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BEST SELLERS LIST Dear Best Sellers Client, We hope you have been enjoying your subscription to The New York Times advance Best Sellers List. Beginning with the advance BSL edition that will be delivered today for February 5, 2017 there will be revisions to multiple categories in the publication. These changes will span weekly and monthly lists. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at 212-556-1200 or email us at [email protected]. Sincerely, TimesDigest Customer Service Copyright © 2017 February 5, 2017 by The New York Times THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK RE­­VIEW Print Hardcover Best Sellers THIS LAST WEEKS THIS LAST WEEKS WEEK WEEK Fiction ON LIST WEEK WEEK Nonfiction ON LIST NEVER NEVER, by James Patterson and Candice Fox. (Little, 1 1 HILLBILLY ELEGY, by J. D. Vance. (HarperCollins) A Yale Law 26 1 1 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 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 2 (Doubleday) A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, role in the Kennedy transition. envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels. 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 3 became a single father when his marriage and business collapsed World War II. learns to take a chance on a new love. 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 4 alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the couple who star in the HGTV show “Fixer Upper.” Mob and Indian casinos. 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 5 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 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 6 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. 5 CROSS THE LINE, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown) Detective 9 4 THE PRINCESS DIARIST, by Carrie Fisher. (Blue Rider) 4 7 7 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. 7 SMALL GREAT THINGS, by Jodi Picoult. (Ballantine) A medical 15 TEARS WE CANNOT STOP, by Michael Eric Dyson. (St. Martin’s) 1 8 8 crisis entangles a black nurse, a white supremacist father and a A frank and searing discussion of race. white lawyer. 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 9 lawyer Stone Barrington faces danger when he finds himself in Honduran rain forest. possession of a retired C.I.A. agent’s explosive memoir. * 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 10 in chemically controlled torture, on the run from her former then-segregated NASA. The basis of the movie. employers, takes on one last job. 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 11 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. 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. 12 lives of two families remade by divorce. 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. 13 count undergoes 30 years of house arrest in the Metropol hotel, across from the Kremlin. 11 THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, 9 14 Straus & Giroux) How globalization, climate change and the THE WRONG SIDE OF GOODBYE, by Michael Connelly. (Little, 11 accelerating pace of technology are are reshaping the world, and 14 Brown) The detective Harry Bosch aids a billionaire in search of a what we can do about it. possible heir. 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 15 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 NEVER NEVER, by James Patterson and Candice Fox. (Little, 1 1 HIDDEN FIGURES, by Margot Lee Shetterly. (Morrow/ 6 1 1 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. 1 A DOG’S PURPOSE, by W. Bruce Cameron. (Forge Books) A 7 2 HILLBILLY ELEGY, by J. D. Vance. (HarperCollins) A Yale Law 26 2 2 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. 2 A MAN CALLED OVE, by Fredrik Backman. (Washington Square) 35 3 3 THREE DAYS IN JANUARY, by Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney. 2 A curmudgeon’s gruff exterior masks a generosity of spirit. 3 Originally published in Sweden in 2014. (Morrow/HarperCollins) Eisenhower’s farewell address and his role in the Kennedy transition. FEVERSONG, by Karen Marie Moning. (Delacorte) A group of 1 4 4 KILLING THE RISING SUN, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. 19 superhuman beings fight to save Dublin (and humanity); the 4 conclusion of the Fever series. (Holt) The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the final years of World War II. EGOMANIAC, by Vi Keeland. (EverAfter Romance) An embittered 1 5 7 THE MAGNOLIA STORY, by Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with 14 attorney and a psychologist share an office space and a growing 5 attraction. Mark Dagostino. (W Publishing/Thomas Nelson) The couple who star in the HGTV show “Fixer Upper.” 6 THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. (Riverhead) A 100 6 5 THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD, by Douglas Preston. 3 psychological thriller set in the environs of London is full of 6 complications and betrayals. (Grand Central) A frightening search for a lost civilization in the Honduran rain forest. 5 THE WHISTLER, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) A whistleblower 13 7 9 THE UNDOING PROJECT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton) How the 7 alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the 7 Mob and Indian casinos. psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky upended assumptions about the decision-making process and invented the 7 MILK AND HONEY, by Rupi Kaur. (Andrews McMeel) Poetic 6 field of behavioral economics. 8 approaches to surviving adversity and loss. 12 ALEXANDER HAMILTON, by Ron Chernow. (Penguin) A biography 56 8 4 THE MISTRESS, by Danielle Steel.
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