The New York Times List of Best Sellers for the week ending June 8, 2019:
FICTION
1. Where The Crawdads Sing
A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
A beekeeper’s quiet life is unsettled by her demanding mother, outgoing sister and neighboring widower.
The 18th book in the Women’s Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer investigates the disappearance of three female teachers.
Evie Milton uncovers a story going back a couple generations that may shatter a family myth.
The lives of neighboring families in a New York City suburb intertwine over four decades.
6. Redemption
The fifth book in the Memory Man series. The first man Amos Decker put behind bars asks to have his name cleared.
Drue Campbell inherits a run-down beach bungalow and takes a job at her estranged father’s personal injury attorney office.
8. Fire and Blood
9. The Silent Patient
Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
10. Blessing in Disguise
Isabelle McAvoy faces challenges as she raises three daughters from three separate fathers on her own.
11. The Stiehl Assassin
The third book in the Fall of Shannara series.
12. Normal People
The connection between a high school star athlete and a loner ebbs and flows when they go to Trinity College in Dublin.
13. Cari Mora
Hans-Peter Schneider pauses his ghastly deeds to seek a dead man’s gold hidden under a Miami mansion, but its caretaker’s surprising skills prove daunting.
14. Neon Prey
The 29th book in the Prey series. Lucas Davenport goes after a serial killer.
15. The Sentence is Death
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NON-FICTION
1. Unfreedom of the Press
Mark Levin
The conservative commentator and radio host makes his case that the press is aligned with political ideology.
2. Howard Stern Comes Again
Howard Stern
The radio interviewer delves into some of his favorite on-air conversations from the past four decades of his career.
3. The Pioneers
David McCullough
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters
Tara Westover
The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
5. 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.
6. Sea Stories
William R. McRaven
A memoir by the retired four-star Navy admiral, including the capture of Saddam Hussein and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden.
7. Range
David Epstein
An argument for how generalists excel more than specialists, especially in complex and unpredictable fields.
8. The Second Mountain
David Brooks
A New York Times Op-Ed columnist espouses having an outward focus to attain a meaningful life.
9. The British are Coming
Rick Atkinson
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist begins his Revolution Trilogy with events from 1775 to 1777.
10. Anthony Bourdain Remembered
CNN Staff
A collection of photographs and remembrances by some who were impacted by the chef and television host.
11. The Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates
An urgent call to courage and how women about themselves, their families, their work, and what’s possible in the world.
12. Spying on the South
Tony Horwitz
A retracing of Frederick Law Olmsted’s time as an undercover correspondent during the 1850s in the South for The New York Times and one of the designers of Central Park.
13. Furious Hours
Casey Cep
Harper Lee’s work on the true-crime story about a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members in the 1970s.
14. Sacred Duty
Tom Cotton
The veteran and Republican senator from Arkansas describes the services enacted by the Army unit known as the Old Guard.
15. Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense
Dan Abrams, David Fisher
The 1915 courtroom fight between William Barnes and the former president who had accused him of political corruption.
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