New York Times Best Seller list for Fiction: February 23, 2014 This Week Last Week Hardcover Fiction Weeks on List 1 2 THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown.) A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy’s prize, guilt and burden. 16 2 1 THE INVENTION OF WINGS, by Sue Monk Kidd. (Viking.) The relationship between a wealthy Charleston girl, Sarah Grimké, who will grow up to become a prominent abolitionist, and the slave she is given for her 11th birthday. 5 3 3 STILL LIFE WITH BREAD CRUMBS, by Anna Quindlen. (Random House.) An aging photographer rents a rural cottage and discovers sparks of creativity and desire. 2 4 ONE MORE THING, by B. J. Novak. (Knopf.) Humorous stories from the writer and actor (“The Office”). 1 5 5 SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. (Doubleday.) A sequel, about race and inheritance, to “A Time to Kill.” 16 6 4 FIRST LOVE, by James Patterson and Emily Raymond. (Little, Brown.) Sixteen-year-old Axi Moore invites her best friend, whom she secretly loves, on a road trip. 4 7 7 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown.) A woman disappears on her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? 75 8 6 THE FIRST PHONE CALL FROM HEAVEN, by Mitch Albom. (Harper.) A small Michigan town is transformed when its residents receive phone calls said to be from heaven. 13 9 8 AN OFFICER AND A SPY, by Robert Harris. (Knopf.) A fictionalized account of the Dreyfus Affair focuses on Lt. Col. Georges Picquart, who discovered evidence exonerating Dreyfus and bravely defended him. 2 10 * 11 THE HUSBANDS SECRET, by Liane Moriarty. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam.) A woman’s life is upended when she discovers a letter she was not meant to read. 12 11 CELL, by Robin Cook. (Putnam.) A medical app called iDoc seems to be killing patients; has it been hacked? 1 12 10 UNDER THE WIDE AND STARRY SKY, by Nancy Horan. (Ballantine.) A novel about Robert Louis Stevenson’s troubled marriage. 3 13 * CONFESSIONS OF A WILD CHILD, by Jackie Collins. (St. Martins.) The early years of Collins’s recurring character Lucky Santangelo. 1 14 13 DOCTOR SLEEP, by Stephen King. (Scribner.) Now grown up, Dan, the boy with psycho-intuitive powers in “The Shining,” helps another threatened child with a gift. 20 15 RIPPER, by Isabel Allende. (Harper.) A brilliant young woman who loves to play an online mystery game becomes involved in an investigation of a series of murders, which becomes personal when her mother disappears. 1 16 * 12 THE DAYS OF ANNA MADRIGAL, by Armistead Maupin. (Harper.) In the ninth and final book in the Tales of the City series, the transgender former landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, age 92, attends to unfinished business. 3
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