NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLERS

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Oct. 13, and include both electronicand print-edition sales.

FICTION

1. HOLY GHOST, by John Sandford. (Putnam) Virgil Flowers investigates shootings in a Minnesota town following an attempt to revive its ailing economy. (Weeks on list: 1)

2. AMBUSH, by James Patterson and James O. Born. (Little, Brown) Michael Bennett discovers that an assassin is targeting him and his family. (1)

3. THE NEXT PERSON YOU MEET IN HEAVEN, by Mitch Albom. (Harper)

The sequel to “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” follows Annie on her heavenly journey. (1)

4. THE WITCH ELM, by Tana French. (Viking) After Toby Hennessy retreats to his family’s ancestral home, a skull discovered in the backyard exposes his family’s past. (1)

5. THE CLOCKMAKER’S DAUGHTER, by Kate Morton. (Atria) A century-old mystery at the Birchwood Manor on the Thames connects the lives of an archivist and artist. (1)

6. WINTER IN PARADISE, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Little, Brown) Irene Steele uncovers her husband’s secret life on a Caribbean island following his death. (1) 7. A SPARK OF LIGHT, by Jodi

Picoult. (Ballantine) The lives of patients, doctors and activists intersect when a gunman holds them hostage in a woman’s health center in Mississippi. (2)

8. KILLING COMMENDATORE, by Haruki Murakami. (Knopf) The discovery of an unseen work in an artist’s attic unleashes a series of bizarre occurrences that a painter must navigate. (1) 9. VINCE FLYNN: RED WAR, by Kyle Mills. (Emily Bestler/Atria) When the Russian prime minister plots to invade the Baltics, only Mitch Rapp can stop him. (3)

10. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect. (5)

11. CRAZY RICH ASIANS, by Kevin Kwan. (Anchor) A New Yorker gets a surprise when she spends the summer with her boyfriend in Singapore. (18)

12. THE TATTOOIST OF

AUSCHWITZ, by Heather Morris. (Harper) A concentration camp detainee tasked with permanently marking fellow prisoners falls in love with one of them. (6)

NONFICTION

1. KILLING THE SS, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt) A look at the postwar manhunt for members of Hitler’s inner circle. (1)

2. SHIP OF FOOLS, by Tucker Carlson. (Free Press) The Fox News anchor argues that America’s ruling class is out of touch with everyday citizens. (2)

3. PRESIDENTS OF WAR, by Michael Beschloss. (Crown) How American presidents waged wars and expanded the power of the executive branch. (1)

4. FEAR, by Bob Woodward. (Simon & Schuster) Based on hours of interviews with sources, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes debates and decision-making within the Trump White House. (5)

5. THE FIFTH RISK, by Michael Lewis. (Norton) The author of “The Big Short” examines how the Trump administration staffs its federal agencies. (2)

6. EDUCATED, by Tara Westover. (Random House) The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university. (34)

7. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, by David Grann. (Doubleday) The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. (63)

8. IN PIECES, by Sally Field. (Grand Central) A memoir by the two-time Academy Award and three-time Emmy Award winner. (4)

9. LEADERSHIP, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. (Simon & Schuster) The challenges that shaped the leadership abilities of four presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. (4) 10. THIRST, by Scott Harrison. (Currency) A memoir by the founder of the nonprofit Charity: Water. (2)

11. SPYGATE, by Dan Bongino and D.C. McAllister with Matt Palumbo. (Post Hill Press) A case for how President Donald Trump’s opponents tried to sabotage the 2016 election. (1)

12. SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (Harper) How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species. (43)