Number One in Hardcover Fiction: James by
Percival Everett, Published by Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
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HARDCOVER FICTION
- James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370 - The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250884251 - The Hunter
Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493434 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619 - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946 - Until August
Gabriel García Márquez, Anne McLean (Transl.), Knopf, $22, 9780593801994 - A Calamity of Souls
David Baldacci, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538765029 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House, $28, 9780593597033 - Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30, 9780063327528 - The Bee Sting
Paul Murray, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30, 9780374600303 - Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345 - The Extinction of Irena Rey
Jennifer Croft, Bloomsbury Publishing, $28.99, 9781639731701 - A Fate Inked in Blood
Danielle L. Jensen, Del Rey, $29.99, 9780593599839
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416 - Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28, 9780593730249 - An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663 - The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.99, 9781668007976 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley, MCD, $27, 9780374609849 - Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9780393239232 - Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma
Claire Dederer, Knopf, $28, 9780525655114 - Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
Kara Swisher, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781982163891 - Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia, M.D., Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32, 9780593236598 - Like Love: Essays and Conversations
Maggie Nelson, Graywolf Press, $32, 9781644452813 - Indulge: Delicious and Decadent Dishes to Enjoy and Share
Valerie Bertinelli, Harvest, $35, 9780063244726
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.), Tor, $18.99, 9780765382030 - Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569 - How to End a Love Story
Yulin Kuang, Avon, $18.99, 9780063310681 - Old God’s Time
Sebastian Barry, Penguin, $18, 9780593296127 - A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $18, 9780143110439 - Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $19, 9780399562976 - Weyward
Emilia Hart, St. Martin’s Griffin, $19, 9781250842725 - The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Griffin, $19, 9781250229533 - A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583 - Bunny
Mona Awad, Penguin, $17, 9780525559757 - Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498 - Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316556323
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791 - The Eater Guide to Los Angeles
Eater, Abrams Image, $19.99, 9781419765827 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin, Vintage, $25, 9780375726262 - Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories
Steve Almond, Zando, $18, 9781638931300 - Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
Oliver Darkshire, W. W. Norton & Company, $17.99, 9781324074786 - Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott, Vintage, $17, 9780385480017 - Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933 - Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Malcolm Harris, Back Bay Books, $22.99, 9780316592017 - Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $17, 9781101974537 - Meditations: A New Translation
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
MASS MARKET
- Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741 - And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765365279 - Carrie
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743664 - Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718 - Something, Someday
Amanda Gorman, Christian Robinson (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593203255 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - Roar-Choo!
Charlotte Cheng, Dan Santat (Illus.), Rocky Pond Books, $18.99, 9780593531754 - Dragon’s First Taco
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593533178 - Grumpy Monkey
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997 - Hot Dog
Doug Salati, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593308431 - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780060245863
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207 - The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo, Timothy Basil Ering (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9780763680893 - Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250857439 - If Only I Had Told Her
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781728276229 - Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White, Harper, $10.99, 9780064400558 - The Night War
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Dial Books, $17.99, 9780735228566 - The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203 - Memory Garden
Zohreh Ghahremani, Susie Ghahremani (Illus.), Godwin Books, $18.99, 9781250843036 - Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Ember, $14.99, 9780593374191 - Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second - Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Amulet
Kazu Kibuishi, Graphix - The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic
