Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
Fiction
"Gone Girl," by Gillian Flynn (Crown: $25). A wife mysteriously disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary.
"Mary Coin," by Marisa Silver (Blue Rider Press: $26.95) A fictional tale inspired by Dorothea Lange's iconic photo of a migrant mother during the Great Depression.
"The Dinner," by Herman Koch (Hogarth: $24). How far parents are prepared to go to protect those they love is the topic of this dinner conversation.
"Tenth of December," by George Saunders (Random House: $26). A story collection examining what happens when we are brought up short by life.
"The Accursed," by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco: $27.99) Vampires and ghosts prey on the daughters of elite families in Princeton at the turn of the century.
"The Fault in Our Stars," by John Green (Dutton: $17.99). Two teenagers fighting cancer fall in love.
"The Storyteller," by Jodi Picoult (Atria: $28.99) A chance encounter leads a woman to discoveries about her family's fate in a Nazi camp.
"Murder Below Montparnasse," by Cara Black (Soho Crime: $25.95) An investigator stumbles through the world of black-market art in Paris.
"Beautiful Ruins," by Jess Walters (Harper: $25.99). A tangled love story spanning 50 years from Hollywood to the Italian coast.
"A Week in Winter," by Maeve Binchy (Knopf: $26.95). An eccentric group of guests visits a country inn on the Irish coast.
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