Hardcover fiction
1. The power of the few James Islington (S&S/Saga Press: $34) Book 2 of the Hierarchical Quartet fantasy series.
2. Correspondent Virginia Evans (Crown: $28) She spends her life writing letters and remembering her painful past.
3. The heart of a lover Lily King (Grove Press: $28) A woman reflects on a teenage love triangle and its consequences.
4. Test site Michael Connelly (Little, Brown & Co.: $32) Lincoln's lawyer is back with a lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company for its role in the murder of a girl.
5. Robbers and bread knives By Travis Baldry (Tor Books: $29) A new fantasy adventure in the Legends and Lattes series featuring a foul-mouthed bookseller.
6. Black wolf Louise Penny (Minotaur Books: $30) The latest mystery in the Armand Gamache series.
7. Shadow ticket Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press: $30) Private Eye, 1932. Milwaukee is hired to find a missing dairy heiress.
8. The loneliness of Sonya and Sunny Kiran Desai (Hogarth: $32) The destinies of two young people intersect and diverge in different continents and years.
9. Gone before goodbye Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon (Grand Central Publishing: $32) The bestselling author and Oscar winner team up for the story of a woman caught in a deadly conspiracy.
10. What can we know Ian McEwan (Knopf: $30) A genre-bending love story about people and the words they leave behind.
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Nonfiction Hardcover
1. Bread of Angels Patti Smith (Random House: $30) A new memoir from the legendary writer and artist.
2. Lessons from cats for surviving fascism Stuart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing: $13). A guide to using cat wisdom in the face of authoritarian bullshit.
3. Uncool Cameron Crowe (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $35) The director recounts his experiences as a teenage music journalist.
4. Nobody's Girl Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf: $35) A posthumous memoir by Jeffrey Epstein and his most outspoken victim, Ghislaine Maxwell.
5. Something from nothing Alison Roman (Clarkson Potter: $38). Over 100 recipes to make the most of a well-stocked pantry.
6. 1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking: $35) An examination of the most infamous stock market crash in history.
7. Always remember Charlie Mackey (A Penguin's Life: $27). Return to the world of “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.”
8. Appearance Michelle Obama (Crown: $50) Explores the evolution of the former first lady's style through more than 200 photographs.
9. Good deeds Author: Samin Nosrat (Random House: $45). The celebrity chef shares 125 carefully tested recipes.
10. Book of Lives Margaret Atwood (Doubleday: $35) The author of The Handmaid's Tale tells her story.
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Paperback Fiction
1. Project “Hail Mary” Andy Weir (Ballantyne: $22)
2. Martyr! Kaveh Akbar (Vintage: $18)
3. Leo women from Tehran Marjane Kamali (Gallery Books: $19)
4. I, who have never known a man Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books: $17)
5. Surprisingly colorful creatures Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco: $20)
6. Life is impossible Matt Haig (Penguin: $19)
7. Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial: $22)
8. Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman (Penguin: $18)
9. Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reed (Ballantyne: $18)
10. Tell me everything Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade paperbacks: $18)
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Paperback Nonfiction
1. The fight against oligarchy Senator Bernie Sanders (Crown: $15)
2. About tyranny Timothy Snyder (Crown: $12)
3. Leaning towards Bethlehem Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: $18)
4. Art thief Michael Finkel (vintage: $18)
5. Catching big fish David Lynch (Tarcher: $20)
6. Tipping Point Revenge Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books: $22)
7. Alchemist Paulo Coelho (HarperOne: $18)
8. The artist's path Julia Cameron (Tarcher Perigee: $24)
9. Best American Essays of 2025. Gia Tolentino and Kim Dana Kupperman (editors) (Mariner Books: $19)
10. Everything is now Rosecrans Baldwin (Picador: $19)
