The New York Times List of Best Sellers for the week ending Aug. 18, 2019:
FICTION
1. Where The Crawdads Sing
A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
2. One Good Deed
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.
4. The New Girl
Gabriel Allon, the chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.
5. Dark Age
The fifth book in the Red Rising series.
6. 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.
Catherine Coulter
The 23rd book in the F.B.I. Thriller series. Agents Savich and Sherlock wend their way through a maze of lies to get to the bottom of a secret.
Richard Russo
Three men in their 60s who met in college reunite on Martha’s Vineyard, where mysterious events occurred in 1971.
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.
An 89-year-old Vivian Morris looks back at the direction her life took when she entered the 1940s New York theater scene.
11. Ask Again, Yes
The lives of neighboring families in a New York City suburb intertwine over four decades.
In a quiet suburb, a teenager has been breaking into homes and hacking into computers, while a woman is found murdered.
13. Window on the Bay
A single mom’s life takes unexpected turns when her two children go off to college.
Littleport resident Avery Greer and visitor Sadie Loman become good friends until Sadie mysteriously dies. Avery must fight the clock to clear her name and uncover the real killer.
15. Lady in the Lake
In 1966, a housewife becomes a reporter and investigates the killing of a black woman in Baltimore.
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. 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.
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.
Mark Levin
The conservative commentator and radio host makes his case that the press is aligned with political ideology.
5. The Pioneers
David McCullough
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters.
Mollie Hemingway; Carrie Severino
The conservative authors give their take on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
7. A Dream about Lightning Bugs
Ben Folds
A memoir by the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five.
Terry McAuliffe; John Lewis
The former governor of Virginia describes the forces and events behind the “Unite the Right” rally and suggests ways to prevent similar occurrences in the future.
9. The Second Mountain
David Brooks
A New York Times Op-Ed columnist espouses having an outward focus to attain a meaningful life.
10. 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.
Lori Gottlieb
A psychotherapist gains unexpected insights when she becomes another therapist’s patient.
12. Range
David Epstein
An argument for how generalists excel more than specialists, especially in complex and unpredictable fields.
Gretchen McCulloch
The digital world’s influence on the English language.
14. Signs
Laura Lynne Jackson
A medium details potential ways the deceased may speak to us through everyday events.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
A meditation on race in America
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