The New York Times List of Best Sellers for the week ending April 28, 2019:
FICTION
1. Where The Crawdads Sing
A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
2. Someone Knows
A dark secret emerges when Allie Garvey returns home to attend a childhood friend’s funeral.
3. Lost Roses
In 1914, the New York socialite Eliza Ferriday works to help White Russian families escape from the revolution.
4. The Cornwalls Are Gone
An army intelligence officer must commit a crime or lose her kidnapped husband and daughter.
5. Two Weeks
6. Run Away
A family is torn apart when the daughter becomes addicted to drugs and goes missing.
7. The Tale Teller
8. Celtic Empire
The 25th book in the Dirk Pitt series.
9. The Silent Patient
Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
10. Metropolis
Bernie Gunther joins the Murder Commission in Berlin in 1928. The final Bernie Gunther novel completed before the author’s death.
11. Daisy Jones and the Six
A fictional oral history charting the rise and fall of a 1970s rock ‘n’ roll band.
The Wyoming game warden, Joe Pickett and Katelyn Hamm take on killers working for the Sinaloa cartel.
13. Miracle at St. Andrews
A former professional golfer visits the course in Scotland.
14. Lost and Wanted
An M.I.T. professor receives a phone call from her recently decreased screenwriter friend.
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.
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. Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
A psychotherapist gains unexpected insights when she becomes another therapist’s patient.
5. The Right Side of History
Ben Shapiro
The conservative political commentator reflects upon what he considers most impactful to Western civilization
6. Commander in Cheat
A sportswriter handicaps the current president’s character, based on how he plays golf.
7. Bad Blood
The rise and fall of the biotech startup Theranos.
8. American Moonshot
The development of NASA and the space race against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
9. Ladies Who Punch
A behind-the-scenes look at the daytime talk show ‘The View.”
10. Life Will Be the Death of Me
The comedian chronicles going into therapy and becoming an advocate for change.
11. Working
he Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer shares insights into his craft.
12. Charged
Issues created by the mass incarceration and our criminal justice system are explored through the cases of two young people.
13. Save Me the Plums
Ruth Reichi
A memoir by the former restaurant critic of the New York Times and editor in chief of Gourmet.
14. Stony the Road
Henry Louis Gates
The fight for reconstruction promise, the terror ignited by Jim Crow segregation and its modern reverberations.
15. Accidental Presidents
The stories of eight men who became president without being elected because their predecessors died in office.
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