Top Reads: Nicholas Sparks' THE LONGEST RIDE Tops New York Times Best Seller List, Week Ending 10/6

By: Tyler Peterson Oct. 06, 2013

Since there's no end-all-be-all 'best seller' list, BWW Books has rounded up both The New York Times' top sellers as well as Amazon's - providing you with your one-stop look at this week's top reads!

Nicholas Sparks' latest romance THE LONGEST RIDE climbed to the top of the New York Times best seller list for the week ending Oct. 6. Last week, the novel claimed the eighth spot. J.D. Robb's latest THANKLESS IN DEATH took second, while Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison's THE FINAL CUT rounded out the top three.

On the non-fiction side of the things, Si Robertson and Mark Schlabach's SI-COLOGY 1 held on to the number one spot, with Billy Crystal's STILL FOOTIN' 'EM took the second spot. Piper Kerman's ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, the inspiration for the hit Netflix series, was the third best selling non-fiction work of the week.

The top 10 for fiction, nonfiction, and more are below!

The New York Times Best Sellers
Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
1) THE LONGEST RIDE - Nicholas Sparks
2) THANKLESS IN DEATH - J. D. Robb
3) THE FINAL CUT - Catherine Coulter and J. T. Ellison
4) THE QUEST - Nelson DeMille
5) NEVER GO BACK - Lee Child
6) THE HUSBAND'S SECRET - Liane Moriarty
7) W IS FOR WASTED - Sue Grafton
8) DEADLY HEAT - Richard Castle
9) THE RACKETEER - John Grisham
10) OUT OF LINE - Jen McLaughlin

Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
1) SI-COLOGY 1 - Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach
2) STILL FOOLIN' 'EM - Billy Crystal
3) ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK - Piper Kerman
4) HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY - Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach
5) EMPTY MANSIONS - Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr.
6) LEAN IN - Sheryl Sandberg
7) ZEALOT: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JESUS OF NAZARETH - Reza Aslan
8) GRAIN BRAIN - David Perlmutter with Kristin Loberg
9) SIMPLE DREAMS - Linda Ronstadt.
10) PROOF OF HEAVEN - Eben Alexander

For the full list of New York Times Best Sellers, click here.

Amazon Top Best Sellers

1) THE HOUSE OF HADES (Heroes of Olympus, Book 4) - by Rick Riordan (Release: Oct. 8, 2013)
2) THE REASON I JUMP - Naoki Higadisha
3) KILLING JESUS - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
4) DAVID AND GOLIATH: UNDERDOGS, MISFITS, AND THE ART OF BATTLING GIANTS - Malcolm Gladwell
5) ALLEGIANT (DIVERGENT) - Veronica Roth (Release: Oct. 22, 2013)
6) DOCTOR SLEEP - Stephen King
7) DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: HARD LUCK - Jeff Kinney (Release: Nov. 5, 2013)
8) GRAIN BRAIN - David Perlmutter with Kristin Loberg
9) THE 100 - Jorge Cruise
10) RUSH REVERE AND THE BRAVE PILGRIMS: TIME-TRAVEL ADVENTURES WITH EXCEPTIONAL AMERICANS - Rush Limbaugh (Release: Oct. 29, 2013)

For the the full list of Amazon's top best sellers, click here.