N.Y. TIMES BEST-SELLERS
FICTION
1. 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: 3 Weeks on list: 8
2. THE PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. Matthew Keating, a past president and former Navy SEAL, goes on his own to find his abducted teenage daughter.
Last week: 1 Weeks on list: 3
3. MALIBU RISING, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. An epic party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings.
Last week: 4 Weeks on list: 4
4. 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: 6 Weeks on list: 136
5. PEOPLE WE MEET ON
VACATION, by Emily Henry. Opposites Poppy and Alex meet to vacation together one more time in hopes of saving their relationship.
Last week: 10 Weeks on list: 7 6. 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: 30
7. GOLDEN GIRL, by Elin Hilderbrand. A Nantucket novelist gets one final summer to watch what happens from the great beyond.
Last week: 5 Weeks on list: 4
8. IT ENDS WITH US, by Colleen Hoover. A battered wife raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse.
Last week: — Weeks on list: 2
9. 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: 9 Weeks on list: 8
10. THE SONG OF ACHILLES, by Madeline Miller. A reimagining of Homer’s “Iliad” that is narrated by Achilles’ companion Patroclus.
Last week: 12Weeks on list: 12
NONFICTION
1. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van der
Kolk. How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
Last week: 3 Weeks on list: 44
2. 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: 1 Weeks on list: 8
3. THE BOMBER MAFIA, by Malcolm Gladwell. A look at the key players and outcomes of precision bombing during World War II.
Last week: 5 Weeks on list: 9
4. GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew Mcconaughey. The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.
Last week: 4 Weeks on list: 36
5. UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.
Last week: 7Weeks on list: 68
6. CASTE, by Isabel Wilkerson. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.
Last week: 13 Weeks on list: 47 7. 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: 8
8. CRYING IN H MART, by
Michelle Zauner. The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.
Last week: — Weeks on list: 6
9. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.
Last week: — Weeks on list: 10
10. THE ANTHROPOCENE
REVIEWED, by John Green. A collection of personal essays that review different facets of the human-centered planet.
Last week: 14 Weeks on list: 6