New York Times Bestseller List

Sales period of July 21-27

Fiction

1. One Good Deed, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central)  A World War II veteran on parole must find the real killer in a small town or face going back to jail.
2. When The Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam)  In a quiet town, a woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
3. The Nickle Boys, by Colson Whitehead. (Doubday)  Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crow-era reform school in ways that impact them decades later.
4. The New Girl, by Daniel Silva. (Harper)  Gabriel Allon, the chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.
5. Summer of "69", byElin Hilderbrand. (Little, Brown)  The Levin family undergoes some dramatic events.
6. Under Currents, by Nora Roberts. (St. Martin's)  Echoes of a violent childhood reverberate for Zane Bigelow.
7. Window On The Bay, by Debbie Macomber. (Ballantine)  A single mom's life takes unexpected turns when her two children go off to college.
8. City of Girls, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Riverhead)  An 89-year-old Vivian Morris looks back at the direction her life took when she entered the 1940s New York theater scene.
9. Ask Again, Yes, by Mary Beth Keane. (Scribner)  the lives of neighboring families in a New York City suburb intertwine over four decades.
10. The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides. (Celadon)  Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
11. Backlash, by Brad Thor. (Emily Bestler/Atria) Cut off from any support, Scot Harvath fights to get his revenge.
12. Lady In The Lake, by Laura Lippman. (Morrow)  In 1966, a housewife becomes a reporter and investigates the killing of a black woman in Baltimore.
13. Mrs. Everything, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria)  The story of two sisters and their life experiences as the world around them changes drastically from the 1950s.
14. The Chain, by Adrian McKinty. (Mulholland/Little, Brown)  Rachel Klein is ensnared in a pay-it-forward criminal enterprise involving ransoms and kidnapping.

Non-Fiction

1. Educated, by Tara Westover. (Random House)  the daughter of survivalists leaves home for university.
2. Becoming, by Michelle Obama. (Crown) The former first lady describes her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House, and how she balanced work, family and her husband's political ascent.
3. The Pioneers, by David McCullough. (Simon & Schuster)  The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory.
4. Range, by David Epstein. (Riverhead)  An argument for how generalists excel more than specialists.
5. Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, by Lori Gottlieg. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)  a psychotheraist become another therapist's patient.
6. The Moment of Lift, by Melinda Gates. (Flatiron)  the philanthropist shares stories of empowering women.
7. Crisis In The Red Zone, by Richard Preston. (Randon House)  An account of the 2013-14 Ebola epidemic and the potential of more severe outbreaks in the future.
   
8.  The Second Mountain, by David Brooks. (Random House)  A New York Times Op-Ed columnist espouses having an outward focus to attain a meaningful life.