N.Y. TIMES BEST-SELLERS
FICTION
1. THE RECKONING, by
John Grisham. A decorated World War II veteran shoots and kills a pastor inside a Mississippi church.
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2. EVERY BREATH, by Nicholas Sparks. Difficult choices surface when Hope Anderson and Tru Walls meet in a North Carolina seaside town.
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3. THE PRESIDENT IS
MISSING, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. President Jonathan Duncan, a Gulf War veteran and widower, takes on adversaries at home and abroad.
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4. NOT QUITE OVER YOU, by Susan Mallery. The fourth book in the Happily Inc. series. Silver Tesdal must reveal a secret she has been keeping from Drew Lovato.
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5. THE NEXT PERSON YOU MEET IN HEAVEN, by Mitch Albom. The sequel to “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” follows Annie on her heavenly journey.
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6. HOLY GHOST, by John Sandford. Virgil Flowers investigates shootings in a Minnesota town following an attempt to revive its ailing economy.
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7. A SPARK OF LIGHT, by Jodi Picoult. The lives of patients, doctors and activists intersect when a gunman holds them hostage in a woman’s health center in Mississippi.
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8. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, by Delia Owens. In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
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9. UNSHELTERED, by Barbara Kingsolver. Intertwined stories of two families who live in different centuries on the same street corner in Vineland, New Jersey.
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10. AMBUSH, by James Patterson and James O. Born. Michael Bennett discovers that an assassin is targeting him and his family.
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NONFICTION
Weeks on list: 3 1. KILLING THE SS, by Bill O’reilly and Martin Dugard. A look at the postwar manhunt for members of Hitler’s inner circle.
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4. EDUCATED, by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
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5. FEAR, by Bob Woodward. Based on hours of interviews with sources, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes debates and decision-making within the Trump White House.
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6. BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS, by Stephen Hawking. A collection of essays from the late scientist’s personal archive that address 10 imponderables.
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7. THE FIFTH RISK, by Michael Lewis. The author of “The Big Short” examines how the Trump administration staffs its federal agencies.
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8. PRESIDENTS OF WAR, by Michael Beschloss. How American presidents waged wars and expanded the power of the executive branch.
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9. LEADERSHIP, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The challenges that shaped the leadership abilities of four presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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10. IN PIECES, by Sally Field. A memoir by the two-time Academy Award and three-time Emmy Award winner.
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