3 A COURT OF MIST AND FURY (Bloomsbury, $19). By Sarah J. Maas. A woman struggles with her loyalty toward two warring courts.
4 THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY (Penguin, $18). By Matt Haig. A regretful woman lands in a library where she gets to play out her life had she made different choices.
5 TRUST (Riverhead, $17). By Hernan Diaz. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, an excessively wealthy family with a secret is the catalyst for examining how stories can shape the truth.
6 HORSE (Penguin, $19). By Geraldine Brooks. A scientist and a historian bond over their shared interest in a Civil War-era racehorse and his enslaved groom.
7 EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE (Mariner, $18.99). By Benjamin Stevenson. A murder takes place at a family reunion, and everyone is a suspect.
8 A LITTLE LIFE (Anchor, $18). By Hanya Yanagihara. The friendship between four college classmates endures decades after their graduation.
9 A COURT OF WINGS AND RUIN (Bloomsbury, $19). By Sarah J. Maas. As tensions escalate among magical courts, peacemaking efforts fail and war breaks out.
10 THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB (Penguin, $18). By Richard Osman. Four septuagenarians join forces to catch a killer.
1 KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Vintage, $18). David Grann. A look at the FBI’s investigation of Native American deaths in 1920s Oklahoma.
2 THE BOYS IN THE BOAT (Penguin, $19). By Daniel James Brown. The University of Washington’s underdog crew team defeats elite rowers to face Hitler’s German athletes in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
3 THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR ON PALESTINE (Picador, $19.99). By Rashid Khalidi. A historian of the Middle East traces events from 1917 to 2017 to argue that the conflict between Israel and Gaza is a war of colonial conquest.
4 ALL ABOUT LOVE (Morrow, $16.99). By bell hooks. The first volume in the iconic feminist’s “Love Song to the Nation” trilogy considers compassion as a form of love.
5 BRAIDING SWEETGRASS (Milkweed, $20). By Robin Wall Kimmerer. Essays by an Indigenous scientist offer lessons in reciprocal awareness between people and plants.
6 CRYING IN H MART (Vintage, $17). By Michelle Zauner. A Korean American indie-rock star chronicles her relationship with her mother and their shared culture.
7 THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE (Penguin, $19). By Bessel van der Kolk. A scientific look at how trauma can reshape a person’s body and brain.
8 THINK AGAIN (Penguin, $20). By Adam Grant. An organizational psychologist explains how there is wisdom in unlearning and rethinking our beliefs.
9 EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE (Harper Perennial, $18.99). By Dolly Alderton. A British journalist shares stories chronicling her attempts at finding happiness and love.
10 MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE (Simon & Schuster, $19.99). By Ilyon Woo. The true story of an enslaved couple who escaped to freedom by posing as a wealthy White man and his manservant.
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