The New York Times List of Best Sellers for the week ending Sept. 1, 2019:
FICTION
1. Where The Crawdads Sing
A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
2. The Bitterroots
The fourth book in the Cassie Dewell series. The black sheep of an influential family is accused of assault.
3. The Inn
A former Boston police detective who is now an innkeeper must shield a seaside town from a crew of criminals.
Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crow-era reform school in ways that impact them decades later.
A World War II veteran on parole must find the real killer in a small town or face going back to jail.
A nanny working in a technology-laden house in Scotland goes to jail when one of the children dies.
7. The New Girl
Gabriel Allon, the chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.
Stuart Woods
The 50th book in the Stone Barrington series. Crimes come into focus in Key West and Manhattan.
9. Outfox
F.B.I. Agent Drex Easton has a hunch that the conman Weston Graham is also a serial killer.
Richard Russo
Three men in their 60s who met in college reunite on Martha’s Vineyard, where mysterious events occurred in 1971.
Linda Holmes
In a seaside town in Maine, a former Major League pitcher and a grieving widow assess their pasts.’
Katherine Center
A Texas firefighter braves her estranged mother and the entrenched culture of a Boston firehouse.
13. Summer of ’69
Elin Hilderbrand
The Levin family undergoes dramatic events with a son in Vietnam, a daughter in protests and dark secrets hiding beneath the surface.
Robert Crais
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike get more than they bargained for when they investigate the abduction of a bank teller.
Tea Obreht
The lives of a frontierswoman and a former outlaw intersect in the unforgiving climate of the Arizona Territory in 1893.
NON-FICTION
1. Educated
Tara Westover
The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
2. How to be Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
The inequality of female desire is explored through the sex lives of a homemaker, a high school student and a restaurant owner.
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. Three Women
Lisa Taddeo
The inequality of female desire is explored through the sex lives of a homemaker, a high school student and a restaurant owner.
David McCullough
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters.
6. Kochland
Christopher Leonard
How Koch Industries consolidated power and affected important facets of modern life over the last half-century.
Jia Tolentino
Nine essays delving into late capitalism, online engagement and the author’s personal history.
8. Range
David Epstein
An argument for how generalists excel more than specialists, especially in complex and unpredictable fields.
Andrew C. McCarthy
The Fox News contributor makes his case that the narrative of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and the Kremlin is a fraud.
10. Unfreedom of the Press
Mark R. Levin
The conservative commentator and radio host makes his case that the press is aligned with political ideology.
11. Texas Flood
Alan Paul; Andy Aledort
A biography of Stevie Ray Vaughan, the influential blues guitarist and musician who died in a helicopter crash in 1990 at the age of 35.
Lori Gottlieb
A psychotherapist gains unexpected insights when she becomes another therapist’s patient.
13. The Source of Self Regard
Toni Morrison
A collection of essays and speeches written over four decades, including a eulogy for James Baldwin and the author’s Nobel lecture.
14. The Yellow House: A Memoir
Sarah M. Broom
Identity and inequality are explored in the history of a family and home in New Orleans both before and after Hurricane Katrina.
15. The Mosquito
Timothy C. Weingard
Ways in which this insect has affected economies, wars, civilizations and more.
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