THE NEW YORK TIMES   Best Sellers   Week of May 12, 2013
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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
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NON-FICTION Weeks
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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