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New York Times bestsellers

September 16, 2014 at 6:09PM

FICTION

1. THE LONG WAY HOME, by Louise Penny. (Minotaur) Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, retired from the Sûreté du Québec and settled in the village of Three Pines, searches for a neighbor's missing husband.

2. COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE, by Haruki Murakami. (Knopf) A young man's difficult coming-of-age.

3. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown) A painting becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.

4. BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam) Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends?

5. THE BROKEN EYE, by Brent Weeks. (Orbit) A fantasy sequel to "The Black Prism" and "The Blinding Knife."

6. ADULTERY, by Paulo Coelho. (Knopf) A married journalist risks everything when she embarks on an affair.

7. MEAN STREAK, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central) A North Carolina pediatrician is held captive by a mysterious man.

8. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr. (Scribner) The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II.

9. WE ARE NOT OURSELVES, by Matthew Thomas. (Simon & Schuster) Three generations of a New York Irish-American family wrestle with economic and domestic aspirations and, finally, with a terrible disease.

10. THE 6TH EXTINCTION, by James Rollins. (Morrow/HarperCollins) The 10th Sigma Force novel offers Nazis, an ancient secret, a ticking nuclear clock and alien life-forms.

NONFICTION

1. ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. (Sentinel) Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems.

2. THE WAY FORWARD, by Paul Ryan. (Twelve) The Wisconsin representative and 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee tells his personal story and describes plans to make government "simpler, smaller, smarter."

3. AMERICA, by Dinesh D'Souza. (Regnery) A defense of America against the view that its power in the world should be diminished; also a documentary film.

4. THE ORGANIZED MIND, by Daniel J. Levitin. (Dutton) A professor draws on research in neuroscience to explain how organization can help us manage information in our lives.

5. IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE, by Hampton Sides. (Doubleday) An 1879 polar voyage gone terribly wrong.

6. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House) An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

7. I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. (Little, Brown) The experience of the young Pakistani advocate for women's education shot by the Taliban.

8. CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by Thomas Piketty. (Belknap/Harvard University) A French economist predicts worsening inequality and proposes solutions.

9. HARD CHOICES, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster) Clinton's memoir focuses on her years as secretary of state.

10. EXCELLENT SHEEP, by William Deresiewicz. (Free Press) A former professor denounces anxious, hoop-jumping students on a track from elite universities to Wall Street.

ADVICE, MISCELLANEOUS AND HOW-TO

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

2. 100 DAYS OF REAL FOOD, by Lisa Leake. (Morrow/HarperCollins) Wholesome, family-friendly recipes that are easy to prepare. (b)

3. IT STARTS WITH FOOD, by Dallas Hartwig and Melissa Hartwig. (Victory Belt) A 30-day plan for sustaining wellness and balance.

4. THE BEST YES, by Lysa TerKeurst. (Nelson Books/Thomas Nelson) A spirituality-based guide to managing the multiple demands on busy lives.

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

Rankings reflect sales at venues nationwide for the week ending Aug. 30. 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.