| Fiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a court of silver flames | Sarah J. Maas | The fifth book in A Court of Thorn and Roses series. Nesta Archeron is forced into close quarters with a warrior named Cassian. |
| 2 | the four winds | Kristin Hannah | As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West. |
| 3 | the midnight library | Matt Haig | Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived. |
| 4 | the vanishing half | Brit Bennett | The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine. |
| 5 | the sanatorium | Sarah Pearse | Elin Warner must find her estranged brother’s fiancée, who goes missing as a storm approaches a hotel that was once a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. |
| 6 | the invisible life of addie larue | V.E. Schwab | A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries. |
| 7 | where the crawdads sing | Delia Owens | In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect. |
| 8 | the russian | James Patterson and James O. Born | The 13th book in the Michael Bennett series. An assassin killing a number of women might disrupt the detective’s wedding plans. |
| 9 | faithless in death | J.D. Robb | The 52nd book of the In Death series. Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a young sculptor in the West Village. |
| 10 | missing and endangered | J.A. Jance | The 19th book in the Joanna Brady Mysteries series. The Cochise County Sheriff's daughter becomes involved in a missing persons case. |
| 11 | relentless | Mark Greaney | The 10th book in the Gray Man series. Assassins go after Court Gentry as he attempts to bring back an American agent who went missing. |
| 12 | anxious people | Fredrik Backman | A failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at an apartment open house. |
| 13 | the paris library | Janet Skeslien Charles | A teenager in Montana discovers that her elderly neighbor worked decades earlier at the American Library in Paris and was part of the Resistance. |
| 14 | the return | Nicholas Sparks | A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life. |
| 15 | a time for mercy | John Grisham | The third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990. |
| Nonfiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | how to avoid a climate disaster | Bill Gates | A prescription for what business, governments and individuals can do to work toward zero emissions. |
| 2 | just as i am | Cicely Tyson with Michelle Burford | The late iconic actress describes how she worked to change perceptions of Black women through her career choices. |
| 3 | the sum of us | Heather McGhee | The chair of the board of the racial justice organization Color of Change analyzes the impact of racism on the economy. |
| 4 | walk in my combat boots | James Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Chris Mooney | A collection of interviews with troops who fought overseas. |
| 5 | a promised land | Barack Obama | In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama offers personal reflections on his formative years and pivotal moments through his first term. |
| 6 | caste | Isabel Wilkerson | The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today. |
| 7 | greenlights | Matthew McConaughey | The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years. |
| 8 | between two kingdoms | Suleika Jaouad | The writer of the New York Times column “Life, Interrupted” chronicles her fight with cancer and an impactful road trip. |
| 9 | untamed | Glennon Doyle | The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. |
| 10 | four hundred souls | edited Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain | A compendium featuring 90 writers covering 400 years of African-American history. |
| 11 | think again | Adam Grant | An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world. |
| 12 | unmasked | Andy Ngo | A former writer for the online magazine Quillette gives his perspective on the activist movement antifa. |
| 13 | the black church | Henry Louis Gates, Jr | The companion book to the PBS series that provides a look at five centuries of the meaning and functions of the Black church in America. |
| 14 | the daughters of kobani | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon | In 2014, a group of all-female Kurdish militia faced off against ISIS in a small town in Syria. |
| 15 | becoming | Michelle Obama | The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent. |