BEST-SELLERS: PAPERBACK BOOKS

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 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. 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.

NON-FICTION

1. SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (Harper Perennial)

How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species.

THIS WEEK: 1

WEEKS ON LIST: 28

2. BEAUTIFUL BOY, by David Sheff. (Mariner)

A father struggles with his son’s meth addiction.

THIS WEEK: 2

WEEKS ON LIST: 11

3. 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.

THIS WEEK: 3

WEEKS ON LIST: 34

4. ANDREW JACKSON AND THE MIRACLE OF NEW ORLEANS, by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. (Sentinel)

Maj. Gen. Jackson takes on the British in Louisiana.

THIS WEEK: 4

WEEKS ON LIST: 5

5. 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.

THIS WEEK: 5

WEEKS ON LIST: 20

6. MY OWN WORDS, by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams. (Simon & Schuster)

A collection of articles and speeches by the Supreme Court justice.

THIS WEEK: 6

WEEKS ON LIST: 2

7. GRIT, by Angela Duckworth. (Scribner)

The MacArthur Fellow argues that passion and perseverance are more important than innate talent in creating success.

THIS WEEK: 7

WEEKS ON LIST: 14

8. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, by Ron Chernow. (Penguin)

A biography of the first Treasury secretary and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Originally published in 2004 and the basis of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.

THIS WEEK: 8

WEEKS ON LIST: 105

9. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van der Kolk. (Penguin)

How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.

THIS WEEK: 9

WEEKS ON LIST: 5

10. 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.

THIS WEEK: 10

WEEKS ON LIST: 131

11*. 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: 11*

WEEKS ON LIST: 64

12. KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, by Anthony Bourdain. (Ecco)

A memoir-exposé of the restaurant world. Originally published in 2000.

THIS WEEK: 12

WEEKS ON LIST: 60

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.

THIS WEEK: 13

WEEKS ON LIST: 190

14. BOY ERASED, by Garrard Conley. (Riverhead)

The sexually conflicted son of a Baptist pastor must either attend a church-supported therapy program or lose his family.

THIS WEEK: 14

WEEKS ON LIST: 3

15. CODE GIRLS, by Liza Mundy. (Hachette)

The story of the more than 10,000 women “code breakers” during World War II.

THIS WEEK: 15

WEEKS ON LIST: 7

TRADE FICTION

1. THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, by Heather Morris. (Harper)

A concentration camp detainee tasked with permanently marking fellow prisoners falls in love with one of them.

THIS WEEK: 1

WEEKS ON LIST: 12

2. CRAZY RICH ASIANS, by Kevin Kwan. (Anchor)

A New Yorker gets a surprise when she spends the summer with her boyfriend in Singapore.

THIS WEEK: 2

WEEKS ON LIST: 31

3. 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.

THIS WEEK: 3

WEEKS ON LIST: 25

4*. MILK AND HONEY, by Rupi Kaur. (Andrews McMeel)

A collection of poetry about love, loss, trauma and healing.

THIS WEEK: 4*

WEEKS ON LIST: 137

5. THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS, by Rupi Kaur. (Andrews McMeel)

A second collection of poetry from the author of “Milk and Honey.”

THIS WEEK: 5

WEEKS ON LIST: 60

6. 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.

THIS WEEK: 6

WEEKS ON LIST: 27

7. THE WIFE BETWEEN US, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. (St. Martin’s)

The story of a love triangle is told from several points of view.

THIS WEEK: 7

WEEKS ON LIST: 4

8. CHINA RICH GIRLFRIEND, by Kevin Kwan. (Anchor)

The second book in the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy. As her wedding draws near, Rachel Chu discovers her birth father.

THIS WEEK: 8

WEEKS ON LIST: 18

9. 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.

THIS WEEK: 9

WEEKS ON LIST: 23

10. THE 17TH SUSPECT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Grand Central)

The 17th book in the Women’s Murder Club series.

THIS WEEK: 10

WEEKS ON LIST: 3

11. MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, by Elena Ferrante. (Europa)

The first installment in the author’s Neapolitan series, about the lifelong friendship between two women.

THIS WEEK: 11

WEEKS ON LIST: 36

12. SOLD ON A MONDAY, by Kristina McMorris. (Sourcebooks Landmark)

A staged photograph launches the career of a struggling journalist and devastates a family during the Great Depression.

THIS WEEK: 12

WEEKS ON LIST: 5

13*. 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.

THIS WEEK: 13*

WEEKS ON LIST: 60

14. 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.

THIS WEEK: 14

WEEKS ON LIST: 70

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.

THIS WEEK: 15

WEEKS ON LIST: 38