Best Sellers Print Hardcover September 19, 2021 THIS LAST WEEKS THIS LAST WEEKS WEEK WEEK Fiction ON LIST WEEK WEEK Nonfiction ON LIST A SLOW FIRE BURNING, by Paula Hawkins. (Riverhead) 1 1 AMERICAN MARXISM, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions) 8 1 1 Three women come under scrutiny when a young man is found The Fox News host gives his take on the Green New Deal, critical gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat. race theory and social activism. 2 BILLY SUMMERS, by Stephen King. (Scribner) A killer for hire 5 THE AFGHANISTAN PAPERS, by Craig Whitlock. (Simon & 1 2 2 who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one Schuster) An investigative reporter for The Washington Post gives final job. an account of how three successive presidents and their military commanders handled America’s invasion of Afghanistan after 1 THE MADNESS OF CROWDS, by Louise Penny. (Minotaur) The 2 9/11. 3 17th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. Gamache is tasked with providing security for a statistics professor whose 2 THE LONG SLIDE, by Tucker Carlson. (Threshold Editions) A 4 3 views are repulsive to him. collection of previously published essays from 1995 to 2016 by the Fox News host. 6 THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, by Matt Haig. (Viking) Nora Seed finds 40 4 a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with 9 GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew McConaughey. (Crown) The Academy 46 4 multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived. Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years. 7 THE NOISE, by James Patterson and J.D. Barker. (Little, Brown) A 3 5 strange vibration rises out of a forest near Mount Hood. 12 UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. (Dial) The activist and public 78 5 speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. 9 THE PAPER PALACE, by Miranda Cowley Heller. (Riverhead) After 9 6 an extramarital dalliance, Elle must choose between her husband 10 CASTE, by Isabel Wilkerson. (Random House) The Pulitzer Prize- 57 6 and her childhood love. winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today. 11 MALIBU RISING, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. (Ballantine) An epic 14 7 party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings. 5 WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah 19 7 Winfrey. (Flatiron) An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts 3 THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME, by Laura Dave. (Simon & 18 an essential question used to investigate it. 8 Schuster) Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous 11 CRYING IN H MART, by Michelle Zauner. (Knopf) The daughter 18 8 relationship. of a Korean mother and Jewish-American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own 8 COMPLICATIONS, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) On a September 3 identity after losing her mother to cancer. 9 night, guests at the reopening of an exclusive Paris hotel experience love, tragedy and political intrigue. 13 THINK AGAIN, by Adam Grant. (Viking) An examination of the 25 9 cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to 14 WE WERE NEVER HERE, by Andrea Bartz. (Ballantine) Will the 5 adapt to a rapidly changing world. 10 secrets Emily shares with Kristen about violent incidents in the past ruin her life? 4 THE RECKONING, by Mary L. Trump. (St. Martin’s) The author of 3 10 “Too Much and Never Enough” examines potential trauma caused 12 THE PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER, by Bill Clinton and James 13 by current and historical events. 11 Patterson. (Little, Brown) Matthew Keating, a past president and former Navy SEAL, goes on his own to find his abducted teenage 15 EDUCATED, by Tara Westover. (Random House) The daughter of 138 11 daughter. survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university. 4 THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DU BOIS, by Honorée Fanonne 2 12 Jeffers. (Harper) Ailey Pearl Garfield endeavors to embrace her 6 DOPAMINE NATION, by Anna Lembke. (Dutton) The medical 2 12 full heritage by digging into the stories of her ancestors who were director of Stanford Addiction Medicine explores the neuroscience Indigenous, Black and white. and behaviors that inform the relationship between pleasure and pain. 15 PROJECT HAIL MARY, by Andy Weir. (Ballantine) Ryland Grace 16 13 awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate ALL IN, by Billie Jean King with Johnette Howard and Maryanne 2 13 of humanity rests on his shoulders. Vollers. (Knopf) The former No. 1-ranked tennis player details her career and activism. 13 THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE, by V.E. Schwab. (Tor/ 42 14 Forge) A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the THE PREMONITION, by Michael Lewis. (Norton) Stories of 11 14 adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries. skeptics who went against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of Covid-19. The profiles include a 5 LIGHTNING STRIKE, by William Kent Krueger. (Atria) The 18th 2 local public-health officer and a group of doctors nicknamed the 15 book in the Cork O’Connor mystery series. The 12-year-old son of Wolverines. a small town sheriff who rules a man’s death as a suicide suspects another cause. 7 WOKE, INC., by Vivek Ramaswamy. (Center Street) The founder 3 15 and executive chairman of the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences shares his perspectives on American capitalism. (†) Copyright © 2021 by The New York Times Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 4, which are reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles published in the United States. 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 tens of thousands of 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 Editorial, 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. Best Sellers Combined Print & E-Book September 19, 2021 THIS LAST WEEKS THIS LAST WEEKS WEEK WEEK Fiction ON LIST WEEK WEEK Nonfiction ON LIST A SLOW FIRE BURNING, by Paula Hawkins. (Riverhead) 1 THE AFGHANISTAN PAPERS, by Craig Whitlock. (Simon & 1 1 1 Three women come under scrutiny when a young man is found Schuster) An investigative reporter for The Washington Post gives gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat. an account of how three successive presidents and their military commanders handled America’s invasion of Afghanistan after 3 IT ENDS WITH US, by Colleen Hoover. (Atria) A battered wife 12 9/11. 2 raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse. 1 AMERICAN MARXISM, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions) 8 2 2 BILLY SUMMERS, by Stephen King. (Scribner) A killer for hire 5 The Fox News host gives his take on the Green New Deal, critical 3 who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one race theory and social activism. final job. 2 THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van der Kolk. 54 3 1 THE MADNESS OF CROWDS, by Louise Penny. (Minotaur) The 2 (Penguin) How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative 4 17th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. Gamache is treatments for recovery. tasked with providing security for a statistics professor whose views are repulsive to him. 3 THE LONG SLIDE, by Tucker Carlson. (Threshold Editions) A 4 4 collection of previously published essays from 1995 to 2016 by 6 THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO, by Taylor Jenkins 10 the Fox News host. 5 Reid. (Washington Square) A movie icon recounts stories of her loves and career to a struggling magazine writer. THE SISTERS OF AUSCHWITZ, by Roxane van Iperen. (Harper) 1 5 Janny and Lien Brilleslijper from Amsterdam were sent by train to 4 THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME, by Laura Dave. (Simon & 18 Auschwitz when the Jewish safehouse they created in the woods 6 Schuster) Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing was discovered. husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship. 12 GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew McConaughey. (Crown) The Academy 46 6 Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over MALIBU RISING, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. (Ballantine) An epic 13 the last 35 years. 7 party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings. 15 UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. (Dial) The activist and public 78 7 8 PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION, by Emily Henry. (Berkley) 17 speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. 8 Opposites Poppy and Alex meet to vacation together one more time in hopes of saving their relationship. 8 CASTE, by Isabel Wilkerson.