THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 21PAPERBACK SALES PERIOD OF JULY 19-25
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(^2) THEN SHE WAS GONE, by Lisa Jewell. (Atria) 54
Ten years after her daughter disappears,
a woman tries to get her life in order but
remains haunted by unanswered questions.
2
(^1) LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, by Celeste 64
Ng. (Penguin) An artist upends a quiet town
outside Cleveland.
3
(^3) THE NICKEL BOYS, by Colson Whitehead. 4
(Anchor) Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim
Crow-era reform school in ways that impact
them decades later.
4
(^7) CAJUN JUSTICE, by James Patterson and 2
Tucker Axum. (Grand Central) Cain Lemaire,
an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans,
gets in the thick of things as the head of
security for a chief executive in Tokyo.
5
(^8) THIS TENDER LAND, by William Kent Krueger. 5
(Atria) Four orphans escape a Minnesota
school and encounter people struggling during
the Great Depression.
6
(^4) THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, by A. J. Finn. 66
(Morrow) A recluse who drinks heavily and
takes prescription drugs may have witnessed
a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.
7
(^5) THE NIGHTINGALE, by Kristin Hannah. (St. 49
Martin’s Griffin) Two sisters in World War
II France: one struggling to survive in the
countryside, the other joining the Resistance.
8
(^9) BEFORE WE WERE YOURS, by Lisa Wingate. 62
(Ballantine) A South Carolina lawyer learns
about the questionable practices of a
Tennessee orphanage.
9
(^6) LADY IN THE LAKE, by Laura Lippman. 3
(Morrow) In 1966, a housewife becomes a
reporter and investigates the killing of a Black
woman in Baltimore.
10
(^10) BEACH READ, by Emily Henry. (Berkley) A 9
relationship develops between a literary fiction
author and a romance novelist.
11
(^13) CIRCE, by Madeline Miller. (Back Bay) Zeus 14
banishes Helios’ daughter to an island.
12
(^12) ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony 75
Doerr. (Scribner) The lives of a blind French
girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy
before and during World War II.
13
(^15) THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, by Heather 98
Morris. (Harper) A concentration camp
detainee tasked with permanently marking
fellow prisoners falls in love with one of them.
14
(^11) THE GUARDIANS, by John Grisham. (Bantam) 6
Cullen Post, a lawyer and Episcopal minister,
antagonizes some ruthless killers when he
takes on a wrongful conviction case.
15
(^) NORMAL PEOPLE, by Sally Rooney. (Hogarth) 22
The connection between a high school star
athlete and a loner ebbs and flows when they
go to Trinity College in Dublin.
1
(^1) WHITE FRAGILITY, by Robin DiAngelo. 99
(Beacon) Historical and cultural analyses
on what causes defensive moves by white
people.
2
(^) ON TYRANNY, by Timothy Snyder. (Tim 66
Duggan) Twenty lessons from the 20th
century about the course of tyranny.
3
(^2) SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE, 10
by Ijeoma Oluo. (Seal) A look at the
contemporary racial landscape of the United
States.
4
(^) WALKING WITH THE WIND, by John Lewis 1
and Michael D’Orso. (Simon & Schuster) A
memoir by the recently deceased leader
in the American civil rights movement
and representative for Georgia’s Fifth
Congressional District.
5
(^7) STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING, by Ibram 10
X. Kendi. (Bold Type) A look at anti-Black
racist ideas and their effect on the course of
American history.
6 5 JUST MERCY, World) A civil rights lawyer’s memoir of his by Bryan Stevenson. (One^215
decades of work to free innocent people
condemned to death.
7
(^3) THE COLOR OF LAW, by Richard Rothstein. 13
(Liveright) A case for how the American
government abetted racial segregation in
metropolitan areas across the country.
8
(^4) ALEXANDER HAMILTON, by Ron Chernow. 112
(Penguin) A biography of the first Treasury
secretary.
9
(^6) THE NEW JIM CROW, by Michelle Alexander. 196
(New Press) A law professor on the “war on
drugs” and its role in the disproportionate
incarceration of Black men.
10
(^8) BORN A CRIME, by Trevor Noah. (One World) 76
A memoir by the host of “The Daily Show.”
11
(^11) THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van 92
der Kolk. (Penguin) How trauma affects the
body and mind.
12
(^10) WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIDS SITTING 8
TOGETHER IN THE CAFETERIA?, by Beverly
Daniel Tatum. (Basic) A look at whether self-
segregation is a problem or a coping strategy.
13
(^12) I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK, by Michelle 16
McNamara. (Harper Perennial) The late
journalist’s search for “the Golden State Killer.”
14
(^9) THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, by Isabel 31
Wilkerson. (Vintage) An account of the Great
Migration of 1915-70, in which six million
African-Americans abandoned the South.
15
(^14) BRAIDING SWEETGRASS, by Robin Wall 18
Kimmerer. (Milkweed Editions) A botanist
and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation
espouses having an understanding and
appreciation of plants and animals.
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