- Associated Press - Thursday, May 21, 2015

1. “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)

2. “14th Deadly Sin” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

3. “Memory Man” by David Balducci (Grand Central Publishing)

4. “The Wright Brothers” by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)

5. “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” by Dr. Seuss (Random House)

6. “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)

7. “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up” by Marie Kondo (Ten Speed)

8. “Gathering Prey” by John Sandford (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

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9. “The Forgotten Room” by Lincoln Child (Doubleday)

10. “Paper Towns” by John Green (Speak)

11. “Dry Bones” by Craig Johnson (Viking)

12. “The Luckiest Girl Alive” by Jessica Knoll (Simon & Schuster)

13. “The Heir” by Kiera Cass (Harper Teen)

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14. “Theodore Boone: The Fugitive” by John Grisham (Dutton)

15. “The Liar” by Nora Roberts (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

16. “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Caro Dweck (Ballantine)

17. “Solitude Creek” by Jeffery Deaver (Grand Central Publishing)

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18. “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press)

19. “The Longest Ride” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

20. “A Lucky Life Interrupted” by Tom Brokaw (Random)

21. “And the Good News Is…” by Dana Perino (Twelve)

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22. “Never Never: Part Two” by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher (Hoover Ink)

23. “Personal” by Lee Child (Dell)

24. “Fifty Shades Darker” by E.L. James (Vintage)

25. “The Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel” by Melissa de la Cruz (Disney-Hyperion)

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