BESTSELLERS
Fiction
1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
2. One Good Deed by David Baldacci. A World War II veteran on parole must find the real killer in a small town or face going back to jail.
3. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crow-era reform school in ways that impact them decades later.
4. The New Girl by Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon, the chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.
5. Dark Age by Pierce Brown. The fifth book in the “Red Rising” series.
6. Summer of ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand. The Levin family undergoes dramatic events with a son in Vietnam, a daughter in protests and dark secrets hiding beneath the surface.
7. Labyrinth by Catherine Coulter. The
23rd book in the “FBI Thriller” series. Agents Savich and Sherlock wend their way through a maze of lies to get to the bottom of a secret.
8. Chances Are ... by Richard Russo. Three men in their 60s who met in college reunite on Martha’s Vineyard, where mysterious events occurred in 1971.
9. Under Currents by Nora Roberts. Echoes of a violent childhood reverberate for Zane Bigelow when he starts a new kind of family in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
10. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. An 89-year-old Vivian Morris looks back at the direction her life took when she entered the 1940s New York theater scene.
Nonfiction
1. Educated by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists leaves home for university.
2. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. The inequality of female desire is explored through the sex lives of a homemaker, a high school student and a restaurateur.
3. Becoming by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.
4. Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin. The conservative commentator and radio host makes his case that the press is aligned with political ideology.
5. The Pioneers by David McCullough. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters.
6. Justice on Trial by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino. The conservative authors give their take on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
7. A Dream About Lightning Bugs by Ben Folds. A memoir by the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five.
8. Beyond Charlottesville by Terry McAuliffe. The former governor of Virginia describes the events behind the “Unite the Right” rally and suggests ways to prevent similar occurrences in the future.
9. The Second Mountain by David Brooks. A New York Times op-ed columnist espouses having an outward focus to attain a meaningful life.
10. American Carnage by Tim Alberta. A political correspondent narrates a decadelong civil war inside the GOP and Donald Trump’s ascension.