N.Y. TIMES BEST-SELLERS
FICTION
1. SOOLEY, by John Grisham. Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.
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2. FINDING ASHLEY,
by Danielle Steel. Two estranged sisters, one a former bestselling author, the other a nun, reconnect as one searches for the child the other gave up.
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3. 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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4. FUGITIVE TELEMETRY, by Martha Wells. The sixth book in the “Murderbot Diaries” series. When a dead body turns up on Preservation Station, Murderbot must speak to humans.
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. THE SENTINEL, by Lee Child and Andrew Child. Jack Reacher intervenes on an ambush in Tennessee and uncovers a conspiracy.
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NONFICTION
1. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey. An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.
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2. THE BOMBER MAFIA, by Malcolm Gladwell. A look at the key players and outcomes of precision bombing during World War II.
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3. YOU ARE YOUR BEST THING, edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown. An anthology of writing on the Black experience and shame resilience.
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4. HOW Y’ALL DOING? by Leslie Jordan. A collection of essays by the Emmy-winning actor who became a viral sensation without knowing what that phrase meant at the time.
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. NOMADLAND, by Jessica Bruder. A look at an expanding low-cost labor pool, which largely consists of transient older adults, and what this might portend.
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9. UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.
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10. 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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