The New York Times List of Best Sellers for the week ending Aug. 11, 2019:
FICTION
1. 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.
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.
4. The New Girl
Gabriel Allon, the chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.
5. Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars)
A Star Wars saga. Grand Admiral Thrawn must choose between his sense of duty to the Chiss Ascendancy and loyalty to the Empire.
Elin Hilderbrand
The Levin family undergoes dramatic events with a son in Vietnam, a daughter in protests and dark secrets hiding beneath the surface.
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.
8. Window on the Bay
A single mom’s life takes unexpected turns when her two children go off to college.
An 89-year-old Vivian Morris looks back at the direction her life took when she entered the 1940s New York theater scene.
10. Ask Again, Yes
The lives of neighboring families in a New York City suburb intertwine over four decades.
Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
12. Backlash – A Thriller
Cut off from any support, Scot Harvath fights to get his revenge.
13. Lady in the Lake
In 1966, a housewife becomes a reporter and investigates the killing of a black woman in Baltimore.
14. 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.
15. The Chain
Rachel Klein is ensnared in a pay-it-forward criminal enterprise involving ransoms and kidnapping.
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. The Pioneers
David McCullough
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters.
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.
Mark Levin
The conservative commentator and radio host makes his case that the press is aligned with political ideology.
6. Justice on Trial
Mollie Hemingway; Carrie Severino
The conservative authors give their take on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
7. 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.
Steven M. Gillion
A historian describes John F. Kennedy Jr. through the lens of their decades-long friendship.
Gretchen McCulloch
The digital world’s influence on the English language.
10. Range
David Epstein
An argument for how generalists excel more than specialists, especially in complex and unpredictable fields.
Lori Gottlieb
A psychotherapist gains unexpected insights when she becomes another therapist’s patient.
12. The Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates
The philanthropist shares stories of empowering women to improve society.
Richard Preston
An account of the 2013-14 Ebola epidemic and the potential of more severe outbreaks in the future.
Dan Schilling; Lori Longfritz
An account of the actions taken by Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman in Afghanistan that earned him a posthumous Medal of Honor.
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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