Library Journal’s Best Sellers is compiled from data on books borrowed and requested (placed on hold) at public libraries throughout the United States. It includes statistics from urban, suburban, and rural libraries. We thank the many contributing libraries as well as The Library Corporation (TLC), Polaris Library Systems, and SirsiDynix. (c) Copyright 2013 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc.
Fiction
| RANK | LAST RANKING / TIMES ON LIST | |
| 1 | The Cuckoo’s Calling. Robert Galbraith. Mulholland:
Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316206846. $26. |
3 / 2 |
| 2 | And the Mountains Echoed. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead. ISBN 9781594631764. $28.95. |
1 / 3 |
| 3 | The English Girl. Daniel Silva. Harper. ISBN 9780062073167. $27.99. |
5 / 2 |
| 4 | Inferno. Dan Brown. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385537858. $29.95. |
2 / 4 |
| 5 | Never Go Back. Lee Child. Delacorte. ISBN 9780385344340. $28. |
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| 6 | Mistress. James Patterson & David Ellis. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316211079. $28. |
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| 7 | W Is for Wasted. Sue Grafton. Marion Wood: Putnam. ISBN 9780399158988. $28.95. |
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| 8 | Gone Girl. Gillian Flynn. Crown. ISBN 9780307588364. $25. |
4 / 13 |
| 9 | Second Honeymoon. James Patterson & Howard Roughan. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316211222. $28. | 6 / 2 |
| 10 | The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Neil Gaiman. Morrow. ISBN 9780062255655. $25.99. |
7 / 2 |
| 11 | The Hit. David Baldacci. Grand Central. ISBN 9781455521210. $27.99. |
8 / 4 |
| 12 | 12th of Never. James Patterson & Maxine Paetro.
Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316210829. $27.99. |
14 / 5 |
| 13 | The Interestings. Meg Wolitzer. Riverhead. ISBN 9781594488399. $27.95. |
13 / 3 |
| 14 | Silken Prey. John Sandford. Putnam. ISBN 9780399159312. $27.95. |
12 / 4 |
| 15 | The Husband’s Secret. Liane Moriarty. Amy Einhorn: Putnam. ISBN 9780399159343. $25.95. |
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Nonfiction
| RANK | LAST RANKING / TIMES ON LIST | |
| 1 | Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.
Reza Aslan. Random. ISBN 9781400069224. $27. |
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| 2 | This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral—Plus, Plenty
of Valet Parking!—in America’s Gilded Capital.
Mark Leibovich. Blue Rider. ISBN 9780399161308. $27.95. |
2 / 2 |
| 3 | Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison. Piper Kerman. Spiegel & Grau. ISBN 9780812986181. pap. $16. |
9 / 2 |
| 4 | Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will To Lead. Sheryl Sandberg. Knopf. ISBN 9780385349949. $24.95. | 1 / 6 |
| 5 | Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls. David Sedaris.
Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316154697. $27. |
3 / 4 |
| 6 | Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife. Eben Alexander. S. & S. ISBN 9781451695199. pap. $15.99. |
5 / 9 |
| 7 | The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.
George Packer. Farrar. ISBN 9780374102418. $27. |
6 / 3 |
| 8 | Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. Michael Pollan. Penguin. ISBN 9781594204210. $27.95. | 7 / 4 |
| 9 | Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. Susan Cain. Crown. ISBN 9780307352149. $26. |
4 / 15 |
| 10 | Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.
Michael Moss. Random. ISBN 9781400069804. $28. |
8 / 6 |
| 11 | Daring Greatly: How the Courage To Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. Brene Brown. Gotham. ISBN 9781592407330. $26. |
13 / 4 |
| 12 | Dad Is Fat. Jim Gaffigan. Crown Archetype. ISBN 9780385349055. $25. |
12 / 2 |
| 13 | Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Scott Anderson. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385532921. $28.95. |
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| 14 | Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Cheryl Strayed. Knopf. ISBN 9780307592736. $25.95. |
10 / 15 |
| 15 | Still Foolin’ ’Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going,
and Where the Hell Are My Keys? Billy Crystal. Holt. ISBN 9780805098204. $28. |
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