The week’s bestselling books, Sept. 8
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Hardcover fiction
1. Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Random House: $30) A social satire on the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance.
2. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press: $30) An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.
3. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $29) A woman upends her domestic life in this irreverent and tender novel.
4. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
5. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Two worlds collide when a teenager vanishes from her Adirondacks summer camp.
6. The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Henry Holt & Co.: $29) An unexpected wedding guest gets surprise help on her journey to starting anew.
7. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl (Random House: $29) An adventure through the food, art and fashion scenes of 1980s Paris.
8. By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult (Ballantine Books: $30) Two women playwrights, centuries apart — one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays — are forced to hide behind another name.
9. The Book of Bill by Alex Hirsch (Hyperion Avenue: $27) An infamous villain is back from the great beyond to finally tell his side of the story.
10. Table for Two by Amor Towles (Viking: $32) A collection of stories from the author of “The Lincoln Highway.”
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Hardcover nonfiction
1. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin Press: $32) The music producer’s guidance on how to be a creative person.
2. The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi (Simon & Schuster: $30) The most powerful woman in U.S. political history tells the story of how she became a master legislator.
3. Atomic Habits by James Clear (Avery: $27) A pragmatic road map to success.
4. The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne (Penguin Press: $30) The actor-director’s memoir of growing up in Hollywood and Manhattan.
5. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Press: $30) An investigation into the collapse of youth mental health.
6. On the Edge by Nate Silver (Penguin Press: $35) A deep investigation of the hidden world of power brokers and risk takers.
7. Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler (Simon & Schuster: $30) The popular artist’s memoir reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men affect the lives of women.
8. Imminent by Luis Elizondo (William Morrow: $30) The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for investigating UFOs tells his story.
9. The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson (Crown: $35) An exploration of the pivotal five months between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the start of the Civil War.
10. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord by Daniel J. Levitin (W.W. Norton & Co.: $33) The neuroscientist explores the curative powers of music, showing us how and why it is one of the most potent therapies today.
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Paperback fiction
1. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial: $22)
2. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions: $17)
3. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage: $19)
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury: $19)
5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne: $18)
6. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover (Atria: $17)
7. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden (Grand Central: $13)
8. Circe by Madeline Miller (Back Bay: $19)
9. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (Scribner: $17)
10. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (Celadon Books: $18)
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Paperback nonfiction
1. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (Vintage: $18)
2. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $18)
3. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen: $13)
4. The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan (Knopf: $35)
5. All About Love by bell hooks (Morrow: $17)
6. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi (Metropolitan Books: $20)
7. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Vintage: $17)
8. City of Quartz by Mike Davis (Verso: $22)
9. The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris (Penguin: $20)
10. Everything Now by Rosecrans Baldwin (Picador: $19)
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