The New York Times List of Best Sellers for the week ending Aug. 4, 2019:
FICTION
1. The New Girl
Gabriel Allon, the chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.
2. Where The Crawdads Sing
A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
3. The Nickel Boys
Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crow-era reform school in ways that impact them decades later.
Nora Roberts
Echoes of a violent childhood reverberate for Zane Bigelow when he starts a new kind of family in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
Elin Hilderbrand
The Levin family undergoes dramatic events with a son in Vietnam, a daughter in protests and dark secrets hiding beneath the surface.
6. Window on the Bay
A single mom’s life takes unexpected turns when her two children go off to college.
In a seaside town in Maine, a former Major League pitcher and a grieving widow assess their pasts.
8. City of Girls
An 89-year-old Vivian Morris looks back at the direction her life took when she entered the 1940s New York theater scene.
9. Backlash – A Thriller
Cut off from any support, Scot Harvath fights to get his revenge.
10. Mrs. Everything
The story of two sisters, Jo and Bethie Kaufman, and their life experiences as the world around them changes drastically from the 1950s.
Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
12. The Chain
Rachel Klein is ensnared in a pay-it-forward criminal enterprise involving ransoms and kidnapping.
13. Lost and Found
A photographer embarks on a road trip to reconnect with three men she might have married.
An Amish family’s secrets are exposed when the grandmother is murdered and granddaughter is abducted.
15. Red Metal
After a Russian military attack, a small team of American and European soldiers unite against them.
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. American Carnage
Tim Alberta
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent narrates a decade-long civil war inside the GOP and Donald Trump’s concurrent ascension.
3. The Pioneers
David McCullough
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters.
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.
5. 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.
Mark Levin
The conservative commentator and radio host makes his case that the press is aligned with political ideology.
7. Justice on Trial
Mollie Hemingway; Carrie Severino
The conservative authors give their take on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Steven M. Gillion
A historian describes John F. Kennedy Jr. through the lens of their decades-long friendship.
Howard Stern
The radio interviewer delves into some of his favorite on-air conversations from the past four decades of his career.
10. The Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates
The philanthropist shares stories of empowering women to improve society.
11. The Second Mountain
David Brooks
A New York Times Op-Ed columnist espouses having an outward focus to attain a meaningful life.
Rick Atkinson
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist begins his Revolution Trilogy with events from 1775 to 1777.
Lori Gottlieb
A psychotherapist gains unexpected insights when she becomes another therapist’s patient.
Joy-Ann Reid
The MSNBC host gives her analysis of Donald Trump’s presidency.
15. Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem
Daniel R. Day; Mikael Awake
A memoir by the creator of 1980s high-end streetwear and owner of an eponymous boutique.
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