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NYT Best Sellers: August 2024

This is an up-to-date list of books from the New York Times Best Sellers list, including both fiction and nonfiction titles.

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Fiction

RANK

TITLE

SUMMARY

CALL NUMBER

1

In 1965, a nursing student follows her brother to serve during the Vietnam War and returns to a divided America.

 

 

F HANNAH

2

The fifth book in the All Souls series. Diana faces her family’s dark past and determines to forge a different future.

 

 

ON-ORDER

3

Nantucket residents are alarmed when a home, recently sold at an exorbitant price, goes up in flames and someone goes missing.

 

 

F HILDERBRAND

4

Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.

 

 

SF YARROS

5

The Big Island of Hawaii comes under threat by a volcano at the same time a secret held by the military comes to light.

 

 

F CRICHTON

6

The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training might require her to betray the man she loves.

 

SF YARROS

7

The 24th book in the Gabriel Allon series. Gabriel forges six impressionist canvases and enlists an unlikely team of operatives to go after a new foe.

 

 

ON-ORDER

8

When a 13-year-old girl disappears from an Adirondack summer camp in 1975, secrets kept by the Van Laar family emerge.

 

 

F MOORE

9

 

A dozen short stories that explore darkness in literal and metaphorical forms.

 

 

F KING

10

The third book in the Camino series. The last living inhabitant of a deserted island gets in the way of a resort developer.

 

 

F GRISHAM

11

Ten years after a tragedy close to graduation, Hannah and her college friends grapple with turning points in their lives.

 

 

F GRIFFIN

12

A widow working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium is aided in solving a mystery by a giant Pacific octopus living there.

 

 

F VAN PELT

13

 

During a summer vacation in Cape Cod, Rocky faces changes with her family, body and life.

 

 

F NEWMAN

14

Questions arise when a boy saves the daughter of a wealthy family amid a string of disappearances in a Missouri town in 1975.

 

 

F WHITAKER

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After their exes run off together, Daphne and Miles form a friendship and concoct a plan involving misleading photos.

 

 

F HENRY

Nonfiction

RANK

TITLE

SUMMARY

CALL NUMBER

1

A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health impacts that a phone-based life has on children.

 

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2

The author of “The Splendid and the Vile” portrays the months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of the Civil War.

 

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3

 

Twenty-five years after his death, an oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr.

 

Ask Circulation Desk

4

The author of “American Predator” puts forward a history of the Kennedy family that describes the abuse of women in its orbit.

 

ON-ORDER

5

The physician-scientist and immunologist chronicles his six decades of public service, including his work during the AIDS crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

BIO FAUCI

6

The "Fox & Friends Weekend" host shares his experiences serving in the Army and his views on the current state of the American military.

 

ON-ORDER

7

 

A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.

 

 

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8

The author of “Operation Paperclip” portrays possible outcomes in the minutes following a nuclear missile launch.

 

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9

A trove of items collected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s late husband inspired an appraisal of central figures and pivotal moments of the 1960s.

 

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10

The ABC host and former adviser to President Clinton describes the location where and conditions under which a dozen presidential administrations handled crises.

 

ON-ORDER

11

 

The author of “The Emerald Mile” goes with a friend on a journey to hike the Grand Canyon from end to end.

 

Ask Circulation Desk

12

The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events.

 

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13

The author of “The Code Breaker” traces Musk’s life and summarizes his work on electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence.

 

 

BIO MUSK

14

 

The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.

 

BIO MACCURDY

15

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The host of “Real Time With Bill Maher” gives his take on a variety of subjects in American culture and politics.

 

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