NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLERS

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, Aug. 29.

FICTION

1. THICK AS THIEVES, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central) Arden Maxwell returns home to uncover the truth about her father’s involvement in a heist that went wrong 20 years ago. (Weeks on list, 1)

2. SQUEEZE ME, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf) A dead dowager, hungry pythons and occupants of the winter White House shake up the Palm Beach charity ball season. (1)

3. 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. (13)

4. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect. (103)

5. EMERALD BLAZE, by Ilona Andrews. (Avon) The latest installment in the “Hidden Legacy” series. Catalina Baylor overcomes heartbreak to team up with Alessandro Sagredo. (1)

6. THE GUEST LIST, by Lucy Foley. (Morrow) A wedding between a TV star and a magazine publisher on an island off the coast of Ireland turns deadly. (13)

7. SOMEONE TO ROMANCE, by Mary Balogh. (Berkley) The seventh book in the “Westcott” series. Gabriel Thorne’s intention to wed Lady Jessica Archer misses its mark at first. (1)

8. ROYAL, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) In 1943, the 17-year-old Princess Charlotte assumes a new identity in the country and falls in love. (2)

9. AMERICAN DIRT, by Jeanine Cummins. (Flatiron) A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel. (32)

10. THEN SHE WAS GONE, by Lisa Jewell. (Atria) Ten years after her daughter disappears, a woman tries to get her life in order but remains haunted by unanswered questions. (9)

11. TRUTH AND JUSTICE, by Fern Michaels. (Zebra) The 31st book in the “Sisterhood” series. A con artist is behind a scheme involving fertility clinics. (1)

12. 28 SUMMERS, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Little, Brown) A relationship that started in 1993 between Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud comes to light while she is on her deathbed and his wife runs for president. (11)

13. THE EXILES, by Christina Baker Kline. (Custom House) Three young women are sent to the fledgling British penal colony of Australia in the 1840s. (1)

14. THE MIDWIFE MURDERS, by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo. (Grand Central) A single mom teams up with an NYPD detective to solve a case involving misdeeds at a university hospital. (3)

15. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press) An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland. (81) NONFICTION

1. HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON, by Jon Meacham. (Random House) The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer creates a portrait of Rep. John Lewis, the late civil rights leader and congressman for Georgia’s 5th Congressional District. (1)

2. HOAX, by Brian Stelter. (One Signal/ Atria) The CNN anchor and chief media correspondent examines the inner workings of Fox News and its relationship with President Donald Trump. (1)

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)

4. UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. (Dial) The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. (25)

5. LIVE FREE OR DIE, by Sean Hannity. (Threshold Editions) The Fox News host offers his assessment on what is at stake in the 2020 election. (4)

6. TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH, by Mary L. Trump. (Simon & Schuster) The clinical psychologist gives her assessment of events and patterns inside her family and how they shaped President Donald Trump. (7)

7. WHITE FRAGILITY, by Robin DiAngelo. (Beacon Press) Historical and cultural analyses on what causes defensive moves by white people and how this inhibits crossracial dialogue. (23)

8. HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST, by

Ibram X. Kendi. (One World) A primer for creating a more just and equitable society through identifying and opposing racism.

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9. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. (Spiegel & Grau) Winner of the 2015 National Book Award for nonfiction. A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story, framed as a letter to the author’s teenage son. (70)

10. EDUCATED, by Tara Westover. (Random House) The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university. (125)

11. BORN A CRIME, by Trevor Noah. (Spiegel & Grau) A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.” (71)

12. THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, by Isabel Wilkerson. (Vintage) An account of the Great Migration of 1915-70, in which nearly 6 million African Americans abandoned the South. (5)

13. SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE, by Ijeoma Oluo. (Seal) A look at the contemporary racial landscape of the United States. (15)

14. VESPER FLIGHTS, by Helen Macdonald. (Grove) A collection of observational essays by the nature writer on themes of captivity, immigration and freedom. (1)

15. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE, by Erik Larson. (Crown) An examination of the leadership of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. (26)