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BEST-SELLERS: PAPERBACK BOOKS
Posted July 8, 2018 12:59 a.m. EDT
By , New York Times
Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, June 30, which were 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. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales were barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) indicates that some bookstores reported 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 Co. More information on rankings and methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology.
1. KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, by Anthony Bourdain. (Ecco)
A memoir-exposé of the restaurant world. Originally published in 2000.
THIS WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 39
2. SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (Harper Perennial)
How Homo sapiens became Earth's dominant species.
WEEKS ON LIST: 7
3. THINGS THAT MATTER, by Charles Krauthammer. (Crown)
Essays and reflections from the recently deceased conservative columnist.
4. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, by David Grann. (Vintage)
The story of a murder rampage in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. The fledgling FBI intervened, ineffectively.
5. HILLBILLY ELEGY, by J.D. Vance. (Harper)
A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood.
6. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner)
The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved from one bleak place to another. (b)
WEEKS ON LIST: 427
7*. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown)
Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
THIS WEEK: 7*
8. WHITE FRAGILITY, by Robin DiAngelo. (Beacon Press)
Historical and cultural analyses on what causes defensive moves by white people and how this inhibits cross-racial dialogue.
9. JUST MERCY, by Bryan Stevenson. (Spiegel & Grau)
A law professor and MacArthur grant recipient's memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.
10*. BEING MORTAL, by Atul Gawande. (Picador)
The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life, and how they can do better.
THIS WEEK: 10*
11. SHOE DOG, by Phil Knight. (Scribner)
A memoir by the co-founder of Nike Inc.
THIS WEEK: 11
12*. WHY WE SLEEP, by Matthew Walker. (Scribner)
A neuroscientist uses recent scientific discoveries to explain the functions of sleep and dreams.
13. THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
When we can and cannot trust our intuitions in making business and personal decisions.
14. THE NEW JIM CROW, by Michelle Alexander. (New Press)
A law professor on the war on drugs and its role in the disproportionate incarceration of black men.
15. BRAIN ON FIRE, by Susannah Cahalan. (Simon & Schuster)
A young reporter suddenly experiences seizures, hallucinations and near catatonia.
TRADE FICTION
1. ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE, by Gail Honeyman. (Penguin)
A young woman's well-ordered life is disrupted by the IT guy from her office.
2. CRAZY RICH ASIANS, by Kevin Kwan. (Anchor)
A New Yorker gets a surprise when she spends the summer with her boyfriend in Singapore.
3. THE HANDMAID'S TALE, by Margaret Atwood. (Anchor)
In the Republic of Gilead's dystopian future, men and women perform the services assigned to them.
4. LESS, by Andrew Sean Greer. (Back Bay)
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. To avoid an ex-boyfriend's wedding, a failed novelist attends literary events around the world.
5. THE ROOSTER BAR, by John Grisham. (Bantam)
Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.
6. SHARP OBJECTS, by Gillian Flynn. (Broadway)
Fresh from a stay at a psychiatric hospital, a newspaper reporter returns (reluctantly) to her hometown to cover the murders of two girls.
7. MILK AND HONEY, by Rupi Kaur. (Andrews McMeel)
A collection of poetry about love, loss, trauma and healing.
8. INTO THE WATER, by Paula Hawkins. (Riverhead)
Women are found drowned in a river in a small English town.
9. THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS, by Rupi Kaur. (Andrews McMeel)
A second collection of poetry from the author of "Milk and Honey."
10. THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10, by Ruth Ware. (Scout)
A travel writer on a cruise is certain she has heard a body thrown overboard, but no one believes her.
11. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr. (Scribner)
The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II.
12. THE GIRL WHO TAKES AN EYE FOR AN EYE, by David Lagercrantz. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Stieg Larsson's character Lisbeth Salander tries to uncover the secrets of her childhood.
13. A STRANGER IN THE HOUSE, by Shari Lapena. (Penguin)
Karen Krupp's life is turned upside down when she suffers amnesia because of a car crash.
14. THE NIGHTINGALE, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin's Griffin)
Two sisters in World War II France: one struggling to survive in the countryside, the other joining the Resistance.
15. PACHINKO, by Min Jin Lee. (Grand Central)
In the early 20th century, a Korean fisherman's daughter has a wealthy stranger's child, marries a pastor and moves to Japan.
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