BEST-SELLERS
Fiction
1. 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.
2. GOLDEN IN DEATH by J.D. Robb. The 50th book of the In Death series. Eve Dallas seeks the sender of packages that give off toxic airborne fumes.
3. CROOKED RIVER by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The 19th book in the Agent Pendergast series. Human feet inside nondescript shoes wash ashore in Florida.
4. 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.
5. THE MUSEUM OF DESIRE by Jonathan Kellerman. The 35th book in the Alex Delaware series. Four unrelated victims are found slaughtered in a limousine.
6. SUCH A FUN AGE by Kiley Reid. Tumult ensues when Alix Chamberlain’s babysitter is mistakenly accused of kidnapping her charge.
7. THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides. Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
8. LOST by James Patterson and James O. Born. The new head of an FBI task force takes on a crime syndicate run by a pair of Russian nationals.
9. THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett. A sibling relationship is impacted when the family goes from poverty to wealth and back again over the course of many decades.
10. THE GIRL WITH THE LOUDING VOICE by Abi Daré. A 14-year-old Nigerian girl, who is sold as a wife, then as a servant, resolves to speak for herself and others.
Nonfiction
1. OPEN BOOK by Jessica Simpson with Kevin Carr O’Leary. The singer, actress and fashion designer discloses times of success, trauma and addiction.
2. A VERY STABLE GENIUS by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists use firsthand accounts to chart patterns of behavior within the Trump administration.
3. PROFILES IN CORRUPTION by Peter Schweizer. The author of Clinton Cash gives his evaluations of members of the Democratic Party.
4. EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
5. WHY WE’RE POLARIZED by Ezra Klein. The editor at large and co-founder of Vox offers his take on what causes divisions in America.
6. THE MAMBA MENTALITY by Kobe Bryant. Various skills and techniques used on the court by the Los Angeles Lakers player.
7. BECOMING by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.
8. TALKING TO STRANGERS by Malcolm Gladwell. Famous examples of miscommunication serve as the backdrop to explain potential conflicts and misunderstandings.
9. BROTHER & SISTER by Diane Keaton. The Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning actress recounts the troubles her sibling encountered.
10. MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE by Lori Gottlieb. A psychotherapist gains unexpected insights when she becomes another therapist’s patient.
Paperback fiction
1. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng.
2. ONE GOOD DEED by David Baldacci.
3. THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris.
4. BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate.
5. THE OUTSIDER by Stephen King.
Paperback nonfiction
1. JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson.
2. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk.
3. WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo.
4. MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL by Adam Higginbotham.
5. SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.