BEST-SELLERS

February 4, 2018 at 1:51 a.m.

by New York Times

Best-sellers

Fiction

  1. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn. A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.

  2. CITY OF ENDLESS NIGHT by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. A New York City detective and an FBI special agent track down a killer who decapitates numerous victims.

  3. IRON GOLD by Pierce Brown. The fourth book of the Red Rising Saga. A hero of the revolution finds his fate tied up with others as the war continues.

  4. ORIGIN by Dan Brown. A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.

  5. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng. An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.

  6. THE ROOSTER BAR by John Grisham. Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.

  7. THE IMMORTALISTS by Chloe Benjamin. Four adolescents learn the dates of their deaths from a psychic and their lives go on different courses.

  8. BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate. A South Carolina lawyer learns about the questionable practices of a Tennessee orphanage.

  9. THE WIFE BETWEEN US by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. The connections linking a hedge fund manager, his ex-wife and his fiancée are explored from several points of view.

  10. SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward. A 13-year-old boy comes of age in Mississippi while his black mother takes him and his toddler sister to pick up their white father, who is getting released from the state penitentiary.

Nonfiction

  1. FIRE AND FURY by Michael Wolff. A journalist offers an inside account of the first year of the Trump White House.

  2. IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN YOU THINK by David Cay Johnston. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how he believes the scope of the Trump presidency differs from all the others.

  3. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY by Neil deGrasse Tyson. A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the universe.

  4. LEONARDO DA VINCI by Walter Isaacson. A biography of the Italian Renaissance polymath which connects his work in various disciplines.

  5. TOGETHER WE RISE by Women’s March Organizers and Condé Nast. Photographs and profiles of the organizers and participants of the 2017 Women’s March.

  6. TRUMPOCRACY by David Frum. A former speechwriter for George W. Bush argues how the current president might push America to become an illiberal democracy.

  7. HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. The Harvard professors examine the erosion of democracies in Europe and Latin America and recommend ways to avoid authoritarianism.

  8. THE LAST BLACK UNICORN by Tiffany Haddish. The comedian recounts growing up in South Central Los Angeles, exacting revenge on an ex-boyfriend and finding success after a period of homelessness.

  9. WHEN by Daniel H. Pink. Research from several fields reveals the ideal time to make small decisions and big life changes.

  10. GRANT by Ron Chernow. A biography of the Union general of the Civil War and two-term president of the United States.

Paperback fiction

  1. THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS by Rupi Kaur.

  2. MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur.

  3. THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood.

  4. READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline.

  5. LILAC GIRLS by Martha Hall Kelly.

Paperback nonfiction

  1. HORSE SOLDIERS by Doug Stanton.

  2. THE NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander.

  3. THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson.

  4. BEING MORTAL by Atul Gawande.

  5. EVICTED by Matthew Desmond.

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