New York Times Paperback Trade Fiction Best Sellers 2013 Complete List Page 1

There are 121 books in the New York Times Paperback Trade Fiction Best Sellers 2013 list. Here are the 30 books ranked from 1 to 30.

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1. Fifty Shades Of Grey

Weeks on the list: 52

by: E L James
Release date: Jan 29, 2013
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An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy.

2. Fifty Shades Darker

Weeks on the list: 50

by: E L James
Release date: Jan 03, 2017
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Ana Steele learns more about Christian Grey’s troubled past; the second book in a trilogy.

3. Fifty Shades Freed

Weeks on the list: 49

by: E L James
Release date: Jan 16, 2018
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The final book in an erotic trilogy.

4. The Harbinger

Weeks on the list: 42

by: Jonathan Cahn
Release date: Jan 03, 2012
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A man tells of his encounters with a mysterious figure who has given him a series of messages that hold the secret of America’s future.

5. The Alchemist

Weeks on the list: 39

by: Paulo Coelho
Release date: Oct 13, 2009
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In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny. First published in 1993.

6. Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Weeks on the list: 37

by: Maria Semple
Release date: Aug 14, 2012
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A teenage daughter compiles emails, official documents and secret correspondence in an effort to find her eccentric mother.

7. The Light Between Oceans

Weeks on the list: 37

by: M L Stedman
Release date: Jul 31, 2012
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An Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife decide to keep a baby who has washed ashore.

8. Beautiful Ruins

Weeks on the list: 37

by: Jess Walter
Release date: Jun 12, 2012
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Ruins both emotional and architectural, in Italy, Hollywood and elsewhere, figure in this sweeping novel.

9. Life Of Pi

Weeks on the list: 34

by: Yann Martel
Release date: Jun 04, 2002
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An allegory on the high seas, in which a teenage boy and a 450-pound tiger are thrown together in a lifeboat after a shipwreck.

10. World War Z

Weeks on the list: 33

by: Max Brooks
Release date: Sep 12, 2006
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An “oral history” of an imagined Zombie War that nearly destroys civilization.

11. The Paris Wife

Weeks on the list: 32

by: Paula McLain
Release date: Feb 22, 2011
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Hadley Richardson comes into her own as Ernest Hemingway’s long-suffering first wife in this novel, set in Paris.

12. The Orphan Master’S Son

Weeks on the list: 25

by: Adam Johnson
Release date: Jan 01, 2012
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A young North Korean is both victim and perpetrator of countless crimes.

13. Joyland

Weeks on the list: 21

by: Stephen King
Release date: Jan 01, 2013
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In North Carolina in 1973, a college student working at an amusement park confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

14. Me Before You

Weeks on the list: 20

by: Jojo Moyes
Release date: Dec 31, 2012
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A young woman who has barely been farther afield than her English village finds herself while caring for a wealthy, embittered quadriplegic. Originally published in 2012.

15. The Language Of Flowers

Weeks on the list: 20

by: Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Release date: Jan 01, 2011
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A young woman’s gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others, even as she struggles with her own troubled past.

16. Bared To You

Weeks on the list: 18

by: Sylvia Day
Release date: Feb 01, 2014
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Two troubled people develop an intense, obsessive relationship.

17. The Casual Vacancy

Weeks on the list: 18

by: J K Rowling
Release date: Sep 27, 2012
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The sudden death of a parish councilman reveals bitter social divisions in an idyllic English town; a novel for adults by the creator of Harry Potter.

18. Orphan Train

Weeks on the list: 17

by: Christina Baker Kline
Release date: Apr 02, 2013
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A historical novel about orphans swept off the streets of New York and sent to the Midwest in the 1920s.

19. Dark Places

Weeks on the list: 16

by: Gillian Flynn
Release date: May 05, 2009
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A woman who, as a child, was spared when her mother and sisters were murdered begins to reinvestigate the case against her imprisoned brother.

20. The Silent Wife

Weeks on the list: 16

by: A S A Harrison
Release date: Jun 25, 2013
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Told in alternating voices, this is a chilling portrait of a marriage gone terribly awry.

21. Safe Haven

Weeks on the list: 15

by: Nicholas Sparks
Release date: Aug 02, 2011
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A young woman, while putting down roots in a small North Carolina town, is haunted by a dark secret from her past.

22. Under The Dome, Part 1

Weeks on the list: 15

by: Stephen King
Release date: Dec 24, 2009
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The town of Chester’s Mill, Me., is suddenly and inexplicably trapped by an invisible force field. Sealed off from the rest of the world, the townspeople fall prey to a devious politician.

23. The Silver Linings Playbook

Weeks on the list: 15

by: Matthew Quick
Release date: Apr 27, 2010
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A man recently released from a mental institution has two obsessions: his estranged wife and the Philadelphia Eagles. The basis of the movie; originally published in 2009.

24. Reflected In You

Weeks on the list: 14

by: Sylvia Day
Release date: Oct 02, 2012
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Eva and Gideon, of “Bared to You,” continue to struggle to make their relationship work.

25. Flight Behavior

Weeks on the list: 14

by: Barbara Kingsolver
Release date: Jun 04, 2013
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An Appalachian woman becomes involved in an effort to save monarch butterflies.

26. Ender’s Game

Weeks on the list: 13

by: Orson Scott Card
Release date: Apr 01, 2010
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Government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers.

27. Death Comes To Pemberley

Weeks on the list: 13

by: P D James
Release date: Jan 01, 2011
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Six years after Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy marry, their comfortable life is shaken by a murder, as James recreates the world of “Pride and Prejudice” with a mysterious twist.

28. The Racketeer

Weeks on the list: 11

by: John Grisham
Release date: Oct 23, 2012
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An imprisoned ex-lawyer schemes to exchange this information about who murdered a judge for his freedom.

29. A Game Of Thrones

Weeks on the list: 10

by: George RR Martin
Release date: Jan 01, 2003
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In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering.

30. Dear Life

Weeks on the list: 10

by: Alice Munro
Release date: Jan 01, 2012
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A new collection of stories, some “autobiographical in feeling.”

Last updated on December 8, 2021