NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLERS

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, Aug. 15.

1. 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. (Weeks on list, 101)

2. CHOPPY WATER, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam) The 54th book in the “Stone Barrington” series. Things get rough for Stone as he goes after criminals in New York City and Key West. (1)

3. THE MIDWIFE MURDERS, by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo. (Grand Central) A single mom teams up with an NYPD detective to solve a case involving misdeeds at a university hospital. (1)

4. A PRIVATE CATHEDRAL, by James Lee Burke. (Simon & Schuster) The 23rd book in the “Dave Robicheaux” series. Rival Louisiana crime families and a time-traveling superhuman assassin bring up Robicheaux’s personal demons. (1)

5. THE VANISHING HALF, by Brit Bennett. (Riverhead) The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine. (11)

6. THE GUEST LIST, by Lucy Foley. (Morrow) A wedding between a TV star and a magazine publisher on an island off the coast of Ireland turns deadly. (11)

7. 28 SUMMERS, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Little, Brown) A relationship that started in 1993 between Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud comes to light while she is on her deathbed and his wife runs for president. (9)

8. THE ORDER, by Daniel Silva. (Harper) The 20th book in the “Gabriel Allon” series. The art restorer and spy cuts his family’s vacation short to investigate whether Pope Paul VII was murdered. (5)

9. 1ST CASE, by James Patterson and

Chris Tebbetts. (Little, Brown) After getting kicked out of MIT, Angela Hoot interns with the FBI and tracks the murderous siblings known as the Poet and the Engineer. (3)

10. 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. (7)

11. NEAR DARK, by Brad Thor. (Emily Bestler/Atria) The 19th book in the “Scot Harvath” series. With a bounty on his head, Harvath makes an alliance with a Norwegian intelligence operative. (4)

12. 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. (30) 13. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press) An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland. (79)

14. THE SILENT PATIENT, by Alex Michaelides. (Celadon) Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband. (35)

15. THE SILENT WIFE, by Karin Slaughter. (Morrow) The 10th book in the “Will Trent” series. Investigations of two crimes force Trent to call on his girlfriend’s expertise as a medical examiner. (2)

NONFICTION

1. LIVE FREE OR DIE, by Sean Hannity. (Threshold Editions) The Fox News host offers his assessment on what is at stake in the 2020 election. (2)

2. TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH, by Mary L. Trump. (Simon & Schuster) The clinical psychologist gives her assessment of events and patterns inside her family and how they shaped President Donald Trump. (5)

3. FINDING FREEDOM, by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand. (Dey St.) The duke and duchess of Sussex’s journey from courtship to their decision to step away from their royal lives. (1)

4. CASTE, by Isabel Wilkerson. (Random House) The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today. (2)

5. UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. (Dial)

The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. (23)

6. HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST, by Ibram X. Kendi. (One World) A primer for creating a more just and equitable society through identifying and opposing racism. (16)

7. WHITE FRAGILITY, by Robin DiAngelo. (Beacon Press) Historical and cultural analyses on what causes defensive moves by white people and how this inhibits crossracial dialogue. (21)

8. EVIL GENIUSES, by Kurt Andersen. (Random House) The author of “Fantasyland” looks at the economic, cultural and political forces to which he ascribes the undermining and dismantling of the American middle class. (1)

9. THE TRUTHS WE HOLD, by Kamala Harris. (Penguin) A memoir by the daughter of immigrants who is now a California senator and the 2020 Democratic candidate for vice president. (5)

10. THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, by Isabel Wilkerson. (Vintage) An account of the Great Migration of 1915-70, in which nearly 6 million African Americans abandoned the South. (3)

11. SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE, by Ijeoma Oluo. (Seal) A look at the contemporary racial landscape of the United States. (13)

12. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE, by Erik Larson. (Crown) An examination of the leadership of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. (25)

13. EDUCATED, by Tara Westover. (Random House) The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university. (123) 14. IT WAS ALL A LIE, by Stuart Stevens. (Knopf) The former political campaign strategist evaluates the changes within the Republican Party in the last half-century. (2) 15. BORN A CRIME, by Trevor Noah. (Spiegel & Grau) A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.” (70)