The New York Times List of Best Sellers for the week ending Sept. 15, 2019:
FICTION
1. A Better Man
The 15th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. The search for a missing girl is imperiled by rising floodwaters across the province.
2. Where The Crawdads Sing
A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
3. The Girl Who Lived Twice
Mikael Blomkvist helps Lisbeth Salander put her past behind her in the latest installment of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series.
4. The Dark Side
Painful childhood memories surface for Zoe Morgan when she has a child of her own.
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.
Alex Michaelides
A shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband and the therapist obsessed with uncovering her secret.
An expedition into the Sierra Nevada uncovers new twists to the events involving the Donner party.
The lives of neighboring families in a New York City suburb intertwine over four decades.
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.
F.B.I. Agent Drex Easton has a hunch that the conman Weston Graham is also a serial killer.
Daniel Silva
Gabriel Allon, the chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.
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.
Jeanine Pirro
The Fox News host posits those she labels anti-Trump conspirators have committed possible crimes and a plot to destroy liberty.
David McCullough
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters.
5. 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.
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.
Mat Best; Nls Parker; Ross Patterson
An inside look into military life by the YouTube personality and former Army Ranger
Ta-Nehisi Coates
A meditation on race in America.
11. Unfreedom of the Press
Mark R. Levin
The conservative commentator and radio host makes his case that the press is aligned with political ideology.
12. Range
David Epstein
An argument for how generalists excel more than specialists, especially in complex and unpredictable fields.
13. Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Details the rise and fall of biotech firm Theranos.
14. The Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates
The philanthropist shares stories of empowering women to improve society.
15. The British Are Coming
Rick Atkinson
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist begins his Revolution Trilogy with events from 1775 to 1777.
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