New York Times best seller list for fiction: March 2, 2014 This Week Last Week Hardcover Fiction Weeks on List 1 PRIVATE L. A., by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan. (Little, Brown.) Shocking truths emerge after a high-powered celebrity couple disappear from their luxurious ranch and Jack Morgan and Justine Smith are secretly flown in to search for them. 1 2 1 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. 17 3 KILLER, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine.) The psychologist and police consultant Alex Delaware becomes embroiled in a child custody dispute that escalates into murder. 1 4 2 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. 6 5 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. 3 6 4 ONE MORE THING, by B. J. Novak. (Knopf.) Humorous stories from the writer and actor (“The Office”). 2 7 5 SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. (Doubleday.) A sequel, about race and inheritance, to “A Time to Kill.” 17 8 THE COUNTERFEIT AGENT, by Alex Berenson. (Putnam.) John Wells is sent on a mission to find the truth about a mysterious Iranian package said to be bound for the United States. 1 9 7 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown.) A woman disappears on her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? 76 10 8 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. 14 11 * 6 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. 5 12 THE MARTIAN, by Andy Weir. (Crown.) After being left behind by his crew, an astronaut embarks on a dogged quest to stay alive. 1 13 14 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. 21 14 * 9 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. 3 15 10 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. 13
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