NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLERS

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, March 7.

FICTION 1. HOUSE OF EARTH AND

BLOOD, by Sarah J. Maas. (Bloomsbury) Passion arises between Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar as they seek to avenge the deaths of Bryce’s friends. WEEKS ON LIST: 1

2. LONG RANGE, by C.J. Box. (Putnam) The 20th book in the “Joe Pickett” series. A grizzly bear attack and an attempted assassination of a local judge baffle the Wyoming game warden. (1)

3. THE NUMBERS GAME, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) An affair wrecks a marriage and a daughter seeks to get out from her family’s shadow while old dreams and new love are pursued. (1)

4. 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. (7)

5. 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. (78)

6. 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. (2)

7. LETHAL GAME, by Christine Feehan. (Berkley) The 16th book in the “GhostWalker” series. When Amaryllis is endangered, Malichai’s true identity risks being exposed. (1)

8. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press) An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland. (56)

9. YOU ARE NOT ALONE, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. (St. Martin’s) Shay Miller’s bad luck may get even worse when she meets a pair of sisters who always get what they want. (1)

10. TRACE ELEMENTS, by Donna Leon. (Atlantic Monthly) The 29th novel in the “Commissario Guido Brunetti” series. Circumstances around a motorcycle accident reveal that Venice’s water supply might be at risk. (1)

11. THE SILENT PATIENT, by Alex Michaelides. (Celadon) Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband. (25)

12. WRITERS & LOVERS, by Lily King. (Grove) Casey Peabody goes through a big transition as she tries to maintain a creative life. (1)

13. THE JETSETTERS, by Amanda Eyre Ward. (Ballantine) Old pains are unpacked as the fractured Perkins family goes on a trip through

Europe. (1)

14. 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. (24)

15. 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. (2)

NONFICTION

1. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE, by Erik Larson. (Crown) An examination of the leadership of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. (2)

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. (9)

3. UNKNOWN VALOR, by Martha

MacCallum. (Harper) The Fox News anchor weaves stories of combat veterans who fought during World War II. (2)

4. EDUCATED, by Tara Westover. (Random House) The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university. (107)

5. THE MAGA DOCTRINE, by Charlie Kirk. (Broadside) The founder of Turning Point USA espouses some ideas promulgated by President Donald Trump. (1)

6. 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. (5)

7. 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. (66)

8. SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (Harper) How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species. (97)

9. 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. (2)

10. TALKING TO STRANGERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown) Famous examples of miscommunication serve as the backdrop to explain potential conflicts and misunderstandings. (26)

11. JOHN ADAMS UNDER FIRE, by Dan Abrams and David Fisher. (Hanover Square) How the man who became the second president served as the defense lawyer for the British soldiers who stood accused in the Boston Massacre in 1770. (1)

12. 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. (7)

13. 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. (28)

14. SAY NOTHING, by Patrick Radden Keefe. (Doubleday) A look at the conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles. (11)

15. DARK TOWERS, by David Enrich. (Custom House) The New York Times finance editor traces the history and illicit dealings of Deutsche Bank. (2)