NEW YORK TIMES
FICTION
1 Accidental Heroes by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte)
Strangers pull together to avert a disaster involving two flights from New York to San Francisco. THIS WEEK: 1
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2 The Punishment She Deserves by Elizabeth George. (Viking)
Detectives Havers and Lynley investigate the death of a deacon accused of a serious crime in a historic medieval town in England. THIS WEEK: 2
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3 Camino Island by John Grisham. (Doubleday)
A search for stolen rare manuscripts leads to a Florida island.
THIS WEEK: 3
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4 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. (Broadway)
It’s 2044, life on a resource- depleted Earth has grown increasingly grim, and the key to a vast fortune is hidden in a virtualreality world.
THIS WEEK: 4
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5 The Bishop’s Pawn by Steve Berry. (Minotaur)
Cotton Malone discovers revelations about the day the Rev Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.
THIS WEEK: 5
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6 The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s)
A former prisoner of war returns from Vietnam and moves his family to Alaska, where they face tough conditions.
THIS WEEK: 6
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7 Covert Game by Christine Feehan. (Berkley)
Gino Mazza must save an artificial intelligence expert who tampered with a crime lord’s computer network.
THIS WEEK: 7
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8 Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press)
An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.
THIS WEEK: 8
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9 The Rising Sea by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. (Putnam)
A scientific team searches the globe for the threat causing sea levels to rise at an alarming rate. THIS WEEK: 9
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10 The Woman In The Window by A.J. Finn. (Morrow)
A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem town house.
THIS WEEK: 10
LAST WEEK: 7
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NON-FICTION
1 Secret Empires by Peter Schweizer. (Harper)
The author of Clinton Cash describes what some politicians might do to enrich themselves while in office.
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2 Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff and David Corn. (Twelve)
Details of the 2016 presidential election, with an emphasis on Russia’s possible involvement. THIS WEEK: 2
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3 Educated by Tara Westover. (Random House)
The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
THIS WEEK: 3
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4 Fire And Fury by Michael Wolff. (Holt)
A journalist offers an inside account of the first year of the Trump White House.
THIS WEEK: 4
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5 I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara. (Harper)
The late true-crime journalist’s search for the serial murderer and rapist known as “The Golden State Killer”.
THIS WEEK: 5
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6 A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking. (Bantam)
The British cosmologist reviews efforts to create a unified theory of the universe; first published in 1988.
THIS WEEK: 6
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7 Astrophysics For People In A Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. (Norton)
A straightforward, easy-tounderstand introduction to the laws that govern the universe. THIS WEEK: 7
LAST WEEK: 6
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8 Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker. (Viking)
A case for using reason, science and humanism to counter pessimistic views of Western civilisation.
THIS WEEK: 8
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9 Pretty Mess by Erika Jayne. (Gallery)
A memoir by the star of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills. THIS WEEK: 9
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10 Killers Of The Flower Moon by David Grann. (Doubleday)
The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil.
THIS WEEK: 10
LAST WEEK: 8
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