New York times best seller list for fictions: February 9, 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. 14 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. 3 3 3 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. 2 4 * 5 SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. (Doubleday.) A sequel, about race and inheritance, to “A Time to Kill.” 14 5 LOST LAKE, by Sarah Addison Allen. (St. Martins.) Characters gather at a lake in Southern Georgia. 1 6 * 4 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. 11 7 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. 1 8 7 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown.) A woman disappears on her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? 73 9 UNDER THE WIDE AND STARRY SKY, by Nancy Horan. (Ballantine.) A novel about Robert Louis Stevenson’s troubled marriage. 1 10 9 COMMAND AUTHORITY, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney. (Putnam.) President Jack Ryan and his son, a covert intelligence expert, try to counter a Russian threat. 8 11 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. 10 12 8 STANDUP GUY, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam.) In the 28th Stone Barrington novel, the New York lawyer takes on a complicated new client. 3 13 * 12 THE GODS OF GUILT, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown.) Mickey Haller, a.k.a. the Lincoln lawyer, defends a “digital pimp” accused of murder and confronts an angry daughter. 8 14 15 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. 18 15 16 CROSS MY HEART, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown.) Alex Cross’s family is threatened by a genius intent on proving that he is the greatest mind in the history of crime. 9 16 * HUNTING SHADOWS, by Charles Todd. (Morrow/HarperCollins.) In the aftermath of World War I, a Scotland Yard detective with a heavy burden of guilt, investigates two murders in Cambridgeshire that may be linked. 1
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