New York Times Best Sellers
Fiction 1. TO PARADISE
by Hanya Yanagihara (Doubleday)
Difficult circumstances and societal pressures affect characters living in America in 1893, 1993 and 2093.
2. THE MAID
by Nita Prose (Ballantine)
When a wealthy man is found dead in his room, a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel becomes a lead suspect.
3. SOMETHING TO HIDE
by Elizabeth George (Viking)
The 21st book in the “Inspector Lynley” series. Lynley pursues a killer who might be hiding in North London’s Nigerian community.
4. THE HORSEWOMAN
by James Patterson and Mike Lupica (Little, Brown)
As the Paris Olympics draw near, a mother and daughter, who are champion horse riders, compete against each other.
5. THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY
by Amor Towles (Viking)
Two friends who escaped from a juvenile work farm take Emmett Watson on an unexpected journey to New York City in 1954.
6. THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME
by Laura Dave (Simon & Schuster)
Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.
7. THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
by Matt Haig (Viking)
Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.
8. THE JUDGE’S LIST
by John Grisham (Doubleday)
The second book in the “Whistler” series. Investigator Lacy Stoltz goes after a serial killer and closes in on a sitting judge.
9. A FLICKER IN THE DARK
by Stacy Willingham (Minotaur)
When teenage girls go missing, a psychologist in Baton Rouge grapples with echoes from her past.
10. WISH YOU WERE HERE
by Jodi Picoult (Ballantine)
Diana O’Toole reevaluates her seemingly perfect life when a pandemic disrupts her vacation in the Galápagos Islands.
Nonfiction 1. UNTHINKABLE
by Jamie Raskin (Harper)
The Maryland congressman describes leading the impeachment effort against the former president shortly after his son’s death by suicide and the insurrection at the Capitol.
2. THE 1619 PROJECT
edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein (One World)
Viewing America’s entanglement with slavery and its legacy, in essays adapted and expanded from The New York Times Magazine.
3. GREENLIGHTS
by Matthew McConaughey (Crown)
The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.
4. WILL
by Will Smith with Mark Manson (Penguin Press)
The actor, producer and musician tells his life story and lessons he learned along the way.
5. CRYING IN H MART
by Michelle Zauner (Knopf)
The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.
6. HOW CIVIL WARS START
by Barbara F. Walter (Crown)
A political scientist looks at increasing civil wars around the globe and the potential for a second one in the United States.
7. THE STORYTELLER
by Dave Grohl (Dey Street)
A memoir by the musician known for his work with Foo Fighters and Nirvana.
8. CHASING HISTORY
by Carl Bernstein (Holt)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist details his journey of self-education in the newsrooms of Washington, D.C.
9. A LITTLE CLOSER TO HOME
by Ginger Zee (Hyperion Avenue)
The chief meteorologist for ABC News shares some of her childhood difficulties and ongoing struggles.
10. UNTAMED
by Glennon Doyle (Dial)
The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.