NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLERS
Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, March 28.
FICTION
1. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press) An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland. (WEEKS ON LIST: 59)
2. 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. (81)
3. THE BOY FROM THE WOODS, by Harlan Coben. (Grand Central) When a girl goes missing, a private investigator’s feral childhood becomes an asset in the search. (2)
4. THE SINNER, by J.R. Ward. (Gallery) The 18th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Jo Early is attracted to a potentially dangerous stranger. (1)
5. THE LAST ODYSSEY, by James Rollins. (Morrow) The 15th book in the Sigma Force series. Catastrophic dangers might be set in motion when a medieval ship is discovered in Greenland. (1)
6. IN FIVE YEARS, by Rebecca Serle. (Atria) A Manhattan lawyer finds herself confronting a vision she had when elements of it come to life on schedule. (3) 7. 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. (10)
8. THE GLASS HOTEL, by Emily St. John Mandel. (Knopf) Years after an international Ponzi scheme falls apart, one of its victims investigates the disappearance of a woman from a container ship. (1)
9. THEN SHE WAS GONE, by Lisa Jewell. (Atria) Ten years after her daughter disappears, a woman tries to get her life in order but remains haunted by unanswered questions. (2)
10. THE SILENT PATIENT, by Alex Michaelides. (Celadon) Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband. (28)
11. 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. (69)
12. THE MIRROR & THE LIGHT, by Hilary Mantel. (Holt) The third book in the Wolf Hall trilogy. After Anne Boleyn’s execution, Thomas Cromwell’s enemies assemble. (3)
13. THE CITY WE BECAME, by N.K. Jemisin. (Orbit) People from different walks of life in New York City receive messages through various senses. (1)
14. 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. (4)
NONFICTION
1. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE, by Erik Larson. (Crown) An examination of the leadership of the prime minister Winston Churchill. (5)
2. UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. (The Dial Press) The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. (3)
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. (110)
4. LADY IN WAITING, by Anne Glenconner. (Hachette) A memoir that provides a look into the royal family by a lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. (1) 5. THE GREAT INFLUENZA, by John M. Barry. (Penguin) An overview of the 1918 flu epidemic and cautionary tale for similar kinds of large-scale outbreaks. (3) 6. THE OFFICE, by Andy Greene. (Dutton) An oral history of the sitcom from its beginnings on the BBC through its nine-season run on American network TV. (1)
7. 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. (12)
8. 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. (8)
9. 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. (69)
10. SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (Harper) How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species. (100)
11. THE GIFT OF FORGIVENESS, by Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt. (Pamela Dorman) Stories, interviews and reflections on the act of letting go of resentment. (3)
12. TALKING TO STRANGERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown) Famous examples of miscommunication serve as the backdrop to explain potential conflicts and misunderstandings. (29)
13. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van der Kolk. (Penguin) How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery. (14) 14. 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. (31)