Best-sellers
Fiction
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens. A woman who survives alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
NEON PREY by John Sandford. The 29th book in the Prey series. Lucas Davenport goes after a serial killer.
REDEMPTION by David Baldacci. The fifth book in the Memory Man series. The first man Amos Decker put behind bars asks to have his name cleared.
LOST ROSES by Martha Hall Kelly. In 1914, New York socialite Eliza Ferriday works to help White Russian families escape from the revolution.
WAR OF THE SPARK: RAVNICA by Greg Weisman. The first book in the Magic: The Gathering: War of the Spark series. Nicol Bolas, the Elder Dragon, attacks the city of Ravnica.
NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney Hogarth. The connection between a high school star athlete and a loner ebbs and flows when they go to Trinity College in Dublin.
SOMEONE KNOWS by Lisa Scottoline. A dark secret emerges when Allie Garvey returns home to attend a childhood friend's funeral.
THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides. Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
FIRE AND BLOOD by George R.R. Martin. The first volume of the two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros.
MACHINES LIKE ME by Ian McEwan. In an alternative 1980s London, a love triangle develops between a couple and a synthetic human.
Nonfiction
BECOMING by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband's political ascent.
EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists leaves home for university.
THE MOMENT OF LIFT by Melinda Gates. The philanthropist shares stories of empowering women to improve society.
THE SECOND MOUNTAIN by David Brooks. A New York Times op-ed columnist espouses having an outward focus to attain a meaningful life.
LIFE WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME by Chelsea Handler. The comedian chronicles going into therapy and becoming an advocate for change.
AMERICA BEFORE by Graham Hancock. The author of Magicians of the Gods makes his case about the origins of civilizations.
MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE by Lori Gottlieb. A psychotherapist gains unexpected insights when she becomes another therapist's patient.
THE MATRIARCH by Susan Page. A biography of the former first lady Barbara Bush, based on interviews and her private diaries.
NANAVILLE by Anna Quindlen. The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist observes the joys of being a grandmother.
SHORTEST WAY HOME by Pete Buttigieg. A memoir by the current mayor of South Bend, Ind., and the first openly gay Democratic candidate to run for president of the United States.
Paperback fiction
THE MISTER by E L James.
THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris.
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn.
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles.
THE LOST GIRLS OF PARIS by Pam Jenoff.
Paperback nonfiction
THE MUELLER REPORT with related materials by The Washington Post.
BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah.
SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.
WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo.
THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk.
Source: The New York Times
Editorial on 05/12/2019