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HARDCOVER

FICTION

1. Gone Girl. By Gillian Flynn. CROWN.

2. The Other Woman. By Hank Phillippi Ryan. FORGE.

3. A Dance with Dragons. By George R.R. Martin. BANTAM.

4. Defending Jacob. By William Landay. DELACORTE.

5. The Beautiful Mystery. By Louise Penny. MINOTAUR.

6. The Time Keeper. By Mitch Albom. HYPERION.

7. Mockingjay. By Suzanne Collins. SCHOLASTIC.

8. NW. By Zadie Smith. PENGUIN.

9. Sandcastle Girls. By Chris Bohjalian. DOUBLEDAY.

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

NONFICTION

1. No Easy Day. By Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer. DUTTON.

2. Wild. By Cheryl Strayed. KNOPF.

3. Mortality. By Christopher Hitchens. TWELVE.

4. Unbroken. By Laura Hillenbrand. RANDOM HOUSE.

5. Happier at Home. By Gretchen Rubin. CROWN ARCHETYPE.

6. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story. By D.T. Max. VIKING.

7. How Children Succeed. By Paul Tough.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT.

8. How Music Works. By David Byrne. MCSWEENEY’S.

9. Go the F*ck to Sleep. By Adam Mansbach. AKASHIC.

10. Double Cross. By Ben Macintyre. CROWN.

PAPERBACK

FICTION

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

2. The Marriage Plot. By Jeffrey Eugenides. PICADOR.

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

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

5. Cloud Atlas. By David Mitchell. RANDOM HOUSE.

6. Rules of Civility. By Amor Towles. PENGUIN.

7. Maine. By J. Courtney Sullivan. VINTAGE.

8. Night Circus. By Erin Morgenstern. ANCHOR.

9. Caleb’s Crossing. By Geraldine Brooks. VIKING.

10. The Language of Flowers. By Vanessa Diffenbaugh. BALLANTINE.

NONFICTION

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

2. The Swerve. By Stephen Greenblatt. W.W. NORTON.

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

4. Arguably. By Christopher Hitchens. TWELVE.

5. How to Be a Woman. By Caitlin Moran. HARPER PERENNIAL.

6. F in Exams. By Richard Benson. CHRONICLE.

7. Townie. By Andre Dubus III. W.W.NORTON.

8. F for Effort. By Richard Benson. CHRONICLE.

9. (tie) Steal Like an Artist. By Austin Kleon. WORKMAN.

9. I Remember Nothing. By Nora Ephron. VINTAGE.

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