The New York Times List of Best Sellers for the week ending Sept. 8, 2019:
FICTION
1. Where The Crawdads Sing
A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
2. Old Bones
An expedition into the Sierra Nevada uncovers new twists to the events involving the Donner party.
A former Boston police detective who is now an innkeeper must shield a seaside town from a crew of criminals.
A World War II veteran on parole must find the real killer in a small town or face going back to jail.
Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crow-era reform school in ways that impact them decades later.
A nanny working in a technology-laden house in Scotland goes to jail when one of the children dies.
7. The Last Widow
The abduction of a Centers for Disease Control scientist and explosions in an Atlanta neighborhood portend a massacre.
The fourth book in the Cassie Dewell series. The black sheep of an influential family is accused of assault.
Tea Obreht
The lives of a frontierswoman and a former outlaw intersect in the unforgiving climate of the Arizona Territory in 1893.
Alex North
A serial killer’s methods from 20 years ago resonate in the town of Featherbank when a young boy goes missing.
11. Outfox
F.B.I. Agent Drex Easton has a hunch that the conman Weston Graham is also a serial killer.
Alex Michaelides
A shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband and the therapist obsessed with uncovering her secret.
Philippa Gregory
Suspicions surround Alinor, a widow who is skilled with herbs, during the English Civil War in 1648.
14. Evvie Drake Starts Over
Linda Holmes
In a seaside town in Maine, a former Major League pitcher and a grieving widow assess their pasts.
The lives of neighboring families in a New York City suburb intertwine over four decades.
NON-FICTION
1. Educated
Tara Westover
The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
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.
3. 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.
David McCullough
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters.
Mat Best; Nls Parker; Ross Patterson
An inside look into military life by the YouTube personality and former Army Ranger
6. 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.
Lori Gottlieb
A psychotherapist gains unexpected insights when she becomes another therapist’s patient.
Jia Tolentino
Nine essays delving into late capitalism, online engagement and the author’s personal history.
9. Unfreedom of the Press
Mark R. Levin
The conservative commentator and radio host makes his case that the press is aligned with political ideology.
10. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
A meditation on race in America.
11. Range
David Epstein
An argument for how generalists excel more than specialists, especially in complex and unpredictable fields.
12. The Outlaw Ocean
Ian Urbina
A New York Times investigative reporter examines the difficulties of policing the high seas.
13. Kochland
Christopher Leonard
How Koch Industries consolidated power and affected important facets of modern life over the last half-century.
Charles King
How Franz Boas and his cohort of anthropologists upended fixed racial categorizations a century ago.
15. The Second Mountain
David Brooks
A New York Times Op-Ed columnist espouses having an outward focus to attain a meaningful life.
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