Recommendations Inspired by NY Times Best Sellers: February 15, 2015

Here is the New York Times Best Sellers List from February 15, 2015 and recommended readalikes for each title.

#1 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins: crime fiction set in London

• Blue Mondayby Nicci French
• The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
• An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Clubby Dorothy Sayers
• Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
• My Recommendation: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

#2 Private Vegas by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro: mysteries set in Las Vegas

• So Damn Lucky by Deborah Coonts
• The Ragged End of Nowhere by Roy Chaney
• To the Ninesby Janet Evanovich
• Moon Music by Faye Kellerman
• The Other Side of Silence by Bill Pronzini
• My Recommendation: I Am Not A Psychic! by Richard Belzer

#3 Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James: read-alikes

• Rushby Maya Banks
• The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
• In the Cut by Susanne Moore
• Whip Smart: A Memoir by Melissa Febos 
• My recommendation: Bared to You by Sylvia Day

#4 All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr: more titles with blind protagonists

• Homer & Langleyby E.L. Doctorow
• Blindness by Jose Saramago
• How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
• What I Loved by Suri Hustvedt
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo 
• My Recommendation: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

#5 Viper Game by Christine Feehan: paranormal romance

• Winter Witchby Paula Brackston
• The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
• Night Broken by Patricia Briggs
• A Breath of Snow and Ashesby Diana Gabaldon
• Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts
• My recommendation: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris