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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 25

PAPERBACK SALES PERIOD OF JULY 5-11

WEEKTHIS WEEKLAST ON LISTWEEKS WEEKLAST

1 1 LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, Ng. (Penguin) An artist upends a quiet town by Celeste^62

outside Cleveland.

2 2 THEN SHE WAS GONE, Ten years after her daughter disappears, a by Lisa Jewell. (Atria)^52

woman tries to get her life in order.

3 3 THE NICKEL BOYS, (Anchor) Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim by Colson Whitehead.^2

Crow-era reform school in ways that impact

them decades later.

4 5 CIRCE, banishes Helios’ daughter to an island.by Madeline Miller. (Back Bay) Zeus^12

5 4 THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, (Morrow) A recluse who drinks heavily and by A .J. Finn.^64

takes prescription drugs may have witnessed

a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.

6 8 THE GUARDIANS, Cullen Post, a lawyer and Episcopal minister, by John Grisham. (Bantam)^4

antagonizes some ruthless killers when he

takes on a wrongful conviction case.

7 11 THE NIGHTINGALE, Martin’s Griffin) Two sisters in World War by Kristin Hannah. (St.^47

II France: one struggling to survive in the

countryside, the other joining the Resistance.

8 9 BEFORE WE WERE YOURS, (Ballantine) A South Carolina lawyer learns by Lisa Wingate.^60

about the questionable practices of a

Tennessee orphanage.

9 13 HUSH, Fox. (Grand Central) The fourth book in the by James Patterson and Candice^6

Detective Harriet Blue series.

10 7 A MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT, (Grand Central) When Atlee Pine returns by David Baldacci.^5

to her hometown to investigate her sister’s

kidnapping from 30 years ago, she winds up

tracking a potential serial killer.

11 LADY IN THE LAKE, (Morrow) In 1966, a housewife becomes a by Laura Lippman.^1

reporter and investigates the killing of a Black

woman in Baltimore.

12 14 BEACH READ, relationship develops between a literary fiction by Emily Henry. (Berkley) A^7

author and a romance novelist as they both try

to overcome writer’s block.

13 THIS TENDER LAND, (Atria) Four orphans escape a Minnesota by William Kent Krueger.^3

school and encounter a cross-section of

different people struggling during the Great

Depression.

14 6 NORMAL PEOPLE, The connection between a high school star by Sally Rooney. (Hogarth)^21

athlete and a loner ebbs and flows when they

go to Trinity College in Dublin.

15 ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, Doerr. (Scribner) The lives of a blind French by Anthony^73

girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy

before and during World War II.

1 1 WHITE FRAGILITY, (Beacon) Historical and cultural analyses on by Robin DiAngelo.^97

what causes defensive moves by white people.

2 3 SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE, Ijeoma Oluo. (Seal) A look at the current racial by^8

landscape of the United States.

3 4 THE COLOR OF LAW, (Liveright) A case for how the American by Richard Rothstein.^11

government abetted racial segregation.

4 2 STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING, X. Kendi. (Bold Type) A look at anti-Black by Ibram^8

racist ideas and their effect on the course of

American history.

5 ALEXANDER HAMILTON, (Penguin) A biography of the first Treasury by Ron Chernow.^110

secretary and one of the Founding Fathers of

the United States.

6 5 JUST MERCY, & Grau) A civil rights lawyer’s memoir of his by Bryan Stevenson. (Spiegel^213

decades of work to free innocent people

condemned to death.

7 6 WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIDS SITTING TOGETHER IN THE CAFETERIA?, by Beverly^6

Daniel Tatum. (Basic) The president emerita

of Spelman College examines whether self-

segregation is a problem or a coping strategy.

8 7 THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, Wilkerson. (Vintage) An account of the Great by Isabel^29

Migration of 1915-70, in which six million

African-Americans abandoned the South.

9 8 BORN A CRIME, Grau) A memoir by the host of “The Daily by Trevor Noah. (Spiegel &^74

Show.”

10 9 THE NEW JIM CROW, (New Press) A law professor on the “war on by Michelle Alexander.^194

drugs” and its role in the disproportionate

incarceration of Black men.

11 10 THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, der Kolk. (Penguin) How trauma affects the by Bessel van^90

body and mind.

12 THE YELLOW HOUSE, (Grove) Identity and inequality are explored by Sarah M. Broom.^1

in the history of a family and home in New

Orleans both before and after Hurricane

Katrina.

13 BRAIDING SWEETGRASS, Kimmerer. (Milkweed Editions) A botanist by Robin Wall^16

and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation

espouses having an understanding and

appreciation of plants and animals.

14 13 SAPIENS, Perennial) How Homo sapiens became by Yuval Noah Harari. (Harper^110

Earth’s dominant species.

15 11 I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK, McNamara. (Harper Perennial) The late true-by Michelle^14

crime journalist’s search for “the Golden State

Killer.”

Paperback Trade Fiction WEEKTHIS Paperback Nonfiction ON LISTWEEKS

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