Inside the List
By GREGORY COWLES
Richard Flanagan’s “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” No. 10 in hardcover fiction, is the ninth consecutive winner of the Man Booker Prize to make our list.
November 02, 2014
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Richard Flanagan’s “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” No. 10 in hardcover fiction, is the ninth consecutive winner of the Man Booker Prize to make our list.
This Week | Paperback Nonfiction | Weeks on List |
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1 | RISE OF ISIS, by Jay Sekulow with Jordan Sekulow and others. (Howard Books.) An examination of the jihadist group and a warning about its dangers. | 1 | |
2 | UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House.) An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his plane went down over the Pacific. | 12 | |
3 | THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. (Penguin.) A group of American rowers pursued gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. | 21 | |
4 | THE HOT ZONE, by Richard Preston. (Anchor.) The discovery of the Ebola virus, and the efforts to keep it from spreading; first published in 1994. | 52 | |
5 | WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. (Vintage.) A life-changing hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. | 82 | |
6 | OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown.) Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent. | 175 | |
7 | THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House.) An examination of the science behind habits, how we form them and break them. | 41 | |
8 | * | AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. (Harper/HarperCollins.) A memoir about battlefield experiences in Iraq by the Navy SEALs sniper. | 51 |
9 | QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Broadway.) Introverts — approximately one-third of the population — are undervalued in American society. | 89 | |
10 | * | THIS IS THE STORY OF A HAPPY MARRIAGE, by Ann Patchett. (Harper Perennial.) A collection of essays by the novelist. | 1 |