NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLERS
Rankings reflect sales for the week ending April 20, and include both electronic- and print-edition sales.
FICTION
1. REDEMPTION, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central Publishing) The fifth book in the “Memory Man” series. The first man Amos Decker put behind bars asks to have his name cleared. (Weeks on list: 1)
2. THE MISTER, by EL James. (Vintage) Maxim Trevelyan inherits several estates and overpowers his cleaner Alessia Demachi, an Albanian piano prodigy who has been trafficked into England. (1)
3. 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. (32)
4. NORMAL PEOPLE, by Sally Rooney. (Hogarth) The connection between a high school star athlete and a loner ebbs and flows when they go to Trinity College in Dublin. (1)
5. A GAME OF THRONES, by George R.R. Martin. (Bantam) In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering. Basis of the HBO series. (52)
6. 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. (32)
7. THE 13-MINUTE MURDER, by James Patterson. (Grand Central) Three stories: “Dead Man Running” (written with Christopher Farnsworth), “113 Minutes” (written with Max DiLallo) and “The 13-Minute Murder” (written with Shan Serafin). (1)
8. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, by A.J. Finn. (Morrow) A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem town house. (23)
9. THE OVERSTORY, by Richard Powers. (Norton) Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Nine people drawn to trees for different reasons fight for the last of the remaining acres of virgin forest. (1)
10. LOST ROSES, by Martha Hall Kelly. (Ballantine) In 1914, New York socialite Eliza Ferriday works to help White Russian families escape from the revolution. (2)
NONFICTION
1. BECOMING, by Michelle Obama. (Crown) The former first lady describes her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House, and how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent. (23)
2. THE SECOND MOUNTAIN, by David Brooks. (Random House) A New York Times op-ed columnist espouses having an outward focus to attain a meaningful life. (1)
3. EDUCATED, by Tara Westover. (Random House) The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university. (61)
4. LIFE WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME, by Chelsea Handler. (Spiegel & Grau) The comedian chronicles going into therapy and becoming an advocate for change. (2)
5. SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (Harper) How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species. (68)
6. SHORTEST WAY HOME, by Pete Buttigieg. (Liveright) A memoir by the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and the first openly gay Demo-cratic candidate to run for president of the United States. (5)
7. MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE, by Lori Gottlieb. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) A psychotherapist gains unexpected insights when she becomes another therapist’s patient. (3)
8. THE MATRIARCH, by Susan Page. (Twelve) A biography of former first lady Barbara Bush, based on interviews and her private diaries. (3)
9. SAVE ME THE PLUMS, by Ruth Reichl. (Random House) A memoir by the former restaurant critic of The New York Times and editor-inchief of Gourmet. (3)
10. BAD BLOOD, by John Carreyrou. (Knopf) The rise and fall of Theranos, the biotech startup that failed to deliver on its promise to make blood testing more efficient. (37)