| Place |
Weeks on List |
|
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A slave escapes via the Underground Railroad, imagined as a train running under America.
(Doubleday: $26.95)
Read The Times' book review.
|
2 |
| 2 |
J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany
This script from the West End play finds adult Harry Potter working at the Ministry of Magic.
(Pottermore: $29.99)
|
3 |
| 3 |
A teenager is drawn into a Manson-like cult during the late 60's.
(Random House: $27)
Read The Times' book review.
|
10 |
| 4 |
After a bomb attack in Paris, art restorer/spy Gabriel Allon must eliminate an ISIS operative before he strikes again.
(Harper: $27.99)
|
5 |
| 5 |
Three couples deal with the lingering aftermath of a backyard barbecue gone awry.
(Flatiron: $26.99)
|
3 |
| 6 |
A travel magazine journalist on a luxury cruise witnesses a passenger going overboard- or did she?
(Gallery Press: $26)
|
4 |
| 7 |
A blind French girl and a German teen struggle in occupied France during World War II.
(Scribner: $27)
Read The Times' book review.
|
118 |
| 8 |
Conspiracy theories arise when a private jet carrying several elite passengers crashes with only two survivors.
(Grand Central: $26)
|
11 |
| 9 |
While working at a famous New York restaurant, a young woman experiences a sensual awakening.
(Knopf: $25)
|
12 |
| 10 |
A French resistance leader and his motley team of fighters aid the French in Nazi-occupied Paris.
(Random House: $27)
|
9 |
| 11 |
The trials and triumphs of a 10-year-old boy with a facial deformity starting prep school for the first time.
(Knopf: $16.99)
|
124 |
| 12 |
James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
Detective Michael Bennett must save the President from a team of lethal assassins.
(Little, Brown: $28)
|
2 |
| 13 |
A brutal hit-and-run death rocks a community and family of a teenage gymnastics prodigy.
(Little, Brown: $26)
|
1 |
| 14 |
Banished to New York City, a powerless Apollo must learn to survive in the modern world as a teenage boy.
(Hyperion: $19.99)
|
9 |
| 15 |
Told from five alternating view points, a family struggles with their father's depression.
(Little, Brown: $26)
|
5 |
| 16 |
The damaging effect of the slave trade on a family split between the U.S. and the Gold Coast of Ghana across 200 years.
(Knopf: $26.95)
Read The Times' book review.
|
8 |
| 17 |
A former dentist goes on the lam with her children in the Alaskan wilderness.
(Knopf: $28.95)
Read The Times' book review.
|
3 |
| 18 |
Two sisters embark on dangerous paths in German-occupied France during WWII.
(St. Martin's: $27.99)
|
70 |
| 19 |
A modern day retelling of “Pride and Prejudice,” set in the Cincinnati suburbs.
(Random House: $28)
|
10 |
| 20 |
An ecological saga tracing one family's destruction of the world's forests over 300 years.
(Scribner: $32)
|
8 |
| Place |
Weeks on List |
|
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
An inside look at CAA and how the Hollywood agency transformed the entertainment industry.
(Custom House: $32.50)
|
1 |
| 2 |
The New Yorker Staff writer and CNN analyst tells the story of the kidnapping, radicalization and public trial of Patty Hearst in the 1970's.
(Doubleday: $28.95)
Read The Times' book review.
|
2 |
| 3 |
A posthumously published memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer.
(Random House: $25)
|
30 |
| 4 |
The cleaning guru's method to decluttering your home and simplifying your life.
(Ten Speed Press: $16.99)
|
88 |
| 5 | 57 | |
| 6 |
A former Secret Service officer reveals his observations inside the Clinton White House.
(Center Street: $27)
|
7 |
| 7 |
Imagining how the contemporary world will be perceived as the distant past.
(Blue Rider Press: $26)
|
8 |
| 8 | 7 | |
| 9 |
What tribal societies can teach us about loyalty, belonging, and why humans are stronger when we come together.
(Twelve: $22)
|
8 |
| 10 | 23 | |
| 11 |
A bio of the Founding Father and first U.S. Treasury Secretary.
(Penguin: $20)
|
8 |
| 13 |
A former tomboy and comic eschews modern femininity.
(Grand Central: $26)
|
4 |
| 14 |
The author of "Eat Pray Love," shares her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity.
(Riverhead: $24.95)
|
27 |
| 15 |
Essays on coming to terms with his own death by the noted physician who died in 2015.
(Knopf: $17)
|
33 |
| 16 | 10 | |
| 17 |
The West Coast punk rock scene of the late 70s to early 80s, told by those who were there.
(Da Capo Press: $26.99)
|
7 |
| 18 |
A geobiologist shares her fascination with plants and how she became an acclaimed scientist.
(Knopf: $26.95)
|
7 |
| 19 |
An unlikely couple's determination to transform an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise packed with movie stars.
(Norton: $26.95)
|
8 |
| 20 |
Funny, candid essays from the Emmy Award-winning comedian and writer.
(Gallery Press: $28)
|
1 |