BESTSELLERS

Fiction

1. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World: $28) A gifted young man with a mysterious powers becomes part of a war between slavers and the enslaved.

2. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese: $28.95) The sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” picks up after 15 years.

3. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (Harper: $27.99) A brother and sister’s lives are changed when a stepmother enters their family.

4. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron: $27.99) A tale of privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League elite.

5. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons: $26) A young woman becomes a murder suspect.

6. The Institute by Stephen King (Scribner: $30) Children with special skills are abducted in an institution where a sinister staff extracts their gifts through barbaric methods.

7. The Topeka School by Ben Lerner (FSG: $27) A high school debate in 1990s Kansas explains the present.

8. Grand Union by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press: $27) The author’s first collection of short stories, set mostly in the U.S.

9. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press: $26) A son in his late 20s writes a letter to his mother who cannot read, unearthing a family’s history rooted in Vietnam.

10. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday: $24.95) American history told through the story of two boys sentenced to a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

Nonfiction

1. Blowout by Rachel Maddow (Crown: $30) The MSNBC news host offers her take on the oil-and-gas industry.

2. Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith (Knopf: $24.95) Memoir explores a troubled year in the singer’s life.

3. Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown: $30) Examples of miscommunication explain potential conflicts and misunderstandings.

4. Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (Little, Brown: $30) The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter shares his account of how a network of powerful men conspired to silence women.

5. The Book of Gutsy Women by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton (Simon & Schuster: $35) The former first lady and her daughter share stories of the strong women who have inspired them.

6. She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (Penguin Press: $28) The investigation into the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the disclosure of women’s stories by New York Times reporters

7. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $27) An investigative look at the sex lives of three American women for more than a decade.

8. Everything You Need by David Jeremiah (Thomas Nelson: $26.99) Eight steps to a life of confidence in God.

9. Educated by Tara Westover (Random House: $28) A young woman raised without schooling by survivalists describes her path to Cambridge University.

10. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino (Random House: $27) Essays on self-deception, surging beneath the surface of our lives from scammer culture to reality television.