BEST-SELLERS
Fiction
1. ONE GOOD DEED by David Baldacci. A World War II veteran on parole must find the real killer in a small town or face going back to jail.
2. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens. In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survives alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
3. THE NICKEL BOYS by Colson Whitehead. Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crowera reform school in ways that impact them decades later.
4. THE NEW GIRL by Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon, chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.
5. THRAWN: TREASON by Timothy Zahn. A Star Wars saga. Grand Admiral Thrawn must choose between his sense of duty to the Chiss Ascendancy and loyalty to the Empire.
6. SUMMER OF ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand. The Levin family undergoes dramatic events with a son in Vietnam, a daughter in protests and dark secrets hiding beneath the surface.
7. UNDER CURRENTS by Nora Roberts. Echoes of a violent childhood reverberate for Zane Bigelow when he starts a new kind of family in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
8. WINDOW ON THE BAY by Debbie Macomber. A single mom’s life takes unexpected turns when her two children go off to college.
9. CITY OF GIRLS by Elizabeth Gilbert. An 89-year-old Vivian Morris looks back at the direction her life took when she entered the 1940s New York theater scene.
10. ASK AGAIN, YES by Mary Beth Keane. The lives of neighboring families in a New York City suburb intertwine over four decades.
Nonfiction
1. EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
2. BECOMING by Michelle Obama. 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.
3. THE PIONEERS by David McCullough. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters.
4. THREE WOMEN by Lisa Taddeo. The inequality of female desire is explored through the sex lives of a homemaker, a high school student and a restaurant owner.
5. UNFREEDOM OF THE PRESS by Mark R. Levin. The conservative commentator and radio host makes his case that the press is aligned with political ideology.
6. JUSTICE ON TRIAL by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino. The conservative authors give their take on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
7. AMERICAN CARNAGE by Tim Alberta. Politico’s chief political correspondent narrates a decade-long civil war inside the GOP and Donald Trump’s concurrent ascension.
8. AMERICA’S RELUCTANT PRINCE by Steven M. Gillon. A historian describes John F. Kennedy Jr. through the lens of their decades-long friendship.
9. BECAUSE INTERNET by Gretchen McCulloch. The digital world’s influence on the English language.
10. RANGE by David Epstein. An argument for how generalists excel more than specialists, especially in complex and unpredictable fields.
Paperback fiction
1. BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate.
2. THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris. A concentration camp detainee tasked with permanently marking fellow prisoners falls in love with one of them.
3. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng.
4. ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by Gail Honeyman.
5. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn.
Paperback nonfiction
1. THE MUELLER REPORT with related materials by The Washington Post.
2. BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah.
3. SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.
4. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk.
5. WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo.