Number One in Hardcover Fiction: The Correspondent: Virginia Evans, published by Crown
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HARDCOVER FICTION
The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
Kin
Tayari Jones, Knopf, $32, 9780525659181
Brawler: Stories
Lauren Groff, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593418420
Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622
Judge Stone
James Patterson, Viola Davis, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316579834
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 9780374619237
Operation Bounce House
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $32, 9780593820308
Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739
Once and Again
Rebecca Serle, Atria Books, $27, 9781668025918
What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
The Disappointment
Scott Broker, Catapult, $28, 9781646222858
Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Kate Quinn, William Morrow, $32, 9780063244788
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32, 9781984881991
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
Liza Minnelli, Grand Central Publishing, $36, 9781538773666
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
Gavin Newsom, Penguin Press, $30, 9781984881939
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir
Christina Applegate, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316594929
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
Tom Junod, Doubleday, $32, 9780375400391
The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
Paul Fischer, Celadon Books, $32, 9781250878724
Delusions: Of Grandeur, of Romance, of Progress
Cazzie David, St. Martin’s Press, $29, 9781250357632
Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
Jacob Soboroff, Mariner Books, $30, 9780063467965
Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service
Josh Shapiro, Harper, $30, 9780063463905
The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22, 9781668209028
Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
Emily Brontë, Penguin Books, $18, 9780143139140
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20, 9780593685778
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
Stoner
John Williams, NYRB Classics, $16.95, 9781590171998
The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood, Riverhead Books, $19, 9798217047369
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
Soft Core
Brittany Newell, Picador, $19, 9781250419989
Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21, 9780593689004
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $19, 9781668007983
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $18, 9781878424310
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
Elaine Pagels, Vintage, $20, 9780593314593
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
Manchán Magan, Chelsea Green, $19.95, 9781645023760
This Wild and Precious Life: A Journal
Mary Oliver, Clarkson Potter, $16.99, 9780593580288
The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079
Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807014271
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888904510
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
MASS MARKET
1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345409874
Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED
The Future Book
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217033171
Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
Decoy Saves Opening Day
Shohei Ohtani, Michael Blank, Fanny Liem (Illus.), HarperCollins, $21.99, 9780063460775
Don’t Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673
If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
Where’s Bluey? At Easter
Penguin Young Readers, Penguin Young Readers, $8.99, 9798217142675
Pat the Bunny Board Book
Dorothy Kunhardt, Random House Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9798217120949
Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780060245863
Maya’s Big Question
Meena Harris, Marissa Valdez (Illus.), Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316561341
CHILDREN’S INTEREST
Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110
The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan
Jasmine Warga, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250387189
The Lions’ Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817
Winnie-the-Pooh: 100th Anniversary Edition
A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illus.), Aladdin, $10.99, 9781665984126
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $19, 9798217043408
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Puffin, $6.99, 9780142414552
The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419741906
Dream On
Shannon Hale, Marcela Cespedes (Illus.), Roaring Brook Press, $14.99, 9781250843074
The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9780375842207
CHILDREN’S SERIES
Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic
Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
The First Cat in Space
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic
Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion
Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
Warriors Graphic Novels
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley