View this week’s New York Times bestselling books below. Use these books as starting points for your book club.

#1 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Synopsis: A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?
Crown Publishing

#2 The Racketeer by John Grisham
An imprisoned ex-lawyer schemes to exchange this information about who murdered a judge for his freedom.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing

#3 Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
A college student falls in love with a tortured man with particular sexual tastes; the first of a trilogy.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing

#4 Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
A young woman, while putting down roots in a small North Carolina town, is haunted by a dark secret from her past.
Grand Central Publishing

#5 The Forgotten by David Baldacci
The military investigator John Puller probes his aunt’s mysterious death in Florida.
Grand Central Publishing

#6 Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson
Detective Alex Cross confronts both a hostage situation and a terrorist act at Christmas.
Little, Brown & Company

#7 Threat Vector by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney
As China threatens to invade Taiwan, the covert intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. aids his father’s administration — but his agency is no longer secret.
Penguin Group

#8 Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum tracks a con man who disappeared from a hospital. Random House Publishing

#9 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
A teenage boy and a 450-pound tiger are thrown together in a lifeboat after a shipwreck; now a movie.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers

#10 The Black Box by Michael Connelly
The Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to the killing of a young female photographer during race riots in 1992.
Little, Brown & Company

#11 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
The sudden death of a parish councilman reveals bitter social divisions in an idyllic English town. Little, Brown & Company

#12Fifity Shades Darker by E. L. James
Ana Steele learns more about Christian Grey’s troubled past; the second book in a trilogy.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing

#13 Fifity Shades Freed by E. L. James
The final book in an erotic trilogy.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing

#14 The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden by Jessica Sorensen
A boy and girl, both of whom have tragedy in their past, come together after a chance encounter in college.
Jessica Sorensen (Self-published)

#15 The Last Man by Vince Flynn
The counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp searches for a missing C.I.A. asset amid treachery in Afghanistan.
Simon & Schuster