The American Best Seller Books In August 2013 (Fiction)

THIS WEEK		LAST WEEK	COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION	WEEKS ON LIST
1		1	THE CUCKOO'S CALLING, by Robert Galbraith. (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown.) The struggling detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide; by J.K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.	3
2			THE REDEMPTION OF CALLIE AND KAYDEN, by Jessica Sorensen. (Forever.) For Callie to save Kayden, she must face her greatest fear and expose her own painful secrets.	1
3			COMPLETE ME, by J. Kenner. (Bantam.) Not even Damien Stark can run from his ghosts or shield himself and Nikki Fairchild from danger. Book 3 of the Stark erotic trilogy.	1
4			THREE LITTLE WORDS, by Susan Mallery. (Harlequin.) Feeling cursed in the romance department, Isabel goes home to Fool’s Gold, Calif., to run the family bridal shop.	1
5		3	INFERNO, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday.) The symbologist Robert Langdon, on the run in Florence, must decipher a series of codes created by a Dante-loving scientist.	12
6		2	THE ENGLISH GIRL, by Daniel Silva. (Harper.) Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, steps in to help the British prime minister, whose lover has been kidnapped.	3
7			JANE'S MELODY, by Ryan Winfield. (Birch Paper Press.) A grieving mother takes in a young street musician to learn about her daughter’s death and finds herself falling for him.	1
8		4	AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead.) A multigenerational family saga centers on a brother and sister born in Afghanistan.	11
9			MAGIC RISES, by Ilona Andrews. (Ace.) The mercenary Kate Daniels and her lover, the Beast Lord Curran, search for the panacea that will help ensure the survival of the Pack’s shapeshifting children.	1
10		8	GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown.) A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?	59
11		7	SECOND HONEYMOON, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. (Little, Brown.) The F.B.I. agent John O’Hara investigates the murder of a pair of newlyweds.	6
12			THE DARKEST CRAVING, by Gena Showalter. (Harlequin.) The half-Fae Josephina Aisling is being hunted by a brutal enemy and Kane is her only source of protection.	1
13		5	HIDDEN ORDER, by Brad Thor. (Emily Bestler/Atria.) The counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath uncovers a plot with roots in the 18th century.	4
14			THE HIGHWAY, by C. J. Box. (Minotaur.) The former investigator Cody Hoyt searches for two teenage girls who disappeared on a cross-country trip.	1
15		11	THE SILENT WIFE, by A. S. A. Harrison. (Penguin.) Told in alternating voices, this is a chilling portrait of a marriage gone terribly awry