BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

1. HOLLY by Stephen King. Private detective Holly Gibney investigates whether a married pair of octogenarian academics had anything to do with Bonnie Dahl’s disappearance.

2. FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros. Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.

3. VINCE FLYNN: CODE RED by Kyle Mills. The 22nd book in the Mitch Rapp series. Rapp and his team try to foil a plot by Russia without being discovered.

4. TOM LAKE by Ann Patchett. Three daughters who return to their family orchard in the spring of 2020 learn about their mother’s relationship with a famous actor. 5. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus. A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.

6. FALL OF RUIN AND WRATH by Jennifer L. Armentrout. In a world where only nine cities were spared divine destruction, Calista must decide whether to follow her intuition to safety or court calamity by pursuing a love.

7. DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver. Winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A re-imagining of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.

8. THE VASTER WILDS by Lauren Groff. A servant girl who escapes with almost nothing from a colonial settlement finds the beliefs she learned are tested.

Nonfiction

1. ELON MUSK by Walter Isaacson. The author of “The Code Breaker” traces Musk’s life and summarizes his work on electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence.

2. COUNTING THE COST by Jill Duggar with Derick Dillard and Craig Borlase. A behindthe-scenes account of the reality TV series “19 Kids and Counting” and a portrayal of life inside the Duggar family.

3. OUTLIVE by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford. A look at recent scientific research on aging.

4. TO INFINITY AND BEYOND by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lindsey Nyx Walker. Science and pop culture intertwine in this exploration of the cosmos, which includes parallel worlds and time travel.

5. SCATTERSHOT by Bernie Taupin. A memoir by the lyricist best known for his collaborations with Elton John.

6. PUNISHED FOR DREAMING by Bettina L. Love. A professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, looks at the impact of some public-school policies on Black children over the last four decades.

7. THE WAGER by David Grann. The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events. 8. DOPPELGANGER by Naomi Klein. The author of “On Fire” and “No Is Not Enough” explores the mirror-worlds of online paranoia and conspiracy theories in a divided culture.

Paperback fiction

1. THINGS WE LEFT BEHIND by Lucy Score.

2. TOO LATE by Colleen Hoover.

3. THE HOUSEMAID by Freida McFadden. 4. ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN by Hannah Nicole Maehrer.

Paperback nonfiction

1. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by David Grann.

2. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk.

3. AMERICAN PROMETHEUS by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

4. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer.