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. CAMINO WINDS by John Grisham. The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead after a hurricane hits Camino Island.
3. IF IT BLEEDS by Stephen King. Four novellas.
4. WALK THE WIRE by David Baldacci. The sixth book in the Memory Man series. Decker and Jamison investigate a murder in a North Dakota town in a fracking boom.
5. THE 20TH VICTIM by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. The 20th book in the Women’s Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer looks into the murders of disreputable persons in three separate cities.
6. BIG SUMMER by Jennifer Weiner. Daphne Berg’s former best friend asks her to be the maid of honor at her wedding in Cape Cod.
7. 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.
8. THE LAST TRIAL by Scott Turow. An 85-year-old defense lawyer puts off his retirement to aid a Nobel Prize winner in medicine, who is accused of insider trading, fraud and murder.
9. ALL ADULTS HERE by Emma Straub. A repressed memory triggers Astrid Strick to weigh the outcomes of her parenting of her now-grown children.
10. THE BOOK OF LONGINGS by Sue Monk Kidd. A scholarly young woman named Ana meets an 18-year-old Jesus and becomes caught up in a confluence of dangers.
Nonfiction
1. UNTAMED by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.
2. BECOMING by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.
3. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson. An examination of the leadership of the prime minister Winston Churchill.
4. EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
5. PLAGUE OF CORRUPTION by Judy Mikovits and Kent Hecken-lively. The controversial virologist gives her account of her work over nearly four decades.
6. THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch. How Allan Pinkerton, along with undercover agents, thwarted a lesser-known assassination attempt of Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore in 1861.
7. THE MAMBA MENTALITY by Kobe Bryant. Various skills and techniques used on the court by the late Los Angeles Lakers player.
8. 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.
9. FORTITUDE by Dan Crenshaw. The Texas congressman and former Navy SEAL prescribes ways to overcome adversity.
10. THE RURAL DIARIES by Hilarie Burton Morgan. The actress starts a family, transplants to a working farm and revitalizes a candy store in Rhinebeck, N.Y.
Paperback fiction
1. NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney.
2. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng.
3. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn.
4. THEN SHE WAS GONE by Lisa Jewell.
5. THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris.
Paperback nonfiction
1. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk.
2. THE GREAT INFLUENZA by John M. Barry.
3. WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo.
4. A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Sonia Purnell.
5. SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.