Albany Times Union (Sunday)

N.Y. TIMES BEST-SELLERS

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FICTION

1. CAMINO WINDS, by John Grisham. The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead after a hurricane hits Camino Island.

Last week: 2

2. 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.

Last week: 4 Weeks on list: 88

3. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, by Celeste Ng. An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.

Last week: 3 Weeks on list: 66

4. IF IT BLEEDS, by Stephen King. Four novellas: “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone,” “The Life of Chuck,” “Rat” and “If It Bleeds.”

Last week: 5

5. WALK THE WIRE, by David Baldacci. The sixth book in the “Memory Man” series. Decker and Jamison investigat­e a murder in a North Dakota town in a fracking boom.

Last week: 8

6. THE 20TH VICTIM, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. The 20th book in the “Women’s Murder Club” series. Lindsay Boxer looks into the murders of disreputab­le people in three separate cities.

Last week: 1

7. NORMAL PEOPLE, by Sally Rooney. The connection between a high school star athlete and a loner ebbs and flows when they go to Trinity College in Dublin.

Last week: 10

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Weeks on list: 7 8. THE LAST TRIAL, by Scott Turow. An 85-year-old defense lawyer puts off his retirement to aid a Nobel Prize winner in medicine, who is accused of insider trading, fraud and murder.

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9. BIG SUMMER, by Jennifer Weiner. Daphne Berg’s former best friend asks her to be the maid of honor at her wedding in Cape Cod.

Last week: 7

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

Last week: 12 Weeks on list: 17

NONFICTION

1. UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.

Last week: 1 Weeks on list: 10

2. BECOMING, by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House, and how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.

Last week: 2 Weeks on list: 76

3. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE, by Erik Larson.

Last week: 10

6. HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, by Robert Kolker. From 1945 to 1965, a family in Colorado had 12 children, six of whom went on to develop schizophre­nia.

Last week: 9

7. PLAGUE OF CORRUPTION, by Judy Mikovits and Kent Heckenlive­ly. The controvers­ial virologist gives her account of her work over nearly four decades.

Last week: 3

8. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van der Kolk. How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.

Last week: 14

9. A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, by Sonia Purnell. The true story of a Baltimore socialite who joined a spy organizati­on during World War II and became essential to the French Resistance.

Last week: 11

10. THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY, by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch. How Allan Pinkerton, along with undercover agents, thwarted a lesser-known assassinat­ion attempt of Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore in 1861.

Last week: 8

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