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THIS LAST WEEKS THIS LAST WEEKS WEEK WEEK Fiction ON LIST WEEK WEEK Nonfiction ON LIST 1 A COLUMN OF FIRE, by Ken Follett. (Viking) The lovers Ned 1 1 WHAT HAPPENED, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & 1 Willard and Margery Fitzgerald find themselves on opposite sides Schuster) The first woman nominated for president by a major of a conflict between English Catholics and Protestants while political party details her campaign, mistakes she made, outside Queen Elizabeth fights to maintain her throne. forces that affected the outcome and how she recovered in its aftermath. 2 THE GIRL WHO TAKES AN EYE FOR AN EYE, by David 1 Lagercrantz. (Knopf) Lisbeth Salander teams up with an 2 UNBELIEVABLE, by Katy Tur. (Dey St.) The NBC News 1 investigative journalist to uncover the secrets of her childhood. A correspondent describes her work covering the 2016 campaign continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series. of the Republican nominee for president and his behavior toward her. 3 3 ENEMY OF THE STATE, by Kyle Mills. (Atria/Emily Bestler) Vince 2 Flynn’s character Mitch Rapp leaves the C.I.A. to go on a manhunt 3 1 ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY, by Neil deGrasse 20 when the nephew of a Saudi King finances a terrorist group. Tyson. (Norton) A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the universe. 4 THE ROMANOV RANSOM, by Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell. 1 (Putnam) Sam and Remi Fargo search for two missing filmmakers 4 2 HILLBILLY ELEGY, by J. D. Vance. (HarperCollins) A Yale Law 60 in North Africa and uncover a group seeking to create the Fourth School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working Reich. class through his own childhood. 5 1 A LEGACY OF SPIES, by John le Carré. (Viking) Peter Guillam, 2 5 4 AL FRANKEN, GIANT OF THE SENATE, by Al Franken. (Twelve) 16 formerly of the British Secret Service, is pulled out of retirement A memoir by the Democratic senator from Minnesota and former to defend intelligence operations during the cold war that resulted “Saturday Night Live” writer. in the deaths of people close to him. 6 3 FANTASYLAND, by Kurt Andersen. (Random House) The politics 2 6 2 SECRETS IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. (St. Martin’s) Lt. Eve Dallas 2 and culture of 21st-century America are put in the context of five investigates the murder of a professional gossip who dabbled in centuries of historical events and movements, including elements blackmail; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously. of conspiracy theories, crackpot ideas and hucksterism. 7 LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press) 1 7 UNSTOPPABLE, by Maria Sharapova with Rich Cohen. (Farrar, 1 An artist with a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo Straus & Giroux) A memoir by the Russian-American Grand Slam upends a quiet town outside Cleveland. tennis champion and Olympic medalist. (†) 8 ENIGMA, by Catherine Coulter. (Gallery Books) F.B.I. agents 1 8 5 WHY BUDDHISM IS TRUE, by Robert Wright. (Simon & 6 Savich and Sherlock team up with Cam Wittier and Jack Cabot to Schuster) Neuroscience and psychology findings are used to capture an international criminal and solve a John Doe case. support Buddhist practice and meditation. 9 4 Y IS FOR YESTERDAY, by Sue Grafton. (Marian Wood/Putnam) 4 9 7 OPTION B, by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant. (Knopf) Insight 21 The 25th Kinsey Millhone mystery novel. A former student from on facing adversity and building resilience. an elite private school is released from prison and a sociopath returns to haunt the detective. 10 6 BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. (Spiegel 80 & Grau) A meditation on race in America. 10 8 CAMINO ISLAND, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) A search for 15 stolen rare manuscripts leads to a Florida island. 11* 11 THE BOOK OF JOY, by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu with 36 Douglas Abrams. (Avery) Two spiritual leaders discuss how to find 11 6 THE RIGHT TIME, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) The author 3 joy in the face of suffering. Alexandra Winslow, writing under the pseudonym Alexander Green, creates a double life that isolates her. 12 10 KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, by David Grann. (Doubleday) 22 The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted 12 5 GLASS HOUSES, by Louise Penny. (Minotaur) When a body is 3 Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. discovered in Three Pines, Chief Superintendent Gamache regrets not acting on a hunch. 13 8 THE VIETNAM WAR, by Geoffrey C. Ward. (Knopf) A companion 2 to the PBS series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that looks at the 13* 14 BEFORE WE WERE YOURS, by Lisa Wingate. (Ballantine) A 9 events and the legacy of the war. South Carolina lawyer, researching her grandmother’s past, learns about a Tennessee orphanage that kidnapped children and placed 14 BORN A CRIME, by Trevor Noah. (Spiegel & Grau) A memoir 26 them for adoption with wealthy people. about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the comedian, now the host of “The Daily Show.” 14 A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, by Amor Towles. (Viking) A Russian 42 count undergoes 30 years of house arrest. 15 GRIT, by Angela Duckworth. (Scribner) A psychologist says 26 passion and perseverance are the keys to success. 15 13 MY ABSOLUTE DARLING, by Gabriel Tallent. (Riverhead) A 3 remarkably self-sufficient 14-year-old girl must fight to save herself from her abusive survivalist father.

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 16, which are reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally nationwide. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Copyright © 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW October 1, 2017 by The New York Times Combined Print & E-Book Best Sellers

WEEKS THIS LAST WEEKS THIS LAST ON LIST WEEK WEEK Fiction ON LIST WEEK WEEK Nonfiction 1 A COLUMN OF FIRE, by Ken Follett. (Viking) The lovers Ned 1 1 WHAT HAPPENED, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & 1 Willard and Margery Fitzgerald find themselves on opposite sides Schuster) The first woman nominated for president by a major of a conflict between English Catholics and Protestants while political party details her campaign, mistakes she made, outside Queen Elizabeth fights to maintain her throne. forces that affected the outcome and how she recovered in its aftermath. 2 4 IT, by Stephen King. (Scribner) The collective clown phobias of 6 seven teenagers are rekindled in their adult lives by the terrifying 2 UNBELIEVABLE, by Katy Tur. (Dey St.) The NBC News 1 title character. Originally published in 1986. correspondent describes her work covering the 2016 campaign of the Republican nominee for president and his behavior toward 3 THE GIRL WHO TAKES AN EYE FOR AN EYE, by David 1 her. Lagercrantz. (Knopf) Lisbeth Salander teams up with an investigative journalist to uncover the secrets of her childhood. A 3 1 THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner) The author 56 continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series. recalls a bizarre childhood. Originally published in 2005 and the basis of the movie. 4 ENIGMA, by Catherine Coulter. (Gallery Books) Agents Savich and 1 Sherlock team up with Cam Wittier and Jack Cabot to capture an 4 2 ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY, by Neil deGrasse 20 international criminal and solve a John Doe case. Tyson. (Norton) A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the laws that govern the universe. 5 THE ROMANOV RANSOM, by Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell. 1 (Putnam) Sam and Remi Fargo search for two missing filmmakers in 5 3 HILLBILLY ELEGY, by J.D. Vance. (HarperCollins) A Yale Law 60 North Africa and uncover a group seeking to create the Fourth Reich. School graduate looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood. 6 2 ENEMY OF THE STATE, by Kyle Mills. (Atria/Emily Bestler) Vince 2 Flynn’s character Mitch Rapp leaves the C.I.A. to go on a manhunt 6 4 FANTASYLAND, by Kurt Andersen. (Random House) The politics 2 when the nephew of a Saudi King finances a terrorist group. and culture of 21st-century America are put in the context of five centuries of historical events and movements, including elements 7 1 SECRETS IN DEATH, by J.D. Robb. (St. Martin’s) Lt. Eve Dallas 2 of conspiracy theories, crackpot ideas and hucksterism. investigates the murder of a professional gossip who dabbled in blackmail; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously. 7 6 AL FRANKEN, GIANT OF THE SENATE, by Al Franken. (Twelve) 16 A memoir by the Democratic senator from Minnesota and former 8 LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press) 1 “Saturday Night Live” writer. An artist with a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo upends a quiet town outside Cleveland. 8 ON TYRANNY, by Timothy Snyder. (Tim Duggan) Twenty lessons 13 from the 20th century about the course of tyranny. 9 9 BEFORE WE WERE YOURS, by Lisa Wingate. (Ballantine) A South 7 Carolina lawyer, researching her grandmother’s past, learns about 9 5 BEING MORTAL, by Atul Gawande. (Metropolitan/Holt) The 65 a Tennessee orphanage that kidnapped children and placed them surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients for adoption with wealthy people. Based on a real-life scandal. at the end of life, and how they can do better. 10 3 A LEGACY OF SPIES, by John le Carré. (Viking) Peter Guillam, 2 10 UNSTOPPABLE, by Maria Sharapova with Rich Cohen. (Farrar, 1 formerly of the British Secret Service, is pulled out of retirement Straus & Giroux) A memoir by the Russian-American Grand Slam to defend intelligence operations during the cold war that resulted tennis champion and Olympic medalist. in the deaths of people close to him. 11 7 WHY BUDDHISM IS TRUE, by Robert Wright. (Simon & 6 11 6 Y IS FOR YESTERDAY, by Sue Grafton. (Marian Wood/Putnam) 4 Schuster) The latest research in neuroscience and psychology The 25th Kinsey Millhone mystery novel. A former student from is used to support the assertion that Buddhist meditation and an elite private school is released from prison and a sociopath practice can lead to a deeper understanding of the world. returns to haunt the detective. 12 8 KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, by David Grann. (Doubleday) 22 12 15 TURBO TWENTY-THREE, by Janet Evanovich. (Bantam) The 8 The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted bounty hunter Stephanie Plum juggles the investigation of a crime Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. in an ice cream factory and the two men in her life. 13 11 SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (Harper) How Homo sapiens 16 13 11 THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10, by Ruth Ware. (Scout) A travel writer 34 became Earth’s dominant species. on a cruise is certain she has heard a body thrown overboard, but no one believes her. 14 15 THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD, by Douglas Preston. 9 (Grand Central) A frightening search for a lost civilization in the 14 THE HANGMAN’S SONNET, by Reed Farrel Coleman. (Putnam) 1 Honduran rain forest. Robert B. Parker’s character; the police chief Jesse Stone enlists the help of a mobster and a private investigator to solve cases 15 BORN A CRIME, by Trevor Noah. (Spiegel & Grau) A memoir 27 connected to a once-famous folk singer. about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the comedian, now the host of “The Daily Show.” 15 AMERICAN ASSASSIN, by Vince Flynn. (Atria/Emily Bestler) In 1 the wake of the Lockerbie bombing, Mitch Rapp takes on his first antiterrorist assignment for the C.I.A.

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 16, which are reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally nationwide. E-book rankings reflect sales from leading online vendors of e-books in a variety of popular e-reader formats. Titles are included regardless of whether they are published in both print and electronic formats or just one format. Publisher credits for e-books are listed under the corporate publishing name instead of by publisher’s division. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Copyright © 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW October 1, 2017 by The New York Times Print Paperback Best Sellers

THIS WEEKS THIS WEEKS WEEK Paperback Trade Fiction ON LIST WEEK Paperback Nonfiction ON LIST 1 IT, by Stephen King. (Scribner) 5 1 THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner) (†) 391

2 MILK AND HONEY, by Rupi Kaur. (Andrews McMeel) 75 2 BEING MORTAL, by Atul Gawande. (Picador) 2

3 THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10, by Ruth Ware. (Scout) 23 3 THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD, by Douglas Preston. 2 (Grand Central) 4 THE FIX, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) 1 4* ON TYRANNY, by Timothy Snyder. (Tim Duggan) 29

5 LILAC GIRLS, by Martha Hall Kelly. (Ballantine) 29 5 JUST MERCY, by Bryan Stevenson. (Spiegel & Grau) 78

6 THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, by Shari Lapena. (Penguin) 16 6 THE NEW JIM CROW, by Michelle Alexander. (New Press) 155

7 THE HANDMAID’S TALE, by Margaret Atwood. (Anchor) 32 7 ROGUE HEROES, by Ben Macintyre. (Broadway) 1

8 READY PLAYER ONE, by Ernest Cline. (Broadway) 31 8 BORN TO RUN, by Bruce Springsteen. (Simon & Schuster) 1

9 TWO BY TWO, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) 6 9 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, 138 Straus & Giroux) 10 ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr. (Scribner) 24 10 EVICTED, by Matthew Desmond. (Broadway) 13

THIS WEEKS THIS WEEKS WEEK Middle Grade Hardcover ON LIST WEEK Young Adult Hardcover ON LIST

1 WONDER, by R. J. Palacio. (Knopf) A boy with a facial deformity 110 1 THE HATE U GIVE, by Angie Thomas. (Balzer & Bray) A 16-year- 29 starts school. (Ages 8 to 12) old girl sees a police officer kill her friend. (Ages 14 and up) 2 GOOD NIGHT STORIES FOR REBEL GIRLS, by Elena Favilli and 12 2 WARCROSS, by Marie Lu. (Putnam) When a New York bounty 1 Francesca Cavallo. (Timbuktu Labs) Fairy tale versions of the lives hunter’s identity is exposed in a game’s glitch, she’s hired to track of 100 influential women. (Ages 7 and up) down a hacker in Tokyo. (Ages 12 to 17) 3 MINECRAFT: THE ISLAND, by Max Brooks. (Del Rey) A lone 9 3 BERNIE SANDERS GUIDE TO POLITICAL REVOLUTION, by 3 castaway faces dangers in a strange new world. (Ages 8 to 12) Bernie Sanders. Illustrated by Jude Buffum. (Godwin/Holt) The Vermont senator and former presidential candidate continues the 4 THE DARK PROPHECY, by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion) 20 fight for his agenda for political and social change. (Ages 12 to Lester, a.k.a. Apollo, summons the help of demigods to restore an 18) Oracle. (Ages 9 to 12) 4 WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER, by Leigh Bardugo. (Random 3 5 LAUGH OUT LOUD, by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. 3 House) Diana, Princess of the Amazons, saves a descendant of Illustrated by Jeff Ebbeler. (Jimmy Patterson) Jimmy dreams of Helen of Troy and together they fight to save both of their worlds. starting a book company that is for kids and run by kids. (Ages 8 (Ages 12 to 17) to 12) 5 LORD OF SHADOWS, by Cassandra Clare. (Margaret K. 17 6 REFUGEE, by Alan Gratz. (Scholastic) Three children in three 4 McElderry) Caught between the faerie courts and the laws of the different conflicts look for safe haven. (Ages 9 to 12) Clave. (Ages 14 to 17) 7 AUGGIE & ME, by R. J. Palacio. (Knopf) A collection of three 42 6 THE DREADFUL TALE OF PROSPER REDDING, by Alexandra 1 stories from the “Wonder” series. (Ages 8 to 12) Bracken. (Disney-Hyperion) Prosper’s body is possessed by a demon that grows stronger each night. (Ages 8 to 12) 8 THE WILD ROBOT, by Peter Brown. (Little, Brown) A semi- 12 sentient automaton washes ashore, a shipwreck’s sole survivor. 7 ONE OF US IS LYING, by Karen M. McManus. (Delacorte) For five 13 (Ages 8 to 11) students, a detour into detention ends in murder. (Ages 14 to 18) 9 WOMEN IN SCIENCE, by Rachel Ignotofsky. (Ten Speed) Fifty 39 8 THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END, by Adam Silvera. (HarperTeen) 2 women who have transformed science and technology. (Ages 8 Through an app, two young people meet up on the last day of to 12) their lives. (Ages 14 to 17) 10 POTTYMOUTH AND STOOPID, by James Patterson and Chris 14 9 ONCE AND FOR ALL, by Sarah Dessen. (Viking) Can the harder- 15 Grabenstein. Illustrated by Stephen Gilpin. (Jimmy Patterson) Two hearted Louna reform the more romantically casual Ambrose? middle schoolers try to thwart bullies with humor. (Ages 8 to 12) (Ages 12 to 16) 10 I HATE EVERYONE BUT YOU, by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin. 1 (Wednesday Books) A tale of two best friends documented through texts and emails. (Ages 14 to 17)

THIS WEEKS THIS WEEKS WEEK Picture Books ON LIST WEEK Series ON LIST

1 PRINCESSES WEAR PANTS, by Savannah Guthrie and Allison 1 1 DOG MAN, by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) A dog’s head is combined 3 Oppenheim. Illustrated by Eva Byrne. (Abrams) Princess Penelope with a policeman’s body to create this hybrid supercop hound. Pineapple prefers pants over dresses. (Ages 3 to 7) (Ages 7 to 9) 2 IT TAKES A VILLAGE, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Illustrated by 1 2 MICHAEL VEY, by Richard Paul Evans. (Simon & Schuster) 10 Marla Frazee. (Simon & Schuster) Children bringing about change Michael and his friends must disrupt the Elgen’s plans to rule the in the world. (Ages 4 to 8) world. (Ages 12 to 17) 3 SHE PERSISTED, by Chelsea Clinton. Illustrated by Alexandra 16 3 HARRY POTTER, by J. K. Rowling. (Scholastic) A wizard hones his 443 Boiger. (Philomel) Bringing to life 13 American women who conjuring skills in the service of fighting evil. (Ages 10 and up) changed the world. (Ages 4 to 8) 4 THRONE OF GLASS, by Sarah J. Maas. (Bloomsbury) Celaena 17 4 DRAGONS LOVE TACOS, by Adam Rubin. Illustrated by Daniel 187 must battle evil forces threatening her realm. (Ages 14 and up) Salmieri. (Dial) What to serve your dragon-guests. (Ages 3 to 5) 5 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. 444 5 ROSIE REVERE, ENGINEER, by Andrea Beaty. Illustrated by 113 (Amulet) The travails and challenges of adolescence. (Ages 9 to David Roberts. (Abrams) A young inventor learns to fail better. 12) (Ages 4 to 8) 6 CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS, written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey. 84 6 THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT, by Drew Daywalt. Illustrated by 220 (Scholastic) Boys and their principal fight evil. (Ages 7 to 10) Oliver Jeffers. (Philomel) Problems arise when Duncan’s crayons revolt. (Ages 3 to 7) 7 PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS, by Rick Riordan. (Disney- 446 Hyperion) A boy battles mythological monsters. (Ages 9 to 12) 7 A CREEPY PAIR OF UNDERWEAR, by Aaron Reynolds. 3 Illustrated by Peter Brown. (Simon & Schuster) Jasper Rabbit 8 DESCENDANTS, by Melissa de la Cruz. (Disney-Hyperion) A 17 deals with a pair of glowing underwear that won’t go away. (Ages three-pronged prize pits teams against each other. (Ages 8 to 12) 4 to 8) 9 GIVER QUARTET, by Lois Lowry. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 151 8 THE WONDERFUL THINGS YOU WILL BE, by Emily Winfield 103 Exploring human connection in a post-apocalyptic world. (Ages Martin. (Random House) A celebration of future possibilities. 12 to 18) (Ages 3 to 7) 10 LAND OF STORIES, by Chris Colfer. Illustrated by Brandon 42 9 WE’RE ALL WONDERS, by R. J. Palacio. (Knopf) The protagonist 13 Dorman. (Little, Brown) Fairy tales and classic stories collide. from the novel “Wonder” stars in his own picture book. (Ages 4 (Ages 8 to 12) to 8) 10 THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES, by B. J. Novak. (Dial) Silly 134 songs and sound effects. (Ages 4 to 8)

Picture Book rankings include hardcover sales only. Series rankings include all print and e-book sales. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally nationwide. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Copyright © 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW October 1, 2017 by The New York Times Advice, How-To and Misc. and Monthly Best Sellers

THIS WEEKS THIS Business WEEK Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous ON LIST WEEK

1 BRAVING THE WILDERNESS, by Brené Brown. (Random House) 1 1 GRIT, by Angela Duckworth. (Scribner)

2 THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A ------, by Mark Manson. 40 2 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown) (HarperOne/HarperCollins) (†) 3 THE FOUR TENDENCIES, by Gretchen Rubin. (Harmony) 1 3 RED NOTICE, by Bill Browder. (Simon & Schuster)

4 YOU ARE A BADASS, by Jen Sincero. (Running Press) 88 4 EMIGRANT EDGE, by Brian Buffini. (Howard Books) (†)

THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (Northfield) 218 5 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, 5 Straus & Giroux) 6 MAKE YOUR BED, by William H. McRaven. (Grand Central) 24 6 THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House)

7 TOOLS OF TITANS, by Tim Ferriss. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 20 7 INVISIBLE INFLUENCE, by Jonah Berger. (Simon & Schuster) (†) 8 THE END OF ALZHEIMER’S, by Dale Bredesen. (Avery) 4 8 GET YOUR ------TOGETHER, by Sarah Knight. (Little, Brown)

9 ------, THAT’S DELICIOUS, by Action Bronson with Rachel 1 9 TOOLS OF TITANS, by Tim Ferriss. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Wharton. (Abrams) (†) (†)

10 THE WHOLE30, by Melissa Hartwig. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 101 (†) 10 LIFE 3.0, by Max Tegmark. (Knopf)

The category Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous Best Sellers includes both print and e-book sales. The titles ranked in these monthly Best-Seller Lists are selected by the Best-Seller List editors from among all adult nonfiction print and e-book titles reported to The New York Times during August. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally nationwide. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles. An asterisk (*) indicates that a title’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the title ranked above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Copyright © 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW October 1, 2017 by The New York Times Monthly Best Sellers

THIS THIS WEEK Science WEEK Sports and Fitness 1 ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY, by Neil deGrasse 1 WHAT MADE MADDY RUN, by Kate Fagan. (Little, Brown) Tyson. (Norton) 2 SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (Harper) 2 THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. (Penguin)

3 END OF ALZHEIMER’S, by Dale Bredesen. (Avery) 3 FINDING GOBI, by Dion Leonard with with Craig Borlase. (Thomas Nelson) 4 THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca 4 BARBARIAN DAYS, by William Finnegan. (Penguin) Skloot. (Broadway) 5 WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR, by Paul Kalanithi. (Random 5 SHOE DOG, by Phil Knight. (Scribner) House) 6 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, 6 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House) Straus & Giroux) 7 HIDDEN FIGURES, by Margot Lee Shetterly. (Morrow) 7 PLAYING HURT, by John Saunders with John U. Bacon. (Da Capo)

8 THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House) 8 COACH WOODEN AND ME, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. (Grand Central) 9 QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Broadway) 9 PAPI, by David Ortiz with Michael Holley. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 10 ON TRAILS, by Robert Moor. (Simon & Schuster) 10 SHAKEN, by Tim Tebow. (Waterbrook)

The category Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous Best Sellers includes both print and e-book sales. The titles ranked in these monthly Best-Seller Lists are selected by the Best-Seller List editors from among all adult nonfiction print and e-book titles reported to The New York Times during August. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally nationwide. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles. An asterisk (*) indicates that a title’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the title ranked above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Copyright © 2017 October 1, 2017 by The New York Times THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Editors’ Choice / Staff Picks From the Book Review

THE EVOLUTION OF BEAUTY: How Darwin’s $26.) In her follow-up to the National Book RESET: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change, Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Award-winning novel “Salvage the Bones,” by Ellen K. Pao. (Spiegel & Grau, $28.) Combining Animal World — and Us, by Richard O. Prum. Ward tells the story of a Mississippi woman memoir, self-help, tell-all and manifesto, Pao (Doubleday, $30.) A mild-mannered ornitholo- intent on making her fractured family whole recalls the disillusionment that led her to gist makes an impassioned case for the again. sue a venture capital firm for gender importance of Darwin’s second theory as his discrimination. She lost, but showed the most radical and feminist. THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS: The United hurdles women still face in many fields. States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, COMING TO MY SENSES: The Making of a 1865-1898, by Richard White. (Oxford, $35.) This THE MISFORTUNE OF MARION PALM, by Emily Counterculture Cook, by Alice Waters with Cristina sweeping history of the decades after the Culliton. (Knopf, $25.95.) In Culliton’s delightful Mueller and Bob Carrau. (Clarkson Potter, $27.) The Civil War decries the spoliations White sees and sneakily feminist debut novel, a founder of Chez Panisse describes her early everywhere among Robber Barons and Brooklyn mother is on the lam after days, explaining how a visit to France corrupt politicians. embezzling thousands of dollars from her awakened her interest in excellent food and daughters’ private school. how she came to embrace the use of organic THE INTERNATIONALISTS: How a Radical Plan to ingredients. Outlaw War Remade the World, by Oona A. Hathaway BONES: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the and Scott J. Shapiro. (Simon & Schuster, $30.) The Borderland Dream, by Joe Tone. (One World, $28.) A FASTING AND FEASTING: The Life of Visionary Food two authors argue for the historic impor- reporter brilliantly recounts the tale of a Writer Patience Gray, by Adam Federman. (Chelsea tance of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, an Texas bricklayer who laundered drug Green, $25.) Federman’s biography is the first international agreement usually dismissed money for his brother, a cartel boss in of a cult food writer who became famous by historians as ineffectual and quixotic. In Mexico, via the horse-racing industry with the 1986 publication of her influential their revisionist view, the pact “reshaped book “Honey From a Weed.” the world map” and “catalyzed the human The full reviews of these and other recent books are on rights revolution.” the web: nytimes.com/books. SING, UNBURIED, SING, by Jesmyn Ward. (Scribner,

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THE SIGNAL FLAME, by Andrew Krivak. (Scribner, Brown, $15.99.) Lib Wright, a nurse trained by THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP, by Joanna $16.) Generations of war link families in Florence Nightingale, arrives in rural Cannon. (Scribner, $16.) When an elderly woman northeastern Pennsylvania. In 1972, the Ireland to observe a young girl hailed by in the neighborhood goes missing in 1976 Vinichs are mourning their patriarch, Jozef, locals as saint: The child has eaten nothing Britain, two 10-year-olds, Grace and Tilly, go a Hungarian immigrant who fled World War in four months but manages, improbably, to on the hunt, determined to bring her home. I; his grandson, Sam, has been declared survive. As our reviewer, Stephen King, Cannon’s “intense specificity captures a missing in action in Vietnam. “Krivak is an wrote, the novel offers a “grave consider- world in amber, permitting intimate access extraordinarily elegant writer,” our review- ation of the damage religion can do when it to the pantries, gardens and garages of er, Roxana Robinson, wrote, who “reminds crosses the line into superstition.” Britain’s past,” our reviewer, Samantha us that we are powerless over this presence Hunt, wrote here. in our lives.” FROM THE WAR ON POVERTY TO THE WAR ON CRIME: The Making of Mass Incarceration in THE GENIUS OF JUDAISM, by Bernard-Henri Lévy. THE LONELY CITY: Adventures in the Art of Being America, by Elizabeth Hinton. (Harvard University Press, Translated by Steven B. Kennedy. (Random House, $17.) Alone, by Olivia Laing. (Picador, $18.) After the $18.95.) With two million Americans in jail, In this wide-ranging treatise, Lévy battles romantic relationship that lured her to New how did the United States develop one of the contradictory impulses between his York City fell apart,Laing found herself largest prison systems in the world? religious beliefs and personal predilections; alienated and nursing the peculiar pangs of Hinton, an urban historian at Harvard, as a Zionist born to an Algerian Jewish isolation. She pairs her account with an traces the origins of mass incarceration to family, he reconciles his faith with digres- examination of the works of four artists of social programs advanced by President sions on racial relations, Talmudic teachings the lonely: Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Lyndon B. Johnson, as well as other and the role of orthodoxy. Henry Darger and David Wojnarowicz. administrations’ punitive policies aimed at young African-Americans. Joumana Khatib THE WONDER, by Emma Donoghue. (Back Bay/Little,