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HARDCOVER

FICTION

1. Canada. By Richard Ford. ECCO.

2. Mission to Paris. By Alan Furst. RANDOM HOUSE.

3. Mockingjay. By Suzanne Collins. SCHOLASTIC.

4. Bring Up the Bodies. By Hilary Mantel. HENRY HOLT.

5. Gone Girl. By Gillian Flynn. CROWN.

6. (tie) The Red House. By Mark Haddon. DOUBLEDAY.

6. Hologram for the King. By Dave Eggers. MCSWEENEY’S.

8. Catching Fire. By Suzanne Collins. SCHOLASTIC.

9. Calico Joe. By John Grisham. DOUBLEDAY.

10. The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.

By Nichole Bernier. CROWN.

NONFICTION

1. (tie) Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake.

By Anna Quindlen. RANDOM HOUSE.

1. Wild. By Cheryl Strayed. KNOPF.

3. (tie) Price of Inequality. By John E. Stiglitz. W.W. NORTON & COMPANY.

3. American Sniper. By Chris Kyle. WILLIAM MORROW.

5. The Passage of Power. By Robert Caro. KNOPF.

6. Unbroken. By Laura Hillenbrand. RANDOM HOUSE.

7. Fenway Park at 100. By Bill Nowlin and Jim Prime. SPORTS.

8. Thinking Fast and Slow. By Daniel Kahneman.

FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX.

9. American Tapestry. By Rachel L. Swarns. AMISTAD.

10. This is Water. By David Foster Wallace. LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY.

PAPERBACK

FICTION

1. Fifty Shades of Grey. By E. L. James. VINTAGE.

2. The Sense of an Ending. By Julian Barnes. VINTAGE.

3. Wolf Hall. By Hilary Mantel. PICADOR.

4. Fifty Shades Darker. By E. L. James. VINTAGE.

5. Fifty Shades Freed. By E. L. James. VINTAGE.

6. State of Wonder. By Ann Patchett. HARPER PERENNIAL.

7. The Art of Fielding. By Chad Harbach. BACK BAY.

8. Caleb’s Crossing. By Geraldine Brooks. PENGUIN.

9. The Hunger Games. By Suzanne Collins. SCHOLASTIC.

10. Maine. By J. Courtney Sullivan. VINTAGE.

NONFICTION

1. In the Garden of Beasts. By Erik Larson. BROADWAY.

2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. By Rebecca Skloot.

BROADWAY.

3. Bossypants. By Tina Fey. REAGAN ARTHUR/BACK BAY.

4. The Greater Journey. By David McCullough. SIMON & SCHUSTER.

5. (tie) Turn Right at Machu Picchu. By Mark Adams. PLUME.

5. Blue Nights. By Joan Didion. VINTAGE.

7. (tie) Mayor of Castro Street. By Randy Shilts. ST. MARTIN’S GRIFFIN.

7. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.

By Alexandra Fuller. PENGUIN.

7. I is an Other. By James Geary. HARPER PERENNIAL.

7. Waiting for Mermaids. By Sue Welford. OXFORD UNIVERSITY.

Compiled from Andover Bookstore, Brookline Booksmith, Concord Bookshop, Harvard Book Store, New England Mobile Book Fair, Porter Square Books, Spirit of ‘76, Wellesley Books.