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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Best Sellers
Week of May 12, 2013
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| This Week |
FICTION | Weeks On List |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12TH OF NEVER, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. One week after the birth of her baby, Detective Lindsay Boxer must return to work to investigate a string of grisly murders; a Women’s Murder Club novel. | 1 |
| 2 | THE HIT, by David Baldacci. The government hitman Will Robie uncovers a serious threat as he attempts to take out a fellow assassin who has gone rogue. | 2 |
| 3 | WHISKEY BEACH, by Nora Roberts. A former criminal attorney who has been acquitted of his wife’s murder retreats to his family estate on a rocky New England cliff, where he is comforted by the house’s caretaker amid continuing danger. | 3 |
| 4 | BEST KEPT SECRET, by Jeffrey Archer. In Volume 3 of the Clifton Chronicles, the focus shifts to a new generation — Sebastian, the son of Harry and Emma Clifton. | 1 |
| 5 | NOS4A2, by Joe Hill. In a creepy battle between real and imaginary worlds, a brave biker chick is pitted against a ghoulish villain who lures children to a place where it is always Christmas. | 1 |
| 6 | DADDY'S GONE A HUNTING, by Mary Higgins Clark. Two sisters are threatened by a dark secret from their family's past. | 4 |
| 7 | GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? | 48 |
| 8 | FLY AWAY, by Kristin Hannah. A woman must deal with her personal issues before she can keep her promise to help the family of her deceased friend. | 2 |
| 9 | LIFE AFTER LIFE, by Kate Atkinson. A woman appears in different versions of the same events, centered on World War II. | 5 |
| 10 | PARIS, by Edward Rutherfurd. Characters real and imaginary in the City of Light. | 2 |
| 11 | THE BURGESS BOYS, by Elizabeth Strout. Two brothers, both lawyers, come together in a small Maine town to defend their good-for-nothing nephew; by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Olive Kitteridge.” | 6 |
| 12 | THE APPLE ORCHARD, by Susan Wiggs. When a woman inherits half a hundred-acre apple orchard in Sonoma County to be shared with a half-sister she never knew she had, she discovers the pleasures of family and love. | 1 |
| 13 | THE INTERESTINGS, by Meg Wolitzer. Six friends meet in the 1970s at a summer arts camp, and pursue success, and one another, over succeeding decades. | 4 |
| 14 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin. Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire." | 71 |
| 15 | WEDDING NIGHT, by Sophie Kinsella. A woman tries to break up her sister’s impulsive marriage. | 2 |
| This Week |
NON-FICTION | Weeks On List |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LEAN IN, by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell. The chief operating officer of Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence. | 8 |
| 2 | LET'S EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS, by David Sedaris. Essays from the humorist on subjects like French dentistry and a North Carolina Costco. | 2 |
| 3 | WAITING TO BE HEARD, by Amanda Knox. Knox, who was convicted of the murder of her roommate in 2009 when she was an American student in Italy, a conviction that was overturned in 2011, tells her story. | 1 |
| 4 | COOKED, by Michael Pollan. The writer masters recipes and argues that regaining control of cooking will make Americans healthier. | 2 |
| 5 | MY NEXT STEP, by Dave Liniger with Laura Morton. A businessman fights back from a staph infection that paralyzed him. | 2 |
| 6 | BUNKER HILL, by Nathaniel Philbrick. Eighteen months in pre-Revolutionary Boston, and the events leading up to the Battle of Bunker Hill. | 1 |
| 7 | THE NEW DIGITAL AGE, by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen. The promise and peril of the continuing information and technology revolution. | 2 |
| 8 | CARRIE AND ME, by Carol Burnett. The comedian recalls her oldest daughter, who died in 2002. | 4 |
| 9 | THE DUCK COMMANDER FAMILY, by Willie and Korie Robertson with Mark Schlabach. Behind the scenes at the A&E show “Duck Dynasty.” | 5 |
| 10 | UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. | 128 |
| 11 | DIRTY WARS, by Jeremy Scahill. America’s new covert wars, fought by secret commandos. | 2 |
| 12 | FROZEN IN TIME, by Mitchell Zuckoff. An account both of airmen’s fight for survival in the Arctic after a 1942 crash, and of a 2012 expedition to Greenland to find its crew. | 2 |
| 13 | GULP, by Mary Roach. A science writer’s pilgrimage down the digestive tract. | 5 |
| 14 | MOM & ME & MOM, by Maya Angelou. The developing reconciliation between the poet and her mother, who sent her to live with her grandmother at age 3. | 5 |
| 15 | I'LL SEE YOU AGAIN, by Jackie Hance with Janice Kaplan. The experience of a mother whose three daughters were killed when her sister-in-law drove the wrong way down the Taconic Parkway. | 2 |