New York Times Best Sellers
FICTION
1. FUNNY STORY
by Emily Henry (Berkley) After their exes run off together, Daphne and Miles form a friendship and concoct a plan involving misleading photos.
2. THE WOMEN
by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s) In 1965, a nursing student follows her brother to serve during the Vietnam War and returns to a divided America.
3. A CALAMITY OF SOULS
by David Baldacci (Grand Central) Lawyers from different backgrounds represent a Black man charged with killing a wealthy white couple in Virginia in 1968.
4. THE COVENANT OF WATER
by Abraham Verghese (Grove) Three generations of a family living on south India’s Malabar Coast suffer the loss of a family member by drowning.
5. FOURTH WING
by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower)
Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.
6. IRON FLAME
by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) The second book in the “Empyrean” series. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training might require her to betray the man she loves.
7. TABLE FOR TWO by Amor Towles (Viking)
A collection of six short stories based in New York City around the year 2000 and a novella set during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
8. THE FAMILIAR
by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron) Luzia Cotado encounters dangers when her magic draws the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king.
9. EXTINCTION
by Douglas Preston (Forge) A Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent and a county sheriff look into misdeeds involving kidnapping, murder and genetic manipulation.
10. THE PARIS NOVEL
by Ruth Reichl (Random House)
FICTION
1. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION
by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Press) A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health impacts that a phone-based life has on children.
2. AN UNFINISHED LOVE STORY
by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster) A trove of items collected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s late husband inspired an appraisal of central figures and pivotal moments of the 1960s.
3. KNIFE
by Salman Rushdie (Random House)
The Booker Prize-winning author details the attack on him at the Chautauqua Institution in 2022 and the steps he took to heal from it.
4. THE WIDE WIDE SEA
by Hampton Sides (Doubleday)
The author of “On Desperate Ground” depicts Capt. James Cook’s final voyage and the controversies surrounding its legacy.
5. SHAKESPEARE: THE MAN WHO PAYS THE RENT
by Judi Dench with Brendan O’Hea
(St. Martin’s)
Through a series of conversations, the award-winning actress describes her work on Shakespearean roles over her long career.
6. LOVE, MOM
by Nicole Saphier (Broadside)
Fox News anchors and personalities contribute to a collection of reflections on motherhood.
7. THE WAGER
by David Grann (Doubleday)
The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events.
8. AGE OF REVOLUTIONS by Fareed Zakaria (Norton)
The CNN host draws out lessons for the present polarized era from the 17th-century Netherlands, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.
9. SOMEHOW
by Anne Lamott (Riverhead) Meditations and stories about the transformational power of love by the author of “Dusk, Night, Dawn” and “Bird by Bird.”
10. OUTLIVE
by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford (Harmony)