New York Times Best Sellers

Fiction 1. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)

A psychological thriller set in London.

2. THE SHADOWS

by J. R. Ward (New American Library) Book 13 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

3. THE STRANGER

by Harlan Coben (Dutton) Characters’ lives begin to fall apart as a mysterious stranger discloses secrets to them; a stand-alone thriller.

4. 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.

5. THE PATRIOT THREAT

by Steve Berry (Minotaur) The former government operative Cotton Malone searches for a North Korean who may have acquired Treasury Department files.

6. AT THE WATER’S EDGE

by Sara Gruen (Spiegel & Grau) A Philadelphia socialite travels to the Scottish Highlands with her husband and his friend, who are searching for the Loch Ness monster; she falls in love with the countryside and its people and uncovers secrets about her husband and family.

7. A SPOOLOF BLUE THREAD

by Anne Tyler (Knopf)

8. THE NIGHTINGALE

by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s)

9. THE BURIED GIANT

by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)

10. NYPD RED 3

by James Patterson and Marshall Karp (Little, Brown)

Nonfiction 1. DEAD WAKE

by Erik Larson. (Crown)

The last voyage of the Lusitania, by the author of “The Devil in the White City.”

2. BEING MORTAL

by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan/ Holt) The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life and how they can do better.

3. BECOMING STEVE JOBS

by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli (Crown Business) Jobs, who started out as a brash young genius, developed a more mature management style.

4. H IS FOR HAWK

by Helen Macdonald (Grove) A grief-stricken British woman decides to raise a goshawk, a fierce bird that is notoriously difficult to tame.

5. KILLING PATTON

by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt) The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the death of Gen. George S. Patton in December 1945.

6. INDEFENSE OFA LIBERAL EDUCATION

by Fareed Zakaria (Norton) A case for the centrality of the curriculum in the sciences and humanities.

7. YES PLEASE

by Amy Poehler (Dey Street/ Morrow)

8. HERETIC

by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Harper)

9. WHAT IF?

by Randall Munroe (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

10. PIONEER GIRL

by Laura Ingalls Wilder (South Dakota Historical Society)