N.Y. TIMES BEST-SELLERS
FICTION
1. LEGACY, by Nora Roberts. Threats put in rhymes and sent from shifting locations escalate as the daughter of a successful fitness celebrity’s own yoga business grows.
Last week: — Weeks on list: 1
2. THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME, by Laura Dave. Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.
Last week: 1 Weeks on list: 4
3. SHADOW STORM, by Christine Feehan. The sixth book in the Shadow Riders series. Emmanuelle is pulled toward Valentino and his family’s private war.
Last week: — Weeks on list: 1
4. PROJECT HAIL MARY, by Andy Weir. Ryland Grace awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders.
Last week: 3 Weeks on list: 4
5. SOOLEY, by John Grisham. Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.
Last week: 2 Weeks on list: 5
6. THE SABOTEURS, by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul. The 12th book in the Isaac Bell Adventure series. An assassination attempt reveals a deeper plot at the Panama Canal.
Last week: — Weeks on list: 1
7. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, by Delia Owens. In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
Last week: 4 Weeks on list: 132
8. A GAMBLING MAN, by David Baldacci. Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town.
Last week: 11 Weeks on list: 6
9. THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, by Matt Haig. Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.
Last week: 8 Weeks on list: 26
10. WHILE JUSTICE SLEEPS, by Stacey Abrams. When Justice Wynn slips into a coma, his law clerk, Avery Keene, must unravel the clues of a controversial case. Last week: 6
NONFICTION
1. KILLING THE MOB, by Bill O’reilly and
Martin Dugard. The 10th book in the conservative commentator’s Killing series looks at organized crime in the United States during the 20th century. Last week: 3 Weeks on list: 4
2. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey. An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.
Last week: 5 Weeks on list: 5
3. THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED, by John Green. A collection of personal essays that review different facets of the human-centered planet.
Last week: 1 Weeks on list: 2
4. ZERO FAIL, by Carol Leonnig. The three-time Pulitzer Prize winner brings to light the secrets, scandals and shortcomings of the Secret Service.
Last week: 2 Weeks on list: 2
5. THE PREMONITION, by Michael Lewis. Stories of skeptics who went against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. The profiles include a local public-health officer and a group of doctors nicknamed the Wolverines.
Last week: 6 Weeks on list: 4
6. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van der Kolk. How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
Last week: 8 Weeks on list: 40
7. GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew Mcconaughey. The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.
Last week: 9 Weeks on list: 32
8. THE BOMBER MAFIA, by Malcolm Gladwell. A look at the key players and outcomes of precision bombing during World War II.
Last week: 10 Weeks on list: 5
9. YEARBOOK, by Seth Rogen. A collection of personal essays by the actor, writer, producer, director, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Last week: 7 Weeks on list: 3
10. NOISE, by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein. What might cause variability in judgments that should be identical and potential ways to remedy this.
Last week: 4 Weeks on list: 2