New York Times Bestseller List

Sales period of September 22-28

Fiction

1. The Institute, by Stephen King. (Scribner)  Children with special talents are abducted and sequestered in an institution where the sinister staff seeks to extract their gifts through harsh methods.
2. The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)  In a sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale,"  old secrets bring three women together as the Republic of Gilead's theocratic regime shows signs of decay.
3. Vince Flynn:  Lethal Agent, by Kyle Mills. (Emily Bestler/Atria)  Mexican cartels, ISIS and a possible pandemic bring Mitch Rapp back into action.
   
4. When The Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam)  In a quiet town, a woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
   
5. Killer Instinct, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. (Little, Brown)  The second book in the Instinct series.  When an act of terror strikes New York, Dr. Reinhart and Detective Needham go after a sociopath.
6. The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott. (Knopf)  During the Cold War, members of the C.I.A.'s typing pool aid its mission to smuggle the banned book "Doctor Zhivago" behind the Iron Curtain.

Non-Fiction

1. Talking To Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown)  Famous examples of miscommunication serve as the backdrop to explain potential conflicts.
   
2. Educated, by Tara Westover. (Random House)  the daughter of survivalists leaves home for university.
3. The Only Plane In The Sky, by Garrett M. Graff. (Avid Reader)  An oral history of the events that ocureeed on Sept. 11, 2001.