New York Times Bestseller List

Sales period of July 1 - 7

Fiction

1. The Women, by Kristen Hannah. (St. Martin's) In 1965, a nursing student follows her brother to serve during the Vietnam War and returns to a divided America.
2. Swan Song, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Little, Brown) Nantucket residents are alarmed when a home, recently sold at an exorbitant price, goes up in flames and someone goes missing.
3. The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore. (Riverhead) When a 13-year-old girl disappears from an Adirondack summer camp in 1975, secrets kept by the Van Laar family emerge.
4. Eruption, by Michael Crichton and James Patterson. (Little, Brown) The Big Island of Hawaii comes under threat by a volcano at the same time a secret held by the military comes to light.
5. Camino Ghosts, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) The third book in the Camino series. The last living inhabitant of a deserted island gets in the way of a resort developer.
6. Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros. (Red Tower) Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.
7. Funny Story, by Emily Henry. (Berkley) After their exes run off together, Daphne and Miles form a friendship and concoct a plan involving misleading photos.
8. You Like it Darker, by Stephen King. (Scribner) A dozen short stories that explore darkness in literal and metaphorical forms.
9. All The Colors of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker. (Crown) Questions arise when a boy saves the daughter of a wealthy family amid a string of disappearances in a Missouri town in 1975.
10. Iron Flame, by Rebecca Yarros. (Red Tower) The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training might require her to betray the man she loves.
    

Nonfiction

1. The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt. (Penguin Press) A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health impacts that a phone-based life has on children.
2. The Demon of Unrest, by Erik Larson. (Crown) The author of “The Splendid and the Vile” portrays the months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of the Civil War.
3. The Wager, by David Grann. (Doubleday) The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events.

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