New York Times Bestseller list: No. 1 titles for week ended June 22, 2014

Aimee Bellah

LOS ANGELES , June 23, 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 June 22, 2014:

Paperback Nonfiction: THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. (Penguin.) A group of American rowers pursued gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.

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: A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam.) In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering; Book 1 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."

Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction: HARD CHOICES, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster.) Clinton’s memoir focuses on her years as secretary of state and her views about the American role in the world.

Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (Northfield.) How to communicate love in a way a spouse will understand.

Paperback Graphic Books: THE FORGOTTEN MAN: GRAPHIC EDITION, by Amity Shlaes, Paul Rivoche and Chuck Dixon. (Harper Perennial.) This reinterpretation of the New Deal and the Great Depression is adapted to graphic novel form.

E-Book Nonfiction: HARD CHOICES, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster.) Clinton’s memoir focuses on her years as secretary of state and her views about the American role in the world.

Combined Print & E-Book Fiction: WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD, by Diana Gabaldon. (Delacorte.) In the eighth Outlander time-traveling romance, Jamie Fraser and his family face challenges in the 18th and 21st centuries.

Hardcover Fiction: WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD, by Diana Gabaldon. (Delacorte.) In the eighth Outlander time-traveling romance, Jamie Fraser and his family face challenges in the 18th and 21st centuries.

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: HARD CHOICES, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster.) Clinton’s memoir focuses on her years as secretary of state and her views about the American role in the world.

Manga: CRIMSON SPELL, VOL. 4, by Ayano Yamane. (VIZ Media.) Prince Vald is forever cursed to transform into a demon every night, unless a powerful sorcerer named Halvi can help him break the spell!

Children’s Picture Books: THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT, by Drew Daywalt. Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. (Philomel.) A 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 that has been 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: WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD, by Diana Gabaldon. (Delacorte.) In the eighth Outlander time-traveling romance, Jamie Fraser and his family face challenges in the 18th and 21st centuries.

Business Books: 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.

Political Books: 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.

Science Times: QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Crown.) Introverts -- one-third of the population -- are undervalued in American society.

Food and Fitness: GRAIN BRAIN, by David Perlmutter with Kristin Loberg. (Little, Brown.) The deleterious effect of carbohydrates on the brain, and how to reverse it.

Sports: THE CLOSER, by Mariano Rivera with Wayne Coffey. (Little, Brown.) A memoir by the great Yankees pitcher.

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