BEST-SELLERS
Fiction
1. 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.
2. MASKED PREY by John Sandford. The 30th book in the Prey series. Washington politicians ask Lucas Davenport to look into someone who is targeting their children.
3. AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins. A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.
4. THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides. Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
5. THE BOY FROM THE WOODS by Harlan Coben. When a girl goes missing, a private investigator’s feral childhood becomes an asset in the search.
6. THE GLASS HOTEL by Emily St. John Mandel. Years after an international Ponzi scheme falls apart, one of its victims investigates the disappearance of a woman from a container ship.
7. IN FIVE YEARS by Rebecca Serle. A Manhattan lawyer finds herself confronting a vision she had when elements of it come to life on schedule.
8. REDHEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD by Anne Tyler. Micah Mortimer’s orderly existence is thrown off kilter when his partner faces eviction and a teenager claims to be his son.
9. THE GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes. In Depression-era Kentucky, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books.
10. VALENTINE by Elizabeth Wetmore. A Texas town on the verge of an oil boom in 1976 becomes divided when a teenage girl is brutally attacked.
Nonfiction
1. UNTAMED by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. 2. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson. An examination of the leadership of the prime minister Winston Churchill.
3. THE HOUSE OF KENNEDY by James Patterson and Cynthia Fagen. A look at the achievements of the political family and what has been called “the Kennedy curse.” 4. FRONT ROW AT THE TRUMP SHOW by Jonathan Karl. The ABC News chief White House correspondent gives his perspective on our current president and describes the shifts within their relationship.
5. HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD by Robert Kolker. From 1945 to 1965, a family in Colorado had 12 children, six of whom went on to develop schizophrenia.
6. EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university. 7. THE MAMBA MENTALITY by Kobe Bryant. Various skills and techniques used on the court by the late Los Angeles Lakers player.
8. BECOMING by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent. 9. ABOUT YOUR FATHER AND OTHER CELEBRITIES I HAVE KNOWN by Peggy Rowe. Stories of living with a minimalist husband, cheering her son’s celebrity and having a late career as a commercial spokesperson. 10. ARGUING WITH SOCIALISTS by Glenn Beck. The conservative commentator espouses free-market capitalism.
Paperback fiction
1. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng. 2. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn. 3. CIRCE by Madeline Miller.
4. THEN SHE WAS GONE by Lisa Jewell.
5. THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather
Morris.
Paperback nonfiction
1. THE GREAT INFLUENZA by John M. Barry.
2. BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah.
3. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk. 4. A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Sonia
Purnell. 5. WOW, NO THANK YOU by Samantha Irby.