New York Times Best Sellers
Fiction 1. FAIRY TALE
by Stephen King (Scribner) A high school kid inherits a shed that is a portal to another world where good and evil are at war.
2. RIGHTEOUS PREY
by John Sandford (Putnam) The 32nd book in the Prey series. Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport go after a group of vigilante killers.
3. MAD HONEY
by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (Ballantine) After returning to her hometown, Olivia McAfee’s son gets accused of killing his crush.
4. DREAMLAND
by Nicholas Sparks (Random House) Musicians from different backgrounds are attracted to each other and a mother flees with her son from an abusive husband.
5. OUR MISSING HEARTS
by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press) Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner goes on a quest to find his mother, a Chinese American poet whose work he was taught to disavow.
6. VERITY
by Colleen Hoover (Grand Central) Lowen Ashleigh is hired by the husband of an injured writer to complete her popular series and uncovers a horrifying truth.
7. THE WINNERS
by Fredrik Backman (Atria) The third book in the Beartown series. Rivalries between two hockeyobsessed towns escalate into violence off the ice.
8. ENDLESS SUMMER
by Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown) A collection of nine stories set during summers in Nantucket.
9. TREASURE STATE
by C.J. Box (Minotaur) The sixth book in the Cassie Dewell series. Cassie works two cases involving buried treasure and a con man.
10. BLOWBACK
by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois (Little, Brown) President Keegan Barrett’s power grab tests the loyalties of two CIA agents.
Nonfiction 1. CONFIDENCE MAN
by Maggie Haberman (Penguin Press) The New York Times White House correspondent traces events from Donald Trump’s rise in New York City through to his post-presidency.
2. I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED
by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster) The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.
3. KILLING THE LEGENDS
by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (St. Martin’s) The conservative commentator’s Killing series profiles Elvis Presley, John Lennon and Muhammad Ali.
4. LIVE WIRE
by Kelly Ripa (Dey Street) The Daytime Emmy Award-winning TV host shares stories from her life on and off screen.
5. STARRY MESSENGER
by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Holt) The astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium delves into subjects including politics, religion, gender and race.
6. ADRIFT
by Scott Galloway (Portfolio) An overview of events from 1945 to the present and how they might inform potential crises in the near future.
7. THE MYTH OF NORMAL
by Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté (Avery) The potential ways in which trauma and stress from modern-day living can affect our physical health.
8. IF YOU WANT SOMETHING DONE
by Nikki R. Haley (St. Martin’s) The former governor of South Carolina and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations shares her journey and profiles female leaders.
9. WHAT IF? 2
by Randall Munroe (Riverhead) The creator of the web comic “xkcd” and former NASA roboticist looks into hypothetical and oddball scenarios.
10. DINNERS WITH RUTH
by Nina Totenberg. (Simon & Schuster) The NPR legal affairs correspondent details her professional accomplishments and friendship with the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.