Sunday, February 23, 2014
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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) |
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THE BOOK THIEF, by Markus Zusak. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) A girl saves books from Nazi burning; now a movie. (Ages 14 and up) |
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LOOKING FOR ALASKA, by
John Green. (Penguin Group.) A boy seeking excitement finds that and
more in a girl named Alaska. (Ages 14 to 17) |
64 |
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HOLLOW CITY, by Ransom
Riggs. (Quirk Books.) In 1940 London, Jacob Portman and his friends try
to find a cure for their headmistress, Miss Peregrine. (Ages 12 and up)
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MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN, by
Ransom Riggs. (Quirk Books.) An island, an abandoned orphanage and a
collection of curious photographs. (Ages 12 and up) |
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PAPER TOWNS, by John Green. (Penguin Group.) The girl Quentin loves disappears. (Ages 14 and up) |
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ELEANOR AND PARK, by Rainbow Rowell. (St. Martin's Press.) The world opposes the love of two outcast teenagers. (Ages 14 to 18) |
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AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES, by John Green. (Penguin Group.) Colin Singleton wants to break the pattern of being dumped. (Ages 12 and up) |
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THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, by Stephen Chbosky. (Simon & Schuster.) What it's like to grow up. (Ages 14 and up) |
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THIS STAR WON'T GO OUT, by
Esther Earl with Lori and Wayne Earl. (Penguin Group.) A memoir of a
teenager who died of thyroid cancer; the inspiration for "The Fault in
Our Stars." (Ages 12 and up) |
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A version of this Best Sellers report appears in the March 2, 2014 issue of The New York
Times Book Review. Rankings on weekly lists reflect sales for the week ending February 15, 2014.
SERIES JUVENILES
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DIVERGENT, by Veronica
Roth. (HarperCollins Publishers.) A girl must prove her mettle in a
dystopia divided into five factions. (Ages 14 and up) |
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VAMPIRE ACADEMY, by Richelle Mead. (Penguin Group.) Undead boarding school. (Ages 12 and up) |
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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. (Abrams Books.) The travails of adolescence, in cartoons. (Ages 9 to 12) |
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THE HUNGER GAMES, by Suzanne Collins. (Scholastic.) In a dystopia, a girl fights for survival on live TV. (Ages 12 and up) |
182 |
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THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS, by Cassandra Clare. (Simon & Schuster.) A world of demons and warriors. (Ages 14 and up) |
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THE MAZE RUNNER, by James Dashner. (Random House Publishing.) Amnesiac teenagers endure a series of trials. (Ages 12 and up) |
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LUNAR CHRONICLES, by Marissa Meyer. (Macmillan.) Cinderella meets science fiction in this intergalactic struggle. (Ages 12 and up) |
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HEROES OF OLYMPUS, by Rick Riordan. (Disney Publishing Worldwide.) A new generation of demigods embarks on adventures. (Ages 9 to 12) |
61 |
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PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS, by
Rick Riordan. (Disney Publishing Worldwide.) A boy and his demigod
friends battle mythological monsters. (Ages 9 to 12) |
328 |
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I AM NUMBER FOUR, by
Pittacus Lore. (HarperCollins Publishers.) Members of another
civilization live secretly among Earth-dwellers. (Ages 14 to 17)
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A version of this list appears in the March 2, 2014 issue of The New York Times
Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending February 15, 2014.
An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable
from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
receiving bulk orders.
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