NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLERS
Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, Feb. 29.
FICTION
1. BLINDSIDE, by James Patterson and James O. Born. (Little, Brown) The 12th book in the “Michael Bennett” series. A serial-killing spree might impact national security. WEEKS ON LIST: 1
2. THE WARSAW PROTOCOL, by Steve Berry. (Minotaur) The 15th book in the “Cotton Malone” series. The balance of power in Europe is imperiled. (1)
3. AMERICAN DIRT, by Jeanine Cummins. (Flatiron) A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel. (6)
4. 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. (77)
5. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press) An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland. (55)
6. COCONUT LAYER CAKE MURDER, by Joanne Fluke. (Kensington) Bakery owner Hannah Swensen’s sister’s boyfriend is accused of murder. (1)
7. THE LAST WISH, by Andrzej Sapkowski. (Orbit) Linked stories follow the exploits of Geralt of Rivia, a monster-slaying mercenary. (9)
8. THE SILENT PATIENT, by Alex Michaelides. (Celadon) Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband. (24)
9. THE DUTCH HOUSE, by Ann Patchett. (Harper) A sibling relationship is impacted when the family goes from poverty to wealth and back again over the course of many decades. (23)
10. THE GIVER OF STARS, by Jojo Moyes. (Pamela Dorman/Viking) In Depression-era Kentucky, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books. (19)
NONFICTION
1. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE, by Erik Larson. (Crown) An examination of the leadership of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. (1)
2. THE MAMBA MENTALITY, by Kobe Bryant. (Melcher Media/MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Various skills and techniques used on the court by the late Los Angeles Lakers player. (8)
3. UNKNOWN VALOR, by Martha MacCallum. (Harper) The Fox News anchor weaves stories of combat veterans who fought during World War II. (1)
4. THE HOPE OF GLORY, by Jon Meacham. (Convergent) The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer delves into the seven last sayings of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels. (1)
5. OPEN BOOK, by Jessica Simpson with Kevin Carr O’Leary. (Dey St.) The singer, actress and fashion designer discloses times of success, trauma and addiction. (4)
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. (106)
7. A VERY STABLE GENIUS, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. (Penguin Press) The Pulitzer Prizewinning journalists use firsthand accounts to chart patterns of behavior within the Trump administration. (6)
8. TALKING TO STRANGERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown) Famous examples of miscommunication serve as the backdrop to explain potential conflicts and misunderstandings. (25)
9. SAY NOTHING, by Patrick Radden Keefe. (Doubleday) A look at the conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles. (10)
10. JUST MERCY, by Bryan Stevenson. (Spiegel & Grau) A law professor and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death. (27)