New York Times Best Sellers

Fiction

1. THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett (Riverhead) The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine.

2. THE SCORPION’S TAIL

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central)

The second book in the Nora Kelly series. An FBI agent and an archaeologist identify a mummified corpse and its gruesome cause of death.

3. NEIGHBORS by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)

A Hollywood recluse’s perspective changes when she invites her neighbors into her mansion after an earthquake.

4. STAR WARS: LIGHT OF THE JEDI

by Charles Soule (Del Rey)

5. THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY

by Matt Haig (Viking)

6. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

by Delia Owens (Putnam)

7. THE INVISIBLE LIFE

OF ADDIE LARUE

by V.E. Schwab (Tor/Forge)

8. ANXIOUS PEOPLE

by Fredrik Backman (Atria)

9. THE RETURN

by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

10. A TIME FOR MERCY

by John Grisham (Doubleday)

Nonfiction

1. A PROMISED LAND

by Barack Obama (Crown)

In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama offers personal reflections on his formative years and pivotal moments through his first term.

2. GREENLIGHTS

by Matthew McConaughey (Crown)

The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.

3. CASTE

by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House) The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.

4. UNTAMED

by Glennon Doyle (Dial)

5. A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN

by George Saunders (Random House)

6. BECOMING

by Michelle Obama (Crown)

7. EVIL GENIUSES

by Kurt Andersen (Random House)

8. HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST

by Ibram X. Kendi (One World)

9. YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED TO LACEY

by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar (Grand Central)

10. BREATH

by James Nestor (Riverhead)