NATIONAL BEST-SELLERS

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Verses for the Dead: An Agent Pendergast Novel” by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

(Grand Central, $28)

2. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens

3. “The Reckoning: A Novel” by John Grisham

(Putnam, $27)

(Doubleday, $29.95)

4. “Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones, Dragons Ruled Westeros (A Song of Ice and Fire: A Targaryen History)” by George R. R. Martin

5. “Every Breath” by Nicholas Sparks

Central, $28)

6. “A Delicate Touch: A Stone Barrington Novel” by Stuart Woods

7. “Target: Alex Cross” by James Patterson

(Little, Brown, $29)

8. “Long Road to Mercy: An Atlee Pine Thriller” by David Baldacci

$29)

9. “Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel” by Lee Child

10. “The Boy: A Novel” by Tami Hoag

$28) (Bantam, $35) Last week: 2

(Grand

(Delacorte, $28.99)

(Putnam, $28)

(Grand Central,

(Dutton,