Hoping to read more for the New Year but not sure where to start? The below is a list of the top 5 international best sellers and a “sneak peak” into what you can expect!
Best Seller – Fiction
- Rogue lawyer by John Grisham
- The attorney Sebastian Rudd is a “lone gunman” who hates injustice and the system and defends unpopular clients
- Cross Justice by James Patterson
- Detective Alex Cross returns to Starksville, N.C., his hometown, for the first time in 35 years, to help a cousin who has been accused of murder
- All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before an during World War II
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- A psychological thriller set in the environs of London
- See Me by Nicholas Sparks
- A couple in love are threatened by secretes from the past
Best Seller – Non-Fiction
- Killing Reagan by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
- The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the events surrounding the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981
- Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
- The war against the Barbary pirates in 1801
- Humans of New York: Stories by Brandon Stanton
- Photographs and interviews from the creater of the blog and the book “Humans of New York”
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesA meditation on race in America as well as a personal story by Atlantic’s national correspondent
- What If? By Randall Munroe
- Scientific (but often humorous) answers to hypothetical questions, based in part on the author’s website, xkcd.com
Source: The New York Times International Best Sellers
– Yun