NYT Combined Print Fiction
Bestseller List for May 12, 2013
THE HIT
David Baldacci
Grand Central
9781455521210
1-4555-2121-3
The government hit man Will Robie uncovers a serious threat as he tries to stop Jessica Reel, a fellow assassin who has gone rogue.
WHISKEY BEACH
Nora Roberts
Putnam
9780399159893
0-399-15989-4
A former criminal attorney who has been acquitted of his wife’s murder retreats to his family estate on a rocky New England cliff, where he is comforted by the house’s caretaker amid continuing danger.
FLY AWAY
Kristin Hannah
St. Martin's
9780312577216
0-312-57721-4
A brash but lonely woman must deal with her personal demons before she can keep her promise to help the family of her deceased friend; a sequel to "Firefly Lane."
PARIS
Edward Rutherfurd
Doubleday
9780385535304
0-385-53530-9
A centuries-spanning historical novel that weaves together the fates of a handful of families who come of age, seek their fortunes and fall in and out of love in the City of Light.
LIFE AFTER LIFE
Kate Atkinson
Reagan Arthur Books
9780316176484
0-316-17648-6
Atkinson’s heroine, born in 1910, keeps dying and dying again, as she experiences the alternate courses her destiny might have taken.
BEAUTIFUL RUINS
Jess Walter
Harper Perennial
9780061928178
0-06-192817-8
Ruins both emotional and architectural, in Italy, Hollywood and elsewhere, figure in this sweeping novel.
WEDDING NIGHT
Sophie Kinsella
Dial
9780812993844
0-8129-9384-5
When her boyfriend fails to propose yet again, Lottie impulsively decides to marry her old flame. Convinced Lottie is making a terrible mistake, her sister, Fliss, will do anything to stop her.
DADDY'S GONE A HUNTING
Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster
9781451668940
1-4516-6894-5
An explosion at her family’s antique furniture museum leaves a glamorous C.P.A. in a coma.
GONE GIRL
Gillian Flynn
Crown
9780307588364
0-307-58836-X
A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer?
THE BEST OF ME
Nicholas Sparks
Grand Central
9780446547635
0-446-54763-8
Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.
A GAME OF THRONES
George RR Martin
Bantam
9780553573404
0-553-57340-3
In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering.
WORLD WAR Z
Max Brooks
Broadway
9780307346612
0-307-34661-7
An "oral history" of an imagined Zombie War that nearly destroys civilization.
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
E L James
Vintage
9780345803481
0-345-80348-5
An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy.
THE BLACK BOX
Michael Connelly
Grand Central
9781455526956
1-4555-2695-9
In a case that spans 20 years, the Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch links a recent crime to the killing of a photographer amid the 1992 race riots.
THE BURGESS BOYS
Elizabeth Strout
Random House
9781400067688
1-4000-6768-5
Two brothers, both lawyers, return to their Maine hometown to defend their troubled teenage nephew.
THE MYSTERY WOMAN
Amanda Quick
Putnam
9780399159091
0-399-15909-6
Joshua Gage, who carries out investigations for the crown, and Beatrice Lockwood are embroiled in a case of blackmail, mesmerism and madness; by Jayne Ann Krentz, writing pseudonymously.
DON'T GO
Lisa Scottoline
St. Martin's
9781250010070
1-250-01007-1
An Army doctor returns home from Afghanistan to find that the life he left behind has fallen apart.
CALICO JOE
John Grisham
Dell
9780345541338
0-345-54133-2
In the summer of 1973, a fateful baseball play unites Joe Castle, a dazzling rookie; Warren Tracey, a hard-partying and hard-throwing pitcher, and Tracey’s young son, Paul.
THE FORGOTTEN
David Baldacci
Grand Central
9781455523153
1-4555-2315-1
A special agent with the United States Army investigates his aunt’s mysterious death in a picture-perfect town on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
THE INTERESTINGS
Meg Wolitzer
Riverhead
9781594488399
1-59448-839-8
Six friends meet in the 1970s at a summer arts camp, and pursue success, and one another, over succeeding decades.