New York Times Best sellers for fiction: October 19, 2014 This Week Last Week Hardcover Fiction Weeks on List 1 BURN, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown.) Detective Michael Bennett, back in New York City, investigates a peculiar crime in Harlem. 1 2 1 EDGE OF ETERNITY, by Ken Follett. (Dutton.) Five interrelated families from five countries grapple with the events of the 1960s through the 1980s; Book 3 of the Century Trilogy. 3 3 3 SOMEWHERE SAFE WITH SOMEBODY GOOD, by Jan Karon. (Putnam.) The Mitford character Father Tim finds friends and family wrestling with difficulties. 5 4 2 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. 5 5 5 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. 22 6 8 THE CHILDREN ACT, by Ian McEwan. (Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday.) A judge wrestles with a challenging case and a crisis in her marriage. 4 7 * 6 THE BONE CLOCKS, by David Mitchell. (Random House.) Interconnected tales in settings from England in the ’80s to the apocalyptic future revolve around a central character. 5 8 THE LOST KEY, by Catherine Coulter and J. T. Ellison. (Putnam.) Nicholas Drummond of Scotland Yard, now an F.B.I. agent, investigates a Wall Street stabbing that involves secrets reaching back to World War I. 1 9 7 THE PAYING GUESTS, by Sarah Waters. (Riverhead.) In London in 1922, a widow and her daughter take in tenants who upend their lives. 3 10 * 13 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? 9 11 4 BONES NEVER LIE, by Kathy Reichs. (Bantam.) A child murderer who eluded capture years ago has resurfaced, giving the forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan another chance to stop her. 2 12 * 10 THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown.) A painting becomes a boy’s prize, guilt and burden. 50 13 9 THE SECRET PLACE, by Tana French. (Viking.) Detectives Stephen Moran and Antoinette Conway investigate a murder on the grounds of a girls’ school in the Dublin suburbs. 5 14 A SUDDEN LIGHT, by Garth Stein. (Simon & Schuster.) A 14-year-old Seattle boy, staying at his ailing grandfather’s mansion on Puget Sound, explores his family’s dark past. 1 15 STATION ELEVEN, by Emily St. John Mandel. (Knopf.) A traveling theater company looks for an audience among a global pandemic’s survivors. 1 16 * WOLF IN WHITE VAN, by John Darnielle. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux.) The disfigured creator of a role-playing game is pulled back in time to the event that shaped his life. 2
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