New York Times Bestseller list: No. 1 titles for week ended May 25, 2014

Aimee Bellah

LOS ANGELES , May 27, 2014 (Industry Intelligence Inc.) – The No. 1 titles for 17 print and e-book categories reported by the New York Times Best Sellers List for the week ended May 25, 2014:

Paperback Nonfiction: HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson.) A boy's encounter with Jesus and the angels.

Paperback Trade Fiction: GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Broadway.) A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer?

Paperback Mass-Market Fiction: INFERNO, by Dan Brown. (Anchor.) The symbologist Robert Langdon, on the run in Florence, must decipher a series of codes created by a Dante-loving scientist.

Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction: CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by Thomas Piketty. (Belknap/Harvard University.) An analysis of centuries of economic history predicts worsening inequality.

Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: INSTINCT, by T. D. Jakes. (FaithWords.) The power of turning intuition into action.

Paperback Graphic Books: THE RETURN OF ZITA THE SPACEGIRL, by Ben Hatke. (First Second.) Zita, who is trapped on a penitentiary planet, must escape before the prison’s evil warden completes his plan to take over the galaxy.

E-Book Nonfiction: FINDING ME, by Michelle Knight with Michelle Burford. (Weinstein.) The story of a woman kidnapped in Cleveland in 2002, then tortured, who escaped in 2013.

Combined Print & E-Book Fiction: UNLUCKY 13, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown.) With the return of a killer who was presumed dead, the San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club take action.

Hardcover Fiction: UNLUCKY 13, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown.) With the return of a killer who was presumed dead, the San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club take action.

Hardcover Graphic Books: CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT?, by Roz Chast. (Bloomsbury.) In this memoir, the cartoonist examines her parents from their early days as mother and father to their later years facing old age and poor health.

Hardcover Nonfiction: CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by Thomas Piketty. (Belknap/Harvard University.) A French economist’s analysis of centuries of economic history predicts worsening inequality and proposes solutions.

Manga: MONSTER MUSUME, VOL. 3, by Okayado. (Seven Seas Entertainment.) A teenager signs up to help mythical creatures assimilate into society. How will he contend being roommates with a sexy snake woman, an alluring centaur girl and a harpy who likes to flirt?

Children’s Picture Books: THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT, by Drew Daywalt. Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. (Philomel.) A colorful problem arises when Duncan's crayons revolt. (Ages 3 to 7)

Children’s Middle Grade: WONDER, by R. J. Palacio. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) A boy with a facial deformity enters a mainstream school. (Ages 8 to 12)

Children’s Series Books: DIVERGENT, by Veronica Roth. (HarperCollins Publishers.) A girl must prove herself in a dystopia divided into five factions. (Ages 14 and up)

Children’s Young Adult: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, by John Green. (Penguin Group.) A 16-year-old heroine faces the medical realities of cancer. (Ages 14 and up)

E-Book Fiction: UNLUCKY 13, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown.) With the return of a killer who was presumed dead, the San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club take action.

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