Inside the List
By GREGORY COWLES
Donald Trump and Ben Carson are duking it out in the Republican debates — and on the hardcover nonfiction best-seller list.
November 22, 2015
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Donald Trump and Ben Carson are duking it out in the Republican debates — and on the hardcover nonfiction best-seller list.
This Week | Paperback Trade Fiction | Weeks on List |
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1 | STARS OF FORTUNE, by Nora Roberts. (Berkley.) A seer draws five people to her on Corfu, to find the legendary fire star and keep the world on course; first in the new Guardians trilogy. | 1 | |
2 | THE MARTIAN, by Andy Weir. (Broadway.) Separated from his crew, an astronaut embarks on a quest to stay alive on Mars. | 54 | |
3 | THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne/HarperCollins.) A Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure. | 379 | |
4 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS, by Marlon James. (Riverhead.) This novel uses the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 to explore Jamaican politics, poverty, gang wars and drug trafficking; the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize. | 4 | |
5 | MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson. (Grand Central.) The detective is called away from his family on Christmas Eve — to try to save another family in a rapidly deteriorating hostage situation. | 1 | |
6 | MEMORY MAN, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central.) With the blessing and curse of perfect recall, a former police detective seizes a chance to solve his family's murder. | 8 | |
7 | GREY, by E. L. James. (Vintage.) A "Fifty Shades of Grey" sequel, told from Christian’s point of view, revisits the tortured romance between the controlling billionaire and the unassuming Ana. | 21 | |
8 | MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, by Elena Ferrante. (Europa Editions.) The first installment in the author’s Neapolitan series, about the lifelong friendship between two women. | 10 | |
9 | * | ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Kline. (Morrow/HarperCollins.) A historical novel about orphans swept off the streets of New York and sent to the Midwest in the 1920s. | 100 |
10 | EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin.) A daughter’s death from drowning tears away at a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio. | 21 | |