
men military leaders, politicians, diplomats, the
emperor make a decision that was doomed from
the start?
LAST CAR OVER THE SAGAMORE BRIDGE: Stories,
by Peter Orner. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $15.) In 52
stories, most no longer than a few pages, Orner
presents a kaleidoscope of lives and experiences:
lovers at a Wyoming hotel in 1912; a weary Com-
munist in 1990s Prague; a daydreaming furniture
salesman in 1940s New England. Crystalline
sentences . . . transform the ordinary elements of
each story into an even more astonishing whole,
Lauren Groff wrote here.
WONDER OF WONDERS: A Cultural History of
Fiddler on the Roof, by Alisa Solomon. (Picador,
$22.) Roaming across cultures and time periods,
Solomon traces how and why the story of the
beleaguered milkman Tevye, the creation of the
Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, was reborn as
blockbuster entertainment and a global touch-
stone. Our reviewer, Marjorie Ingall, called Won-
der of Wonders as rich and dense as a chocolate
babka.
Ihsan Taylor
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK RE VIEW
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September 21, 2014 Copyright 2014
by The New York Times
Paperback Row
THIRTEEN DAYS IN SEPTEMBER: Carter, Begin, and
Sadat at Camp David, by Lawrence Wright. (Knopf,
$27.95.) How marathon sessions of bare-knuckle
diplomacy forged a framework for peace between
Israel and Egypt in 1978.
WORLD ORDER, by Henry Kissinger. (Penguin Press,
$36.) Kissingers elegant, wide-ranging cri de
coeur is a realpolitik warning for future genera-
tions from a skeptic steeped in the past.
THE MONOGRAM MURDERS: The New Agatha
Christie Hercule Poirot Mystery, by Sophie Hannah.
(Morrow/HarperCollins, $25.99.) In Hannahs fresh
and lively resuscitation, Poirot is still Poirot.
POLITICAL ORDER AND POLITICAL DECAY: From the
Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of
Democracy, by Francis Fukuyama. (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, $35.) The second volume of Fukuyamas
magnum opus on the fate of liberal democracy.
DE POTTERS GRAND TOUR, by Joanna Scott. (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, $26.) In this novel, based on Scotts
great-grandfather, an antiquities collectors wife
discovers that his life wasnt what it seemed.
MR. TALL: A Novella and Stories, by Tony Earley.
(Little, Brown, $25.) Earley finds room in this
elegiac collection for a skunk ape, a talking dog
and the surprising lives of ordinary people.
ACCEPTANCE, by Jeff VanderMeer. (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, paper, $15.) In the conclusion of the
Southern Reach trilogy, the mysterious eco-
system Area X yields more of its secrets.
STATION ELEVEN, by Emily St. John Mandel. (Knopf,
$24.95.) A traveling theater company looks for an
audience among a global pandemics survivors.
PLUNDERED HEARTS: New and Selected Poems,
by J. D. McClatchy. (Knopf, $28.95.) Offered in a voice
thats intimate, vulnerable, heartfelt.
The full reviews of these and other recent
books are on the web: nytimes.com/books.