N.Y. TIMES BEST-SELLERS
FICTION
1. THE PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. Matthew Keating, a past president and former Navy SEAL, goes on his own to find his abducted teenage daughter.
Last week: 1 Weeks on list: 2
2. THE MAIDENS, by Alex Michaelides. A therapist suspects a Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University of committing murder.
Last week: — Weeks on list: 1
3. THE LAST THING HE
TOLD ME, by Laura Dave. Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.
Last week: 4 Weeks on list: 7
4. MALIBU RISING, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. 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.
Last week: 5 Weeks on list: 3
5. GOLDEN GIRL, by Elin Hilderbrand. A Nantucket novelist gets one final summer to watch what happens from the great beyond.
Last week: 2 Weeks on list: 3
6. 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: 6 Weeks on list: 135
7. 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.
Last week: 7 Weeks on list: 8
8. 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.
Last week: 10 Weeks on list: 29
9. PROJECT HAIL MARY, by
Andy Weir. Ryland Grace awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders.
Last week: 9 Weeks on list: 7
10. PEOPLE WE MEET ON
VACATION, by Emily Henry. Opposites Poppy and Alex meet to vacation together one more time in hopes of saving their relationship.
Last week: 12 Weeks on list: 6
NONFICTION
1. KILLING THE MOB, by Bill
O’reilly and Martin Dugard. The 10th book in the conservative commentator’s Killing series looks at organized crime in the United States during the 20th century.
Last week: 1 Weeks on list: 7
2. LIVE YOUR LIFE, by Amanda Kloots with Anna Kloots. 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.
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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.
Last week: 2 Weeks on list: 43
4. GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew Mcconaughey. The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.
Last week: 5 Weeks on list: 35
5. THE BOMBER MAFIA, by Malcolm Gladwell. A look at the key players and outcomes of precision bombing during World War II.
Last week: 8 Weeks on list: 8
6. THE PREMONITION, by Michael Lewis. Stories of skeptics 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.
Last week: 6 Weeks on list: 7
7. UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.
Last week: 7Weeks on list: 67
8. 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.
Last week: 3 Weeks on list: 8
9. BORN A CRIME, by Trevor Noah. A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”
Last week: —Weeks on list: 74
10. ON JUNETEENTH, by Annette Gordon-reed. The Pulitzer Prize winner weaves together American history with personal memoir to show the importance of events in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865.
Last week: — Weeks on list: 2