BESTSELLERS

Fiction

1. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf: $27) An Elizabethan tale of love and grief in 16th century StratfordUpon-Avon.

2. Outlawed by Anna North (Bloomsbury: $26) In the Old West a married, childless woman joins a gang of desperados.

3. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Riverhead : $27) Identical twin sisters run away from their small Black community in the South and live very different lives.

4. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor: $27) In 1714 France, a woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone.

5. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Viking: $26) A reader in an infinite library is torn between versions of her life.

6. The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. (Putnam: $27) A forbidden relationship between two enslaved men is torn apart when a fellow slave begins preaching.

7. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey: $27) A woman is summoned to a mysterious home in rural Mexico.

8. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit: $28) A precautionary vision of Earth following a climate apocalypse from the science fiction master.

9. Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson (Custom House: $29) A handsome ranch hand recalls the summer of 1938, in Reno, Nev. and the two women who changed his life.

10. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (Pamela Dorman : $28) Five Depression-era women deliver books as part of a traveling library.

Nonfiction

1. Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion (Knopf: $23) A collection of 12 essays from 1968 to 2000 by the legendary author.

2. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House: $32) A hidden caste system influences the lives of Americans.

3. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders (Random House: $28) A masterclass for writers.

4. A Promised Land by Barack Obama (Crown: $45) The first Black president of the U.S. offers a personal account of the issues faced early in his presidency.

5. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne: $23) A modern fable explores life’s universal lessons.

6. Untamed by Glennon Doyle (Dial: $28) The the peace that comes when we stop striving to meet the world’s expectations.

7. The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (Crown: $32) A portrait of Winston Churchill.

8. Just as I Am: A Memoir by Cicely Tyson (Harper: $29) A frank and revealing autobiography from the iconic actor.

9. Breath by James Nestor (Riverhead: $28) New research yields breathtaking results.

10. The Art of Impossible by Steven Kotler (Harper Wave: $29) The performance expert reveals the secrets of elite athletes, scientists, CEOs and artists.