NEW YORK TIMES
(PRINT AND E-BOOKS COMBINED)
FICTION
1. American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins. (Flatiron)
● A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.
THIS WEEK: 1
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 4 2. Where The Crawdads Sing, by
Delia Owens. (Putnam)
● In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect. THIS WEEK: 2
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 75
3. Golden In Death, by J.D. Robb. (St. Martin’s)
● The 50th book of the “In Death” series. Eve Dallas seeks the sender of packages that give off toxic fumes.
THIS WEEK: 3
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 2 4. Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press)
● An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.
THIS WEEK: 4
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 53 5. The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides. (Celadon) ● Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
THIS WEEK: 5
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 22 6. Crooked River, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. (Grand Central) ● The 19th book in the “Agent Pendergast” series. Human feet inside nondescript shoes wash ashore in Florida.
THIS WEEK: 6
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 2 7. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett. (Harper)
● A sibling relationship is impacted when the family goes from poverty to wealth and back again over the course of many decades.
THIS WEEK: 7
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 21
8. The Guardians, by John Grisham. (Doubleday)
● Cullen Post, a lawyer and Episcopal minister, antagonises some ruthless killers when he takes on a wrongful conviction case. THIS WEEK: 8
LAST WEEK: 12
WEEKS ON LIST: 18
9. The Outsider, by Stephen King. (Scribner)
● A detective investigates a seemingly wholesome member of the community when an 11-year-old boy’s body is found.
THIS WEEK: 9
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 16 10. The Tattooist Of Auschwitz, by
Heather Morris. (Harper)
● A concentration camp detainee tasked with permanently marking fellow prisoners falls in love with one of them.
THIS WEEK: 10
LAST WEEK: 14
WEEKS ON LIST: 64
NON-FICTION
1. Open Book, by Jessica Simpson with Kevin Carr O’Leary. (Dey St.)
● The singer, actress and fashion designer discloses times of success, trauma and addiction. THIS WEEK: 1
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 2 2. A Very Stable Genius, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. (Penguin Press)
● The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists use firsthand accounts to chart patterns of behaviour within the Trump administration. THIS WEEK: 2
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 4 3. Profiles In Corruption, by Peter
Schweizer. (Harper)
● The author of Clinton Cash gives his evaluations of members of the Democratic Party.
THIS WEEK: 3
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
4. 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: 4
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 104
5. On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder. (Tim Duggan)
● Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.
THIS WEEK: 5
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 20 6. Becoming, by Michelle Obama. (Crown)
● The former first lady describes her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House, and how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.
THIS WEEK: 6
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 63
7. Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson. (Spiegel & Grau)
● A law professor and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death. THIS WEEK: 7
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 25 8. Talking To Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown)
● Famous examples of miscommunication serve as the backdrop to explain potential conflicts and misunderstandings.
THIS WEEK: 8
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 23 9. Why We’re Polarized, by Ezra
Klein. (Avid Reader)
● The editor-at-large and co-founder of Vox offers his take on what causes divisions in America.
THIS WEEK: 9
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 3 10. The Mamba Mentality, by Kobe Bryant. (Melcher Media/ MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
● Various skills and techniques used on the court by the Los Angeles Lakers player. THIS WEEK: 10
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 6