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NYT Best Sellers: September 2023

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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TITLE

 

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1

 

Three daughters, who return to their family orchard in the spring of 2020, learn about their mother’s relationship with a famous actor.

 

 

F PATCHETT

 

 

 

2

 

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

 

 

SF YARROS

 

 

 

3

 

A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.

 

 

F GARMUS

 

 

 

4

 

The Eagles’ starting quarterback is murdered and his wife, a Grammy-winning singer, is the prime suspect.

 

 

ON-ORDER

5

 

A reimagining of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.

 

 

F KINGSOLVER

6

 

Three generations of a family living on South India’s Malabar Coast suffer the loss of a family member by drowning.

 

 

F VERGHESE

7

 

After meeting a woman who shares the same birthday, Alix Summer becomes the subject of her own true crime podcast.

 

 

 

F JEWELL

8

 

Secrets held by the residents of a dilapidated neighborhood come to life when a skeleton is found at the bottom of a well.

 

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9

 

A former couple pretend to be together for the sake of their friends during their annual getaway in Maine.

 

 

F HENRY

10

 

A real estate agent who also is a vampire seeks the help of a medium to extricate the ghost who is haunting the house she needs to sell.

 

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11

 

 

Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.

 

 

F ZEVIN

12

 

A best-selling author inherits an estate near London from her uncle and contemplates embracing a new identity.

 

 

F STEEL

13

 

The 17th book in the Sigma Force series. After a geological disaster, Cmdr. Gray Pierce and his team go into action to prevent even greater threats.

 

 

 

 

F ROLLINS

14

 

After a tragedy, a popular food blogger brings friends from distinct times in her life to spend a weekend in Nantucket.

 

F HILDERBRAND

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Mia Jacob finds resonance between her mother’s time inside a cult in western Massachusetts and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.”

 

 

F HOFFMAN

 

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TITLE

 

SUMMARY

CALL NUMBER

 

 

 

1

 

 

A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.

 

 

612.68 A8851o 2023


 

 

 

2

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

 

 

910.91641 G759w 2023

 

 

 

 

3

 

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

 

 

 

BIO MCCURDY

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

The ways in which quantum computing might be a benefit to society.

 

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5

 

 

An oral history of the K-pop group that is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

 

 

 

782.42163095195 K1637b 2023

 

 

 

 

 

6

 

The Oscar-nominated star details discovering himself as a trans person and navigating abuse in Hollywood.

 

 

BIO PAGE

 

 

 

7

A hospice nurse shares some of her most impactful experiences and questions some of society's beliefs around end-of-life care.

 

 

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8

An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

 

 

153.42 G7611t 2021

 

 

9

One of the authors of “The Fourth Turning” gives reflections on the cycles of history and makes predictions of potential outcomes generated by the present era of polarization.

 

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10

 

An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.

 

 

616.8521 P4621w 2021

 

 

 

 

11

The author of “The Stranger in the Woods” tells the story of Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole art more than 200 times for the sake of admiring it.

 

 

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12

 

An overview of the personal and professional life of the conservative commentator Tucker Carlson.

 

 

ON-ORDER

 

 

 

13

 

 

The Grammy-nominated recording artist shares how he overcame obstacles in his life and career.

 

 

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14

 

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted” examines the ways in which affluent Americans keep poor people poor.

 

 

362.50973 D464p 2023

 

 

15

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The Duke of Sussex details his struggles with the royal family, loss of his mother, service in the British Army and marriage to Meghan Markle.

 

 

BIO HARRY