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BEST-SELLERS: COMBINED PRINT AND E-BOOKS

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, March 24, 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. 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. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) 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 methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology.

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Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, March 24, 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. 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. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) 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 methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology.

E and P COMBINED FICTION

1. ACCIDENTAL HEROES, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte)

Strangers pull together to avert a disaster involving two flights from New York to San Francisco.

THIS WEEK: 1

LAST WEEK: —

WEEKS ON LIST: 1

2. THE PUNISHMENT SHE DESERVES, by Elizabeth George. (Viking)

Detectives Havers and Lynley investigate the death of a deacon accused of a serious crime in a historic medieval town in England.

THIS WEEK: 2

LAST WEEK: —

WEEKS ON LIST: 1

3. CAMINO ISLAND, by John Grisham. (Doubleday)

A search for stolen rare manuscripts leads to a Florida island.

THIS WEEK: 3

LAST WEEK: 2

WEEKS ON LIST: 16

4. READY PLAYER ONE, by Ernest Cline. (Broadway)

It’s 2044, life on a resource-depleted Earth has grown increasingly grim, and the key to a vast fortune is hidden in a virtual-reality world.

THIS WEEK: 4

LAST WEEK: 3

WEEKS ON LIST: 18

5. THE BISHOP’S PAWN, by Steve Berry. (Minotaur)

Cotton Malone discovers revelations about the day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

THIS WEEK: 5

LAST WEEK: —

WEEKS ON LIST: 1

6. THE GREAT ALONE, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s)

A former prisoner of war returns from Vietnam and moves his family to Alaska, where they face tough conditions.

THIS WEEK: 6

LAST WEEK: 4

WEEKS ON LIST: 7

7. COVERT GAME, by Christine Feehan. (Berkley)

Gino Mazza must save an artificial intelligence expert who tampered with a crime lord’s computer network.

THIS WEEK: 7

LAST WEEK: —

WEEKS ON LIST: 1

8. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press)

An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.

THIS WEEK: 8

LAST WEEK: 8

WEEKS ON LIST: 22

9. THE RISING SEA, by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. (Putnam)

A scientific team searches the globe for the threat causing sea levels to rise at an alarming rate.

THIS WEEK: 9

LAST WEEK: 1

WEEKS ON LIST: 2

10. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, by A.J. Finn. (Morrow)

A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem town house.

THIS WEEK: 10

LAST WEEK: 7

WEEKS ON LIST: 12

11. RED SPARROW, by Jason Matthews. (Scribner)

A Russian intelligence officer trained in the art of seduction becomes entangled with a young CIA officer.

THIS WEEK: 11

LAST WEEK: 9

WEEKS ON LIST: 5

12. AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE, by Tayari Jones. (Algonquin)

A newlywed couple’s relationship is tested when the husband is sentenced to 12 years in prison.

THIS WEEK: 12

LAST WEEK: 11

WEEKS ON LIST: 7

13. THE TEMPTATION OF FORGIVENESS, by Donna Leon. (Atlantic Monthly )

The 27th book in the Commissario Guido Brunetti series.

THIS WEEK: 13

LAST WEEK: —

WEEKS ON LIST: 1

14. THE ESCAPE ARTIST, by Brad Meltzer. (Grand Central)

Nola Brown, a painter and trained soldier, discovers a military secret that traces back to Harry Houdini.

THIS WEEK: 14

LAST WEEK: 6

WEEKS ON LIST: 3

15. BEFORE WE WERE YOURS, by Lisa Wingate. (Ballantine)

A South Carolina lawyer learns about the questionable practices of a Tennessee orphanage.

THIS WEEK: 15

LAST WEEK: 12

WEEKS ON LIST: 26

E and P COMBINED NONFICTION

1. SECRET EMPIRES, by Peter Schweizer. (Harper)

The author of “Clinton Cash” describes what some politicians might do to enrich themselves while in office.

THIS WEEK: 1

LAST WEEK: —

WEEKS ON LIST: 1

2. RUSSIAN ROULETTE, by Michael Isikoff and David Corn. (Twelve)

Details of the 2016 presidential election, with an emphasis on Russia’s possible involvement.

THIS WEEK: 2

LAST WEEK: 1

WEEKS ON LIST: 2

3. EDUCATED, by Tara Westover. (Random House)

The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.

THIS WEEK: 3

LAST WEEK: 3

WEEKS ON LIST: 5

4. FIRE AND FURY, by Michael Wolff. (Holt)

A journalist offers an inside account of the first year of the Trump White House.

THIS WEEK: 4

LAST WEEK: 5

WEEKS ON LIST: 12

5. I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK, by Michelle McNamara. (Harper)

The late true-crime journalist’s search for the serial murderer and rapist known as “the Golden State Killer.”

THIS WEEK: 5

LAST WEEK: 4

WEEKS ON LIST: 4

6. A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, by Stephen Hawking. (Bantam)

The British cosmologist reviews efforts to create a unified theory of the universe; first published in 1988.

THIS WEEK: 6

LAST WEEK: 2

WEEKS ON LIST: 5

7. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY, by Neil deGrasse Tyson. (Norton)

A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the laws that govern the universe.

THIS WEEK: 7

LAST WEEK: 6

WEEKS ON LIST: 46

8. ENLIGHTENMENT NOW, by Steven Pinker. (Viking)

A case for using reason, science and humanism to counter pessimistic views of Western civilization.

THIS WEEK: 8

LAST WEEK: 7

WEEKS ON LIST: 6

9. PRETTY MESS, by Erika Jayne. (Gallery)

A memoir by the star of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”

THIS WEEK: 9

LAST WEEK: —

WEEKS ON LIST: 1

10. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, by David Grann. (Doubleday)

The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil.

THIS WEEK: 10

LAST WEEK: 8

WEEKS ON LIST: 41

11. THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY, by Bart D. Ehrman. (Simon & Schuster)

The religious studies professor explores how a new religion came to influence Western society.

THIS WEEK: 11

LAST WEEK: —

WEEKS ON LIST: 1

12. OBAMA, by Pete Souza. (Little, Brown)

More than 300 pictures of the former president by his White House photographer, with behind-the-scenes stories.

THIS WEEK: 12

LAST WEEK: 9

WEEKS ON LIST: 15

13. THE LAST BLACK UNICORN, by Tiffany Haddish. (Gallery)

The comedian recounts growing up in South Central Los Angeles and finding success after a period of homelessness.

THIS WEEK: 13

LAST WEEK: 10

WEEKS ON LIST: 16

14. BORN A CRIME, by Trevor Noah. (Spiegel & Grau)

A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”

THIS WEEK: 14

LAST WEEK: 12

WEEKS ON LIST: 32

15. IN THE SHADOW OF STATUES, by Mitch Landrieu. (Viking)

A memoir by the mayor who called for the removal of four Confederate monuments in New Orleans.

THIS WEEK: 15

LAST WEEK: —

WEEKS ON LIST: 1

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