BESTSELLERS
FICTION
1. The President’s Daughter, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. (Little, Brown)
● Matthew Keating, a past president and former Navy SEAL, goes on his own to find his abducted teenage daughter.
THIS WEEK: 1
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
2. The Maidens, by Alex Michaelides. (Celadon)
● A therapist suspects a Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University of committing murder.
THIS WEEK: 2
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
3. The Last Thing He Told Me, by Laura Dave. (Simon & Schuster)
● Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.
THIS WEEK: 3
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 7
4. Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. (Ballantine)
● Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of summer. But over the course of 24 hours, their lives will change forever.
THIS WEEK: 4
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
5. Golden Girl, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Little, Brown)
● A Nantucket novelist gets one final summer to watch what happens from the great beyond.
THIS WEEK: 5
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
6. 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.
THIS WEEK: 6
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 135
7. Sooley, by John Grisham. (Doubleday)
● Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.
THIS WEEK: 7
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 8
8. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig. (Viking)
● Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.
THIS WEEK: 8
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 29
9. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir. (Ballantine)
● Ryland Grace awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders. THIS WEEK: 9
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 7
10. People We Meet On Vacation, by Emily Henry. (Berkley)
● Opposites Poppy and Alex meet to vacation together one more time in hopes of saving their relationship. THIS WEEK: 10
LAST WEEK: 12
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
11. THE SILENT PATIENT, by Alex Michaelides. (Celadon)
● Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
THIS WEEK: 11
LAST WEEK: 13
WEEKS ON LIST: 42
12. The Song Of Achilles, by Madeline Miller. (Ecco)
● A reimagining of Homer’s Iliad that is narrated by Achilles’ companion Patroclus.
THIS WEEK: 12
LAST WEEK: 15
WEEKS ON LIST: 11
13. The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s)
● As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West.
THIS WEEK: 13
LAST WEEK: 14
WEEKS ON LIST: 20
14. The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris. (Atria)
● Tension unfurls when two young black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.
THIS WEEK: 14
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
15. Million Dollar Demon, by Kim Harrison. (Ace)
● The 15th book in the Hollows series. A new master demon arrives in Cincinnati and causes chaos.
THIS WEEK: 15
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
NON-FICTION
1. Killing The Mob, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. (St. Martin’s)
● The 10th book in the conservative commentator’s Killing series looks at organised crime in the United States during the 20th century.
THIS WEEK: 1
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 7
2. Live Your Life, by Amanda Kloots with Anna Kloots. (Harper)
● The wife of the late Broadway star Nick Cordero recounts his battle with Covid-19 and the hope she found in her infant son, Elvis.
THIS WEEK: 2
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
3. The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel van der Kolk. (Penguin)
● How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
THIS WEEK: 3
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 43
4. Greenlights, by Matthew McConaughey. (Crown)
● The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.
THIS WEEK: 4
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 35
5. The Bomber Mafia, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown)
● A look at the key players and outcomes of precision bombing during World War II.
THIS WEEK: 5
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 8
6. The Premonition, by Michael Lewis. (Norton)
● Stories of sceptics who went against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of Covid-19. The profiles include a local public-health officer and a group of doctors nicknamed the Wolverines. THIS WEEK: 6
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 7
7. Untamed, by Glennon Doyle. (Dial) ● The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.
THIS WEEK: 7
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 67
8. What Happened To You?, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey. (Flatiron)
● An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.
THIS WEEK: 8
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 8
9. 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.
THIS WEEK: 9
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 74
10. On Juneteenth, by Annette Gordon-Reed. (Liveright)
● The Pulitzer Prize winner weaves together American history with personal memoir to show the importance of events in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865.
THIS WEEK: 10
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
11. How The Word Is Passed, by Clint Smith. (Little, Brown)
● A staff writer at The Atlantic explores the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history. THIS WEEK: 11
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
12. In The Heights: Finding Home, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Jeremy McCarter. (Random House)
● Stories, essays and lyrics that chart the creative journey of the Tony Award-winning musical that is now a motion picture.
THIS WEEK: 12
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
13. Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson. (Random House)
● The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilisations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.
THIS WEEK: 13
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 46
14. The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green. (Dutton)
● A collection of personal essays that review different facets of the human-centred planet.
THIS WEEK: 14
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
15. Somebody’s Daughter, by Ashley C. Ford. (Flatiron)
● A memoir about growing up a poor black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration. THIS WEEK: 15
LAST WEEK: 13
WEEKS ON LIST: 3