Inside the List
By GREGORY COWLES
M. L. Stedman — whose novel “The Light Between Oceans” enters the list at No. 7 — really doesn’t like publicity.
August 19, 2012
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M. L. Stedman — whose novel “The Light Between Oceans” enters the list at No. 7 — really doesn’t like publicity.
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
This Week | Last Week | Hardcover Fiction | Weeks on List |
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1 | 1 | GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown, $25.) A woman disappears on her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? | 9 | |
2 | ODD APOCALYPSE, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $28.) Odd Thomas, who can communicate with the dead, explores the mysteries of an old estate now owned by a billionaire. | 1 | ||
3 | 2 | WHERE WE BELONG, by Emily Giffin. (St. Martin's, $27.99.) A woman’s successful life is disrupted by the appearance of an 18-year-old girl with a link to her past. | 2 | |
4 | 3 | FRIENDS FOREVER, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $28.) Three boys and two girls who meet in kindergarten maintain their bonds as they grow to adulthood. | 2 | |
5 | 4 | BLACK LIST, by Brad Thor. (Emily Bestler/Atria, $27.99.) If the counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath can discover who targeted him for death, he can prevent a terrorist attack. | 2 | |
6 | 5 | THE FALLEN ANGEL, by Daniel Silva. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.) Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, discovers a global criminal enterprise behind a murder at the Vatican. | 3 | |
7 | THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, by M. L. Stedman. (Scribner, $25.) An Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife decide to keep a baby who has washed ashore. | 1 | ||
8 | 7 | I, MICHAEL BENNETT, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A New York detective takes refuge with his 10 children in an upstate cabin. | 4 | |
9 | 8 | SHADOW OF NIGHT, by Deborah Harkness. (Viking, $28.95.) An Oxford scholar/witch and a vampire geneticist pursue history, secrets and each other in Elizabethan London. | 4 | |
10 | 10 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $35.) Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire." | 52 | |
11 | 6 | BROKEN HARBOR, by Tana French. (Viking, $27.95.) A Dublin murder squad detective’s investigation of a crime in a seaside town evokes memories of his hard childhood there. | 2 | |
12 | 9 | CREOLE BELLE, by James Lee Burke. (Simon & Schuster, $27.99.) The Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux hunts for a missing Cajun singer. | 3 | |
13 | HAVEN, by Kay Hooper. (Berkley, $26.95.) The F.B.I. agent Noah Bishop and his special crimes unit help two sisters probe the secrets of a North Carolina town. | 1 | ||
14 | 12 | BACKFIRE, by Catherine Coulter. (Putnam, $26.95.) The F.B.I. agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock investigate the murder of a judge. | 4 | |
15 | 13 | THE SANDCASTLE GIRLS, by Chris Bohjalian. (Doubleday, $25.95.) A woman of Armenian descent pursues her family’s history and explores a World War I romance — and a secret. | 3 | |
16 | * | 11 | JUDGMENT CALL, by J. A. Jance. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $25.99.) Joanna Brady, an Arizona sheriff, must function as both a law officer and a mother when her daughter’s high school principal is murdered. | 2 |