BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

1. THE NEW GIRL by Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon, chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.

2. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens. In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survives alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

3. THE NICKEL BOYS by Colson Whitehead. Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crowera reform school in ways that impact them decades later.

4. UNDER CURRENTS by Nora Roberts. Echoes of a violent childhood reverberate for Zane Bigelow when he starts a new kind of family in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

5. SUMMER OF ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand. The Levin family undergoes dramatic events with a son in Vietnam, a daughter in protests and dark secrets hiding beneath the surface.

6. WINDOW ON THE BAY by Debbie Macomber. A single mom’s life takes unexpected turns when her two children go off to college.

7. EVVIE DRAKE STARTS OVER by Linda Holmes. In a seaside town in Maine, a former Major League pitcher and a grieving widow assess their pasts.

8. CITY OF GIRLS by Elizabeth Gilbert. An 89-year-old Vivian Morris looks back at the direction her life took when she entered the 1940s New York theater scene.

9. BACKLASH by Brad Thor. Cut off from any support, Scot Harvath fights to get his revenge. 10. MRS. EVERYTHING by Jennifer Weiner. The story of two sisters, Jo and Bethie Kaufman, and their life experiences as the world around them changes drastically from the 1950s.

Nonfiction

1. EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.

2. AMERICAN CARNAGE by Tim Alberta. Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent narrates a decade-long civil war inside the GOP and Donald Trump’s concurrent ascension.

3. THE PIONEERS by David McCullough. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters.

4. BECOMING by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.

5. THREE WOMEN by Lisa Taddeo. The inequality of female desire is explored through the sex lives of a homemaker, a high school student and a restaurant owner.

6. UNFREEDOM OF THE PRESS by Mark R. Levin. The conservative commentator and radio host makes his case that the press is aligned with political ideology.

7. JUSTICE ON TRIAL by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino. The conservative authors give their take on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

8. AMERICA’S RELUCTANT PRINCE by Steven M. Gillon. A historian describes John F. Kennedy Jr. through the lens of their decades-long friendship.

9. HOWARD STERN COMES AGAIN by Howard Stern. The radio interviewer delves into some of his favorite on-air conversations from the past four decades of his career.

10. THE MOMENT OF LIFT by Melinda Gates. The philanthropist shares stories of empowering women to improve society.

Paperback fiction

1. THE ADVENTURE ZONE: MURDER ON THE ROCKPORT LIMITED! by Clint McElroy et al. Illustrated by Carey Pietsch.

2. BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate.

3. THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris.

4. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng.

5. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn.

Paperback nonfiction

1. BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah.

2. THEY CALLED US ENEMY by George Takei, Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott. Illustrated by Harmony Becker.

3. THE MUELLER REPORT with related materials by The Washington Post.

4. SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.

5. JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson.

Source: The New York Times