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New York Times bestsellers

October 8, 2013 at 7:04PM

FICTION

1. THE LONGEST RIDE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) The lives of two couples converge unexpectedly.

2. THE QUEST, by Nelson DeMille. (Center Street) Two journalists join an elderly priest who has recently escaped from an Ethiopian jail in a search for a holy relic.

3. THANKLESS IN DEATH, by J.D. Robb. (Putnam) Lt. Eve Dallas searches for a young man who murdered his parents; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.

4. W IS FOR WASTED, by Sue Grafton. (Marian Wood/Putnam) A homeless man inexplicably leaves $600,000 to Kinsey Millhone.

5. NEVER GO BACK, by Lee Child. (Delacorte) Jack Reacher is thrown into jail on trumped-up charges.

6. BLEEDING EDGE, by Thomas Pynchon. (Penguin Press) A fraud investigator and Upper West Side mom looks into a suspicious computer security company in 2001.

7. THE FINAL CUT, by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison. (Putnam) Chief Inspector Nicholas Drummond of Scotland Yard joins FBI special agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich in a hunt for an international jewel thief in the first volume of a new series.

8. DEADLY HEAT, by Richard Castle. (Hyperion) NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat and journalist Jameson Rook search for the former CIA station chief who ordered her mother's execution.

9. THE CUCKOO'S CALLING, by Robert Galbraith. (Mullholland Books/Little, Brown) A detective investigates a suicide; by J.K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.

10. INFERNO, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday) Symbologist Robert Langdon, on the run in Florence, must decipher a series of codes created by a Dante-loving scientist.

NONFICTION

1. SI-COLOGY 1, by Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach. (Howard Books) Tales from Phil's youngest brother, retired from the Army, who works in the Duck Commander workshop.

2. STILL FOOLIN' 'EM, by Billy Crystal. (Holt) The 65-year-old comedian's reminiscences and his complaints about aging.

3. LEAN IN, by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell. (Knopf) The chief operating officer of Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence.

4. ZEALOT, by Reza Aslan. (Random House) A biography of Jesus of Nazareth presents him in the context of his times as the leader of a revolutionary movement.

5. HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, by Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach. (Howard Books) The Duck Commander pays tribute to "faith, family and ducks."

6. THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions) The talk-radio host offers 11 proposals for returning to America's founding principles.

7. GRAIN BRAIN, by David Perlmutter with Kristin Loberg. (Little, Brown) The deleterious effect of carbohydrates on the brain, and how to reverse it.

8. EMPTY MANSIONS, by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr. (Ballantine) The eccentric life of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, who died at the age of 104 in 2011.

9. SIMPLE DREAMS, by Linda Ronstadt. (Simon & Schuster) The singer looks back on her life and career.

10. REIGN OF ERROR, by Diane Ravitch. (Knopf) An education scholar denounces what she claims is an effort by foundations, individual billionaires and hedge fund managers to destroy public education.

ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS

1. DARING GREATLY, by Brene Brown. (Gotham) How the courage to be vulnerable changes the way we live, love, parent and lead. (b)

2. E-SQUARED, by Pam Grout. (Hay House) Nine spiritual experiments to help change the focus of your thoughts.

3. THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (Northfield) How to communicate love in a way your spouse will understand.

4. LOOPTAIL, by Bruce Poon Tip. (Business Plus) A vision for linking social responsibility and business practices, from the founder of the travel company G Adventures.

5. THE VALUE OF DEBT, by Thomas J. Anderson. (Wiley) An argument that debt can provide long-term benefits in the management of individual and family wealth.

Rankings reflect sales at venues nationwide for the week ending Sept. 21. An (x) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) indicates that some sellers report receiving bulk orders.