The New York Times List of Best Sellers for the week ending April 21, 2019:
FICTION
1. Where The Crawdads Sing
A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
2. The Cornwalls Are Gone
An army intelligence officer must commit a crime or lose her kidnapped husband and daughter.
3. The Savior
4. Run Away
A family is torn apart when the daughter becomes addicted to drugs and goes missing.
5. Celtic Empire
The 25th book in the Dirk Pitt series.
6. The Silent Patient
Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
7. Daisy Jones and the Six
A fictional oral history charting the rise and fall of a 1970s rock ‘n’ roll band.
8. Cemetery Road
The journalist Marshall McEwan returns to his hometown, which is shaken by two deaths and an economy on the brink.
9. Wolf Pack
The Wyoming game warden, Joe Pickett and Katelyn Hamm take on killers working for the Sinaloa cartel.
10. The Chef
Caleb Rooney, a police detective and celebrity food truck chef, must clear his name of murder allegations.
11. Wild Card
The 49th book in the Stone Barrington series.
12. The Last Romantics
A family crisis tests the bonds and ideals of a renowed poet and her siblings.
13. The A List
The 14th book in the Ali Reynolds Series. An imprisoned fertility doctor seeks revenge.
14. The American Agent
The 15th book in the Maisle Dobbs series. While the Germans attack the British Isles, Maisie must solve a case and protect a young evacuee.
15. The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See
The friendship over many decades of two female divers from the Korean Island of Jeju is pushed to a breaking point.
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NON-FICTION
1. Becoming
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.
2. Educated
Tara Westover
The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
3. The Matriarch
Susan Page
A biography of the former first lady Barbara Bush, based on interviews and her private diaries.
4. The Right Side of History
Ben Shapiro
The conservative political commentator reflects upon what he considers most impactful to Western civilization
5. Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
A psychotherapist gains unexpected insights when she becomes another therapist’s patient.
6. Commander in Cheat
A sportswriter handicaps the current president’s character, based on how he plays golf.
7. Ladies Who Punch
A behind-the-scenes look at the daytime talk show ‘The View.”
8. Doing Justice
The former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York describes some of his career highlights and gives insights into our legal system.
9. Bad Blood
The rise and fall of the biotech startup Theranos.
10. American Moonshot
The development of NASA and the space race against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
11. Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
A look at the conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles.
12. The Unwinding of the Miracle
Julie Yip-Williams
After receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, a lawyer and a mother of two chronicles her life.
13. The Case for Trump
A defense stating that the current president adopted several traditional conservative positions.
14. The Shortest Way Home
Pete Buttigieg
A memoir by the current mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and first openly gay Democratic candidate to run for president of the United States.
15. Finding My Voice
Valerie Jarrett
A memoir by President Obama’s longest-serving senior advisor.
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