Best-selling books

From Publishers Weekly

Sun., Aug. 3, 2014

Fiction

1. “A Perfect Life,” Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $28)

2. “Tom Clancy: Support and Defend (A Campus Novel),” Mark Greaney (Putnam, $28.95)

3. “The Heist: A Novel (Gabriel Allon),” Daniel Silva (Harper, $27.99)

4. “The Book of Life: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy),” Deborah Harkness (Viking, $28.95)

5. “Invisible,” James Patterson, David Ellis (Little, Brown, $28)

6. “Act of War,” Brad Thor (Atria, $27.99)

7. “ Top Secret Twenty-One: A Stephanie Plum Novel,” Janet Evanovich (Bantam, $28)

8. “ Mr. Mercedes,” Stephen King (Scribner, $30)

9. “ The Goldfinch,” Donna Tartt (Little, Brown, $30)

10. “The Silkworm (A Cormoran Strike Novel),” Robert Galbraith (Little, Brown/Mulholland, $28)

Nonfiction

1. “America,” Dinesh D’Souza, (Regnery, $29.99)

2. “One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future,” Ben Carson, M.D. /Candy Carson (Penguin/Sentinel, $25.95)

3. “Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. The Obamas,” Edward Klein (Regnery, $27.99)

4. “Hard Choices,” Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster, $35)

5. “Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Little Golden Book,” Diane Muldrow (Random/Golden Books, $28)

6. “The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee,” Marja Mills (Penguin, $27.95)

7. “David and Goliath,” Malcolm Gladwell, (Little, Brown, $29)

8. “Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive,” T.D. Jakes (FaithWords, $25)

9. “Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain,” Steven D. Levitt/Stephen J. Dubner (William Morrow, $28.99)

10. “The Family of Jesus (Life-Changing Bible Study Series),” Karen Kingsbury (Howard Books, $19.99)

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