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New York Times Best Seller lists

The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. It is updated online every Wednesday evening. Below are best seller lists for hardcover fiction and non-fiction. For more lists, visit our New York Times Children’s Best Sellers page or The New York Times’s Best Sellers page.

Hardcover Fiction

August 3, 2014

1

The Book of Lifeby Deborah Harkness
In the conclusion to the All Souls trilogy, the Oxford scholar/witch Diana Bishop and the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont return from Elizabethan London to the present.

2

The Heistby Daniel Silva
Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, must track down a famous missing painting by Caravaggio.

3

Act of Warby Brad Thor
With America facing an imminent attack, the president turns to the counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath to carry out two dangerous missions.

4

Cut and Thrustby Stuart Woods
Complications abound as the New York lawyer Stone Barrington attends a political convention in Los Angeles.

5

Invisibleby James Patterson and David Ellis
Searching for her sister’s killer, a former F.B.I. researcher finds a link between scores of unsolved cases.

6

The Goldfinchby Donna Tartt
After his mother is killed in a museum explosion, a young man grapples with the world alone while hiding a prized Dutch painting.

7

The Silkwormby Robert Galbraith
The private detective Cormoran Strike steps in when the author of a roman à clef set in literary London is murdered; by J. K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.

8

Top Secret Twenty-oneby Janet Evanovich
The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum pursues a popular used-car dealer who's been caught selling more than cars.

9

Wayfaring Strangerby James Lee Burke
A man’s life is traced over decades, starting with his encounter, at age 16, with Bonnie and Clyde.

10

Mr. Mercedesby Stephen King
In a race-against-the-clock thriller, a murderer's weapon is a luxury car, but now he's ready to take down thousands at once.

11

Power Playby Catherine Coulter
An escaped psychopath seeks revenge against the F.B.I. agent who brought down his mother's cult.

12

Shots Firedby C. J. Box
The stories in this first collection, four of them featuring Box’s character Joe Pickett, are set in Wyoming. 

13

Written in My Own Heart's Bloodby Diana Gabaldon
Jamie Fraser and his family face challenges in the 18th and 20th centuries.

14

All the Light We Cannot Seeby Anthony Doerr
The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II.

15

All Fall Downby Jennifer Weiner
A woman becomes addicted to pain medication.

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Hardcover Nonfiction

August 3, 2014

1

Unbrokenby Laura Hillenbrand
An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Read by Edward Herrmann. 13 hours, 56 minutes unabridged.

2

Americaby Dinesh D'Souza
A defense of America against the view that its power in the world should be diminished; also a documentary film.

3

Blood Feudby Edward Klein
A journalist describes animosity behind the alliance between the Clinton and Obama families.

4

The Mockingbird Next Doorby Marja Mills
The author’s experience as Harper Lee’s neighbor in small-town Monroeville, Ala.

5

Hard Choicesby Hillary Rodham Clinton
Clinton’s memoir focuses on her years as secretary of state and her views about the American role in the world.

6

One Nationby Ben Carson with Candy Carson
Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, offers solutions to problems in health and education based on capitalism, not government.

7

Capital in the Twenty-first Centuryby Thomas Piketty
A French economist’s analysis of centuries of economic history predicts worsening inequality and proposes solutions.

8

Think Like a Freakby Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

9

David and Goliathby Malcolm Gladwell

10

Factory Manby Beth Macy
The story of a Virginia factory owner’s resistance to offshoring illustrates the effects of globalization on American workers. 

11

I Am Malalaby Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
The experience of the young Pakistani advocate for women’s education who was shot by the Taliban and won the Nobel Peace Prize.

12

Lean inby Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell

13

Flash Boysby Michael Lewis

14

Diary of a Mad Divaby Joan Rivers
Humorous reflections about life, pop culture and celebrities.

15

Elephant Companyby Vicki Constantine Croke
A portrait of an Englishman known as Elephant Bill who supervised, and came to protect, the elephants employed by a teak company in Burma, and trained them to provide assistance during World War II.