N.Y. TIMES BEST-SELLERS
FICTION
1. A GAMBLING MAN, by David Baldacci. Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town.
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2. OCEAN PREY, by John Sandford. The 31st book in the “Prey” series. When federal officers are killed, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to investigate matters.
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3. THE HILL WE CLIMB, by Amanda Gorman. The poem read on President Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day, by the youngest poet to write and perform an inaugural poem.
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4. THE FOUR WINDS, by Kristin Hannah. As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West.
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5. 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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6. LOVER UNVEILED, by J.R. Ward. The 19th book in the “Black Dagger Brotherhood” series. Sahvage and Mae fight against what she unleashed.
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7. THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, by Matt Haig. Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.
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8. THE SONG OF ACHILLES, by Madeline Miller. A re-imagining of Homer’s “Iliad” that is narrated by Achilles’ companion Patroclus.
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9. THE GOOD SISTER, by Sally Hepworth. Past secrets come up when Fern decides to pay back her twin sister, Rose, by having a baby for her.
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10. THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE,
by V.E. Schwab. A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie Larue has across centuries.
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NONFICTION
1. OUT OF MANY, ONE, by George W. Bush. Forty-three portraits by the former president, of men and women who have immigrated to the United States.
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2. CRYING IN H MART, by Michelle Zauner.
The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.
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3. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van der Kolk. How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
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4. ON THE HOUSE, by John Boehner. The former speaker of the House reflects on his time in Washington, key political figures and the current state of the Republican Party.
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5. GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew Mcconaughey. The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.
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6. CASTE, by Isabel Wilkerson. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.
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7. THE CODE BREAKER, by Walter Isaacson. How Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues invented CRISPR, a tool that can edit DNA.
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8. BLOOD AND TREASURE, by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. A depiction of frontiersman Daniel Boone.
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9. THINK AGAIN, by Adam Grant. An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
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10. BROKEN HORSES, by Brandi Carlile. The six-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter recounts difficulties during her formative years and her hard-won successes.
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