BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

  1. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens. In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survives alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

  2. ONE GOOD DEED by David Baldacci. A World War II veteran on parole must find the real killer in a small town or face going back to jail.

  3. THE NICKEL BOYS by Colson Whitehead. Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crow-era reform school in ways that impact them decades later.

  4. THE NEW GIRL by Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon, chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.

  5. DARK AGE by Pierce Brown. The fifth book in the Red Rising series.

  6. SUMMER OF ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand. The Levin family undergoes dramatic events with a son in Vietnam, a daughter in protests and dark secrets hiding beneath the surface.

  7. LABYRINTH by Catherine Coulter. The 23rd book in the FBI Thriller series. Agents Savich and Sherlock wend their way through a maze of lies to get to the bottom of a secret.

  8. CHANCES ARE … by Richard Russo. Three men in their 60s who met in college reunite on Martha’s Vineyard, where mysterious events occurred in 1971.

  9. UNDER CURRENTS by Nora Roberts. Echoes of a violent childhood reverberate for Zane Bigelow when he starts a new kind of family in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

  10. CITY OF GIRLS by Elizabeth Gilbert. An 89-year-old Vivian Morris looks back at the direction her life took when she entered the 1940s New York theater scene.

Nonfiction

  1. EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.

  2. THREE WOMEN by Lisa Taddeo. The inequality of female desire is explored through the sex lives of a homemaker, a high school student and a restaurateur.

  3. BECOMING by Michelle Obama. 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.

  4. UNFREEDOM OF THE PRESS by Mark R. Levin. The conservative commentator and radio host makes his case that the press is aligned with political ideology.

  5. THE PIONEERS by David McCullough. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters.

  6. JUSTICE ON TRIAL by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino. The conservative authors give their take on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

  7. A DREAM ABOUT LIGHTNING BUGS by Ben Folds. A memoir by the former frontman of alternative rock band Ben Folds Five.

  8. BEYOND CHARLOTTESVILLE by Terry McAuliffe. The former governor of Virginia describes the forces and events behind the Unite the Right rally and suggests ways to prevent similar occurrences in the future.

  9. THE SECOND MOUNTAIN by David Brooks. A New York Times op-ed columnist espouses having an outward focus to attain a meaningful life.

  10. AMERICAN CARNAGE by Tim Alberta. Politico’s chief political correspondent narrates a decade-long civil war inside the GOP and Donald Trump’s concurrent ascension.

Paperback fiction

  1. BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate.

  2. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng.

  3. THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris.

  4. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN by Garth Stein.

  5. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn.

Paperback nonfiction

  1. BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah.

  2. SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.

  3. JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson.

  4. THE MUELLER REPORT with related materials by The Washington Post.

  5. WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo.

Source: The New York Times

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