🥇 01
THE HIT
🖋️ David Baldacci
🏢 Grand Central
The government hit man Will Robie uncovers a serious threat as he tries to stop Jessica Reel, a fellow assassin who has gone rogue.
🥈 02
WHISKEY BEACH
🖋️ Nora Roberts
🏢 Putnam
A former criminal attorney who has been acquitted of his wife’s murder retreats to his family estate on a rocky New England cliff, where he is comforted by the house’s caretaker amid continuing danger.
🥉 03
FLY AWAY
🖋️ Kristin Hannah
🏢 St. Martin's
A brash but lonely woman must deal with her personal demons before she can keep her promise to help the family of her deceased friend; a sequel to "Firefly Lane."
04
PARIS
🖋️ Edward Rutherfurd
🏢 Doubleday
A centuries-spanning historical novel that weaves together the fates of a handful of families who come of age, seek their fortunes and fall in and out of love in the City of Light.
05
LIFE AFTER LIFE
🖋️ Kate Atkinson
🏢 Reagan Arthur Books
Atkinson’s heroine, born in 1910, keeps dying and dying again, as she experiences the alternate courses her destiny might have taken.
06
BEAUTIFUL RUINS
🖋️ Jess Walter
🏢 Harper Perennial
Ruins both emotional and architectural, in Italy, Hollywood and elsewhere, figure in this sweeping novel.
07
WEDDING NIGHT
🖋️ Sophie Kinsella
🏢 Dial
When her boyfriend fails to propose yet again, Lottie impulsively decides to marry her old flame. Convinced Lottie is making a terrible mistake, her sister, Fliss, will do anything to stop her.
08
DADDY'S GONE A HUNTING
🖋️ Mary Higgins Clark
🏢 Simon & Schuster
An explosion at her family’s antique furniture museum leaves a glamorous C.P.A. in a coma.
09
GONE GIRL
🖋️ Gillian Flynn
🏢 Crown
A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer?
10
THE BEST OF ME
🖋️ Nicholas Sparks
🏢 Grand Central
Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.
11
A GAME OF THRONES
🖋️ George RR Martin
🏢 Bantam
In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering.
12
WORLD WAR Z
🖋️ Max Brooks
🏢 Broadway
An "oral history" of an imagined Zombie War that nearly destroys civilization.
13
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
🖋️ E L James
🏢 Vintage
An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy.
14
THE BLACK BOX
🖋️ Michael Connelly
🏢 Grand Central
In a case that spans 20 years, the Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch links a recent crime to the killing of a photographer amid the 1992 race riots.
15
THE BURGESS BOYS
🖋️ Elizabeth Strout
🏢 Random House
Two brothers, both lawyers, return to their Maine hometown to defend their troubled teenage nephew.
16
THE MYSTERY WOMAN
🖋️ Amanda Quick
🏢 Putnam
Joshua Gage, who carries out investigations for the crown, and Beatrice Lockwood are embroiled in a case of blackmail, mesmerism and madness; by Jayne Ann Krentz, writing pseudonymously.
17
DON'T GO
🖋️ Lisa Scottoline
🏢 St. Martin's
An Army doctor returns home from Afghanistan to find that the life he left behind has fallen apart.
18
CALICO JOE
🖋️ John Grisham
🏢 Dell
In the summer of 1973, a fateful baseball play unites Joe Castle, a dazzling rookie; Warren Tracey, a hard-partying and hard-throwing pitcher, and Tracey’s young son, Paul.