Best-sellers

May 24, 2020 at 1:38 a.m.

Best-sellers

Fiction

  1. CAMINO WINDS by John Grisham. The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead after a hurricane hits Camino Island.

  2. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens. In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survives alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

  3. IF IT BLEEDS by Stephen King. Four novellas.

  4. THE 20TH VICTIM by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. The 20th book in the Women's Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer looks into the murders of disreputable persons in three separate cities.

  5. ALL ADULTS HERE by Emma Straub. A repressed memory triggers Astrid Strick to weigh the outcomes of her parenting of her now-grown children.

  6. WALK THE WIRE by David Baldacci. The sixth book in the Memory Man series. Decker and Jamison investigate a murder in a North Dakota town in a fracking boom.

  7. BIG SUMMER by Jennifer Weiner. Daphne Berg's former best friend asks her to be the maid of honor at her wedding in Cape Cod.

  8. THE BOOK OF LONGINGS by Sue Monk Kidd. A scholarly young woman named Ana meets an 18-year-old Jesus and becomes caught up in a confluence of dangers.

  9. HELLO, SUMMER by Mary Kay Andrews. Conley Hawkins loses her big-city beat and takes over the gossip column of her family's small-town newspaper.

  10. AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins. A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.

Nonfiction

  1. UNTAMED by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.

  2. BECOMING by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband's political ascent.

  3. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson. An examination of the leadership of the prime minister Winston Churchill.

  4. EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.

  5. THE RURAL DIARIES by Hilarie Burton Morgan. The actress starts a family, transplants to a working farm and revitalizes a candy store in Rhinebeck, N.Y.

  6. THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch. How Allan Pinkerton, along with undercover agents, thwarted a lesser-known assassination attempt of Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore in 1861.

  7. THE MAMBA MENTALITY by Kobe Bryant. Various skills and techniques used on the court by the late Los Angeles Lakers player.

  8. THE HOUSE OF KENNEDY by James Patterson and Cynthia Fagen. A look at the achievements of the political family and what has been called "the Kennedy curse."

  9. HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD by Robert Kolker. From 1945 to 1965, a family in Colorado had 12 children, six of whom went on to develop schizophrenia.

  10. INCOMPARABLE by Brie Bella and Nikki Bella. The identical twins and WWE Hall of Famers share some of the challenges they faced.

Paperback fiction

  1. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng.

  2. NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney.

  3. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn.

  4. THEN SHE WAS GONE by Lisa Jewell.

  5. THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris.

Paperback nonfiction

  1. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk.

  2. THE GREAT INFLUENZA by John M. Barry.

  3. A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Sonia Purnell.

  4. JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson.

  5. WOW, NO THANK YOU by Samantha Irby.

Source: The New York Times

Editorial on 05/24/2020

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