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THIS LAST WEEKS THIS LAST WEEKS WEEK WEEK Fiction ON LIST WEEK WEEK Nonfiction ON LIST 1 NEVER NEVER, by James Patterson and Candice Fox. (Little, 1 1 1 HILLBILLY ELEGY, by J. D. Vance. (HarperCollins) A Yale Law 26 Brown) Harriet Blue, a Sydney sex crimes detective, is sent to the School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working outback (the never never) to investigate the disappearance of a class through his own childhood in the Rust Belt. mine worker. The first in a new series. 2 2 THREE DAYS IN JANUARY, by Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney. 2 2 3 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, by Colson Whitehead. 24 (Morrow/HarperCollins) Eisenhower’s farewell address and his (Doubleday) A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, role in the Kennedy transition. envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels. 3 3 KILLING THE RISING SUN, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. 19 3* 4 TWO BY TWO, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) A man who 16 (Holt) The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the final years of became a single father when his marriage and business collapsed World War II. learns to take a chance on a new love. 4 5 THE MAGNOLIA STORY, by Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with 14 4 2 THE WHISTLER, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) A whistleblower 13 Mark Dagostino. (W Publishing/Thomas Nelson) The lives of the alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the couple who star in the HGTV show “Fixer Upper.” Mob and Indian casinos. 5 9 THE BOOK OF JOY, by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu with 14 5 1 THE MISTRESS, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) The beautiful 3 Douglas Abrams. (Avery) A discussion between two spiritual mistress of a Russian oligarch falls in love with an artist and leaders about how to find joy in the face of suffering. yearns for freedom. 6 6 THE UNDOING PROJECT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton) How the 7 6 FEVERSONG, by Karen Marie Moning. (Delacorte) A group of 1 psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky upended superhuman beings fight to save Dublin (and humanity); the assumptions about the decision-making process and invented the conclusion of the Fever series. field of behavioral economics. 7 5 CROSS THE LINE, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown) Detective 9 7 4 THE PRINCESS DIARIST, by Carrie Fisher. (Blue Rider) 4 Alex Cross and his wife, Bree, team up to catch a killer causing Recollections of life on the set of the first Star Wars movie by the chaos in Washington, D.C. actress and writer, who died in December. 8 7 SMALL GREAT THINGS, by Jodi Picoult. (Ballantine) A medical 15 8 TEARS WE CANNOT STOP, by Michael Eric Dyson. (St. Martin’s) 1 crisis entangles a black nurse, a white supremacist father and a A frank and searing discussion of race. white lawyer. 9 7 THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD, by Douglas Preston. 3 9 6 BELOW THE BELT, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam) The New York 3 (Grand Central) A frightening search for a lost civilization in the lawyer Stone Barrington faces danger when he finds himself in Honduran rain forest. possession of a retired C.I.A. agent’s explosive memoir. 10* 15 HIDDEN FIGURES, by Margot Lee Shetterly. (Morrow/ 3 10 8 THE CHEMIST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown) A specialist 11 HarperCollins) The black women mathematicians who worked at in chemically controlled torture, on the run from her former then-segregated NASA. The basis of the movie. employers, takes on one last job. 11 12 WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR, by Paul Kalanithi. (Random 47 11 9 NO MAN’S LAND, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) John Puller, 10 House) A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of a special agent with the Army, searches for the truth about his Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36. mother, who disappeared 30 years ago. 12 AUDACITY, by Jonathan Chait. (Custom House) An argument for 1 12 14 COMMONWEALTH, by Ann Patchett. (Harper) Five decades in the 15 the durability of Obama’s legacy. lives of two families remade by divorce. 13 14 BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. (Spiegel 69 13 15 A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, by Amor Towles. (Viking) A Russian 10 & Grau) A meditation on race in America. count undergoes 30 years of house arrest in the Metropol hotel, across from the Kremlin. 14 11 THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, 9 Straus & Giroux) How globalization, climate change and the 14 THE WRONG SIDE OF GOODBYE, by Michael Connelly. (Little, 11 accelerating pace of technology are are reshaping the world, and Brown) The detective Harry Bosch aids a billionaire in search of a what we can do about it. possible heir. 15 16 BORN A CRIME, by Trevor Noah. (Spiegel & Grau) A memoir 10 15 16 NIGHT SCHOOL, by Lee Child. (Delacorte) Jack Reacher, still in 11 about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the the Army, becomes involved in an investigation with elite agents comedian, now the host of “The Daily Show.” from the F.B.I. and C.I.A.

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending January 21, which are reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Copyright © 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW February 5, 2017 by The New York Times Combined Print & E-Book Best Sellers

WEEKS THIS LAST WEEKS THIS LAST ON LIST WEEK WEEK Fiction ON LIST WEEK WEEK Nonfiction 1 NEVER NEVER, by James Patterson and Candice Fox. (Little, 1 1 1 HIDDEN FIGURES, by Margot Lee Shetterly. (Morrow/ 6 Brown) Harriet Blue, a Sydney sex crimes detective, is sent to the HarperCollins) he story, based in part on interviews, of the black outback (the never never) to investigate the disappearance of a women mathematicians who were hired as “computers” by the mine worker. The first in a new series. precursor of NASA during World War II. The basis of the movie. 2 1 A DOG’S PURPOSE, by W. Bruce Cameron. (Forge Books) A 7 2 2 HILLBILLY ELEGY, by J. D. Vance. (HarperCollins) A Yale Law 26 canine narrator undergoes a series of reincarnations. School graduate looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood in the Rust Belt. 3 2 A MAN CALLED OVE, by Fredrik Backman. (Washington Square) 35 A curmudgeon’s gruff exterior masks a generosity of spirit. 3 3 THREE DAYS IN JANUARY, by Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney. 2 Originally published in Sweden in 2014. (Morrow/HarperCollins) Eisenhower’s farewell address and his role in the Kennedy transition. 4 FEVERSONG, by Karen Marie Moning. (Delacorte) A group of 1 superhuman beings fight to save Dublin (and humanity); the 4 4 KILLING THE RISING SUN, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. 19 conclusion of the Fever series. (Holt) The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the final years of World War II. 5 EGOMANIAC, by Vi Keeland. (EverAfter Romance) An embittered 1 attorney and a psychologist share an office space and a growing 5 7 THE MAGNOLIA STORY, by Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with 14 attraction. Mark Dagostino. (W Publishing/Thomas Nelson) The couple who star in the HGTV show “Fixer Upper.” 6 6 THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. (Riverhead) A 100 psychological thriller set in the environs of London is full of 6 5 THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD, by Douglas Preston. 3 complications and betrayals. (Grand Central) A frightening search for a lost civilization in the Honduran rain forest. 7 5 THE WHISTLER, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) A whistleblower 13 alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the 7 9 THE UNDOING PROJECT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton) How the 7 Mob and Indian casinos. psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky upended assumptions about the decision-making process and invented the 8 7 MILK AND HONEY, by Rupi Kaur. (Andrews McMeel) Poetic 6 field of behavioral economics. approaches to surviving adversity and loss. 8 12 ALEXANDER HAMILTON, by Ron Chernow. (Penguin) A biography 56 9 4 THE MISTRESS, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) The beautiful 3 of the first Treasury secretary. Originally published in 2004 and mistress of a Russian oligarch falls in love with an artist and the basis of the Broadway musical. yearns for freedom. 9 10 WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR, by Paul Kalanithi. (Random 48 10 12 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, by Colson Whitehead. 15 House) A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of (Doubleday) A teenage girl heads north on the network that Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36. helped slaves escape to freedom, envisioned in this novel as a secret system of actual tracks and tunnels. 10 6 THE PRINCESS DIARIST, by Carrie Fisher. (Blue Rider) 4 Recollections of life on the set of the first Star Wars movie by the 11 9 SMALL GREAT THINGS, by Jodi Picoult. (Ballantine) A medical 15 actress and writer, who died in December. crisis entangles a black nurse, a white supremacist father and a white lawyer. 11 14 THE BOOK OF JOY, by Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. (Avery) A 9 discussion between two spiritual leaders about how to find joy in 12 FIDELITY, by Aleatha Romig. (Romig Works) Nox and Charli find 1 the face of suffering. their happily ever after in the conclusion to the Infidelity series. 12 TEARS WE CANNOT STOP, by Michael Eric Dyson. (St. Martin’s) 1 13 MY GRANDMOTHER ASKED ME TO TELL YOU SHE’S SORRY, 1 A frank and searing discussion of race. by Fredrik Backman. (Washington Square Press) A girl is instructed to deliver a series of letters after her grandmother dies. 13 BORN A CRIME, by Trevor Noah. (Spiegel & Grau) A memoir 9 about growing up in South Africa by the comedian, now the 14 15 TWO BY TWO, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) A man who 16 host of “The Daily Show,” whose parents had an illegal (under became a single father after both his marriage and his business apartheid) interracial relationship. collapsed learns to take a chance on a new love. 14 AUDACITY, by Jonathan Chait. (Custom House) An argument for 1 15 8 CROSS THE LINE, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown) Detective 9 the durability of Obama’s legacy. Alex Cross and his wife, Bree, team up to catch a killer causing chaos in Washington, D.C. 15 INSANE CLOWN PRESIDENT, by Matt Taibbi. (Spiegel & Grau) 1 Dispatches from the 2016 campaign.

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending January 21, which are reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. E-book rankings reflect sales from leading online vendors of e-books in a variety of popular e-reader formats. Titles are included regardless of whether they are published in both print and electronic formats or just one format. Publisher credits for e-books are listed under the corporate publishing name instead of by publisher’s division. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Copyright © 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW February 5, 2017 by The New York Times Print Paperback Best Sellers

THIS WEEKS THIS WEEKS WEEK Paperback Trade Fiction ON LIST WEEK Paperback Nonfiction ON LIST 1 A DOG’S PURPOSE, by W. Bruce Cameron. (Forge) 24 1 HIDDEN FIGURES, by Margot Lee Shetterly. (Morrow/ 7 HarperCollins) 2 A MAN CALLED OVE, by Fredrik Backman. (Washington Square) 56 2 ALEXANDER HAMILTON, by Ron Chernow. (Penguin) 67

3 MILK AND HONEY, by Rupi Kaur. (Andrews McMeel) 41 3 WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS, by Chimamanda Ngozi 14 Adichie. (Anchor) 4 MY GRANDMOTHER ASKED ME TO TELL YOU SHE’S SORRY, 40 4* THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, 120 by Fredrik Backman. (Washington Square) Straus & Giroux) 5 THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. (Riverhead) 28 5 THE NEW JIM CROW, by Michelle Alexander. (New Press) 145

6 THE GAMES, by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan. (Grand 3 6 THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House) 95 Central) 7 THE WIDOW, by Fiona Barton. (Berkley) 1 7 JUST MERCY, by Bryan Stevenson. (Spiegel & Grau) 61

8 SILENCE, by Shusaku Endo. (Picador) 2 8* TROUBLEMAKER, by Leah Remini and Rebecca Paley. 2 (Ballantine) 9 THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne/HarperCollins) 424 9 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown) 231

10 FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James. (Vintage) 112 10 QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Broadway) 148

THIS WEEKS THIS WEEKS WEEK Middle Grade Hardcover ON LIST WEEK Young Adult Hardcover ON LIST

1 DOG MAN UNLEASHED, by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) Only one 4 1 CARVE THE MARK, by Veronica Roth. (Katherine Tegen) An 1 hybrid hero can foil the criminally minded, again. (Ages 7 to 9) oracle’s son is able to stop the painful flow of Cyra’s powers. (Ages 14 and up) 2 WONDER, by R. J. Palacio. (Knopf) A boy with a facial deformity 76 starts school. (Ages 8 to 12) 2 COURAGE TO SOAR, by Simone Biles with Michelle Burford. 10 (Zondervan) The life of the gold-medal-studded Olympic gymnast. 3 DOG MAN, by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) A hybrid supercop hound 21 (Ages 13 to 17) helps save the day. (Ages 7 to 9) 3 HEARTLESS, by Marissa Meyer. (Feiwel & Friends) Cath is a baker 11 4 GRAVITY FALLS: JOURNAL 3, by Rob Renzetti and Alex Hirsch. 26 in love with a jester, before she becomes Wonderland’s hectoring Illustrated by Andy Gonsalves and Stephanie Ramirez. (Disney Queen of Hearts. (Ages 12 to 18) Press) More monsters and mysteries. (Ages 8 to 12) 4 SCYTHE, by Neal Shusterman. (Simon & Schuster) Teenagers 6 5 WORD OF MOUSE, by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. 6 become unwilling apprentices to the Grim Reapers in a world Illustrated by Joe Sutphin. (Jimmy Patterson/Little, Brown) After without death. (Ages 12 and up) escaping a laboratory, a wily blue rodent makes his way in the world. (Ages 8 to 12) 5 THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR, by Nicola Yoon. (Delacorte) The story 12 of a girl, a boy, budding love and the universe. (Ages 12 to 17) 6 PAX, by Sara Pennypacker. Illustrated by Jon Klassen. (Balzer & 48 Bray) Separation makes a boy and his pet fox wilder and tougher. 6 CHILDREN OF EDEN, by Joey Graceffa. (Atria/Keywords) In a 12 (Ages 8 to 12) society controlling its population, a girl is marked for death. (Ages 12 to 18) 7 THE HAMMER OF THOR, by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion) 16 Magnus Chase and his friends must find Thor’s signature 7 MOON CHOSEN, by P. C. Cast. (St. Martin’s Griffin) Rivals and 14 accessory. (Ages 10 to 14) allies struggle to define their place in a postapocalyptic world. (Ages 14 and up) 8 THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON, by Kelly Barnhill. 3 (Algonquin) A sacrificial girl is saved by a good witch. (Ages 10 8 WAYFARER, by Alexandra Bracken. (Hyperion) A startling 3 to 14) revelation alters Etta’s course, as Nicholas discovers an ancient power. (Ages 12 to 18) 9 WOMEN IN SCIENCE, by Rachel Ignotofsky. (Ten Speed) Fifty 16 women who have transformed science and technology. (Ages 8 9 THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS, by Marieke Nijkamp. (Sourcebooks 35 to 12) Fire) An act of violence parsed from four perspectives. (Ages 14 and up) 10 THE HIDDEN ORACLE, by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion) 36 Apollo, now a mortal teenager with acne, sets out to restore his 10 ROSEBLOOD, by A. G. Howard. (Amulet) Talent comes with a 2 tarnished reputation. (Ages 12 to 17) price for an opera singer sent to a performing arts boarding school. (Ages 13 and up)

THIS WEEKS THIS WEEKS WEEK Picture Books ON LIST WEEK Series ON LIST

1 LOVE FROM THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR, by Eric Carle. 8 1 HARRY POTTER, by J. K. Rowling. (Scholastic) A wizard hones his 409 (Grosset & Dunlap) A ravenous insect returns with its appetite conjuring skills in the service of fighting evil. (Ages 10 and up) intact. (Ages 3 to 5) 2 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. 410 2 ADA TWIST, SCIENTIST, by Andrea Beaty. Illustrated by David 20 (Amulet) The travails and challenges of adolescence. (Ages 9 to Roberts. (Abrams) A girl emerges with a love of science. (Ages 5 12) to 7) 3 DORK DIARIES, by Rachel Renée Russell. (Simon & Schuster) 191 3 THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES, by B. J. Novak. (Dial) Silly 120 Nikki Maxwell navigates the halls of middle school. (Ages 9 to 13) songs and sound effects in a book without images. (Ages 4 to 8) 4 MISS PEREGRINE’S PECULIAR CHILDREN, by Ransom Riggs. 70 4 THE WONDERFUL THINGS YOU WILL BE, by Emily Winfield 69 (Quirk/Penguin) Time travelers try to save their headmistress. Martin. (Random House) A celebration of future possibilities. (Ages 14 and up) (Ages 3 to 7) 5 A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, by Lemony Snicket. 141 5 DRAGONS LOVE TACOS, by Adam Rubin. Illustrated by Daniel 153 (HarperCollins Publishers) The three Baudelaire siblings find Salmieri. (Dial) What to serve your dragon-guests. (Ages 3 to 5) misfortune everywhere they turn. (Ages 10 and up) 6 ROSIE REVERE, ENGINEER, by Andrea Beaty. Illustrated by 84 6 LAND OF STORIES, by Chris Colfer. Illustrated by Brandon 28 David Roberts. (Abrams) A young inventor learns to fail better. Dorman. (Little, Brown) Fairy tales and classic stories collide. (Ages 4 to 8) (Ages 8 to 12) 7 THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT, by Drew Daywalt. Illustrated by 187 7 BAD KITTY, by Nick Bruel. (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook, hardcover 6 Oliver Jeffers. (Philomel) Colorful problems arise when Duncan’s and paper) Riotous stories of a cat gone berserk. (Ages 4 to 8) crayons revolt. (Ages 3 to 7) 8 HOUSE OF ROBOTS, by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. 1 8 TAKE HEART, MY CHILD, by Ainsley Earhardt with Kathryn 10 Illustrated by Juliana Neufeld. (Jimmy Patterson/Little, Brown) Cristaldi. Illustrated by Jaime Kim. (Aladdin) A lyrical address to a Sammy and his “bro-bot” E dodge mechanical chaos and face the newborn, encouraging her to seize the day. (Ages 6 to 10) uncertainties of fifth grade. (Ages 8 to 12) 9 PRESS HERE, by Hervé Tullet. (Handprint/Chronicle) A whimsical 249 9 WINGS OF FIRE, by Tui T. Sutherland. (Scholastic) The seven 18 dance of color and motion, at the touch of a finger. (Ages 4 to 8) dragon tribes have been at war for generations, and only the five dragonets of destiny can unite them. (Ages 9 to 12) 10 WAITING IS NOT EASY!, by Mo Willems. (Hyperion) Impatient 43 Gerald has to wait for Piggie’s promised surprise. (Ages 2 to 7) 10 MIDDLE SCHOOL, by James Patterson and others. (Little, Brown) 33 More adventures with Rafe. (Ages 8 to 12)

Picture Book rankings include hardcover sales only. Series rankings include all print and e-book sales. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Copyright © 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW February 5, 2017 by The New York Times Advice, How-To and Misc. and Monthly Best Sellers

THIS WEEKS THIS Business WEEK Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous ON LIST WEEK

1 TOOLS OF TITANS, by Tim Ferriss. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 7 1 THE MAGNOLIA STORY, by Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with (†) Mark Dagostino. (W Publishing/Thomas Nelson) YOU ARE A BADASS, by Jen Sincero. (Running Press) 54 2 THE UNDOING PROJECT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton) 2 3 FOOD, HEALTH AND HAPPINESS, by Oprah Winfrey. (Flatiron 3 3 TOOLS OF TITANS, by Tim Ferriss. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Books) (†) THE LOSE YOUR BELLY DIET, by Travis Stork. (Ghost Mountain) 4 4 THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, 4 Straus & Giroux)

THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (Northfield) 184 5 SHOE DOG, by Phil Knight. (Scribner) 5 6 THE WHOLE30, by Melissa Hartwig. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 68 6 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, (†) Straus & Giroux) UNINVITED, by Lysa TerKeurst. (Thomas Nelson) (†) 18 7 GRIT, by Angela Duckworth. (Scribner) 7 8 THE WHOLE30 COOKBOOK, by Melissa Hartwig. (Houghton 5 8 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown) Mifflin Harcourt) 9* THE ZERO SUGAR DIET, by David Zinczenko with Stephen 3 9 DESIGNING YOUR LIFE, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. (Knopf) Perrine. (Ballantine) 10 THE LITTLE BOOK OF HYGGE, by Meik Wiking. (Morrow) 1 10 THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House)

The category Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous Best Sellers includes both print and e-book sales. The titles ranked in this monthly Best-Seller List are selected by the Best-Seller List editors from among all adult nonfiction titles reported to The New York Times during December. These rankings reflect the combined print and e-book sales for the monthly sales period of December 1 through December 31. An asterisk (*) indicates that a title’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the title ranked above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/ methodology. Copyright © 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW February 5, 2017 by The New York Times Monthly Best Sellers

THIS THIS WEEK Science WEEK Sports and Fitness 1 THE UNDOING PROJECT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton) 1 SHAKEN, by Tim Tebow. (Waterbrook)

2 WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR, by Paul Kalanithi. (Random 2 SHOE DOG, by Phil Knight. (Scribner) House) 3 HIDDEN FIGURES, by Margot Lee Shetterly. (HarperCollins) 3 A LIFE WELL PLAYED, by Arnold Palmer. (St. Martin’s)

4 THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES, by Peter Wohlleben. (Greystone) 4 THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. (Penguin)

5 WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 5 COURAGE TO SOAR, by Simone Biles with Michelle Burford. (Zondervan) 6 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, 6 LUCKY BASTARD, by Joe Buck. (Dutton) Straus & Giroux) 7 THE GENE, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. (Scribner) 7 RUN FAST. EAT SLOW, by Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky. (Rodale) . 8 SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (Harper) 8 LIVING OUT LOUD, by Craig Sager with Craig Sager II and Brian Curtis. (Flatiron) 9 LAB GIRL, by Hope Jahren. (Knopf) 9 THE AMERICAN FISHERMAN, by Willie Robertson and William Doyle. (William Morrow) 10 THING EXPLAINER, by Randall Munroe. (Houghton Mifflin 10 JEFF GORDON, by Joe Garner. (Jeff Gordon Inc.) Harcourt)

The titles ranked in these monthly Best-Seller Lists are selected by the Best-Seller List editors from among all adult nonfiction titles reported to The New York Times during December. These rankings reflect the combined print and e-book sales for the monthly sales period of December 1 through December 31. An asterisk (*) indicates that a title’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the title ranked above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Copyright © 2017 February 5, 2017 by The New York Times THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Editors’ Choice

TRANSIT, by Rachel Cusk. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.) A HOUSE FULL OF FEMALES: Plural Marriage and THE PATRIOTS, by Sana Krasikov. (Spiegel & Grau, $28.) The shadowy narrator of this novel, the second in a trilo- Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870, Krasikov’s sweeping debut novel, a historical gy, moves to London and begins to renovate a by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. (Knopf, $35.) Ulrich, a romance in the old style, juggles narratives and dilapidated house as she recovers from the death of her Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the descendant of time frames as it sends three generations of an marriage. She becomes a conduit for the stories told by generations of Mormons, consults diaries and letters to American Jewish family to Russia in their turns. the people she encounters. Compulsively readable and uncover how women experienced the contentious new ONCE WE WERE SISTERS: A Memoir, beautifully precise, the book is a meditation on the practice of polygamy, embraced by the church in the by Sheila Kohler. A South African novelist writes nature of self, freedom, narrative and reality. 1840s. (Penguin, paper, $16.) with “eternal regret” about her sister, who was abused ARTHUR AND SHERLOCK: Conan Doyle and the EARNING THE ROCKIES: How Geography Shapes and possibly killed by her husband, in this moving Creation of Holmes, by Michael Sims. (Bloomsbury, America’s Role in the World, by Robert D. Kaplan. memoir of love and sorrow. How did an obscure 26-year-old doctor achieve the Describing a cross-country $27.) (Random House, $27.) SIGNALS, The 21 most enduring literary accomplishment of his journey, Kaplan, a distinguished writer on foreign by Tim Gautreaux. (Knopf, $26.95.) stories in this collection, many of them set in generation in just six weeks? Sims proves an ingenious affairs, argues that geography and union made the Louisiana, begin as realistic fiction but march investigator in this magnificent work of scholarship. United States a world power. But he observes that inevitably into poetry. They reflect the influence of globalization diminishes America’s geographic SELECTION DAY, Gautreaux’s teacher, James Dickey, as well as by Aravind Adiga. (Scribner, $26.) advantages and erodes its unity. Poor brothers prepare to try out for Mumbai’s elite Flannery O’Connor. cricket team in a sweeping novel that pulses with THE CROSSING, by Andrew Miller. (Europa, paper, $18.) affection for Mumbai itself. Adiga writes with economy A closed-off, mysterious woman leaves her husband and The full reviews of these and other recent books and humor in a sinewy, compact prose. child and sails across the Atlantic alone in this elegantly are on the web: nytimes.com/books. written novel. Paperback Row

THE WIDOW, by Fiona Barton. (Berkley, $16.) German, interned, and felt the deep isolation that GIRL THROUGH GLASS, by Sari Wilson. (Harper After her husband dies in a gruesome accident, accompanies discrimination; later, living in 1930s Perennial, $15.99.) The choreographer George Jean, this debut novel’s namesake widow, is thrust Frankfurt, he dreams of escaping with Karin to Balanchine’s long shadow is evident in the sto- again into the spotlight. Her husband had been a America, whose allure is a bright spot amid Hit- ries of 11-year-old Mira, a ballet student in 1977, chief suspect in a missing child case that captivat- ler’s rise to power. and Kate, a present-day dance historian. As our ed the country, and his death has renewed interest reviewer, Namara Smith, put it, the novel is less in the crime. With some reporters suspecting Jean IN EUROPE’S SHADOW: Two Cold Wars and a Thir- about ballet “than the costs of early virtuosity — knows more than she has let on, she seems poised ty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond, by the feeling of being propelled by a force you don’t to reveal her story. Robert D. Kaplan. (Random House, $18.) Kaplan understand and can’t control.” first visited Romania more than three decades THEIR PROMISED LAND: My Grandparents in Love ago as a young journalist, reporting on the hor- and War, by Ian Buruma. (Penguin, $17.) Drawing rors under its repressive government. Drawing on thousands of his grandparents’ letters, Buru- on his reporting from later trips, he traces Roma- ma sketches the story of their marriage, which nia’s shift away from Communism, and attempts Joumana Khatib spanned World War I and II — and the turbulent to untangle the country’s myriad influences, from era in which they lived. His is a “wholly under- Orthodox Christianity to contemporary Russia. standing, moving account of what it meant to be Jewish and English in one of the most troubled CAST OF CHARACTERS: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, times of the last century,” our reviewer, Nick James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Fraser, said. Yorker, by Thomas Vinciguerra. (Norton, $18.95.) In this ensemble biography, Vinciguerra chron- CARRY ME, by Peter Behrens. (Anchor, $17.) The icles the early years of the magazine, roughly troubled times framed by war are also the back- spanning the Jazz Age through the end of World drop for Behrens’s novel, which tells the story War II, with a focus on how many of its editorial of Billy Lange and Karin, the German-Jewish stars shaped the The New Yorker’s legacy for de- woman he loves. Growing up in England and cades to come. Ireland during World War I, Billy saw his father, a