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Best-sellers: May 3

Fiction

1. The Girl on the Train: By Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in London.

2. The Liar: By Nora Roberts. After her husband's death, a woman returns with her daughter to her Smoky Mountain hometown, only to discover that her husband was a fraud who implicated her in his deceptions.

3. All the Light We Cannot See: By Anthony Doerr. The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II; the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize.

4. Every Fifteen Minutes: By Lisa Scottoline. A psychiatrist becomes the target of a sociopath.

5. The Stranger: By Harlan Coben. Characters' lives begin to fall apart as a mysterious stranger discloses secrets to them; a stand-alone thriller.

6. The Nightingale: By Kristin Hannah. Two sisters in World War II France: one struggling to survive in the countryside, the other joining the Resistance in Paris.

7. Miracle at Augusta: By James Patterson and Peter De Jonge. A troubled famous golfer finds redemption in mentoring a talented teenager.

8. At the Water's Edge: By Sara Gruen. In the course of a search for the Loch Ness monster during World War II, a Philadelphia socialite uncovers secrets about her husband.

9. A Spool of Blue Thread: By Anne Tyler. Four generations of a family are drawn to a house in the Baltimore suburbs.

10. Hot Pursuit: By Stuart Woods. In the 33rd Stone Barrington novel, the New York lawyer pursues an attractive pilot and must deal with her stalker ex-boyfriend as well as intrigue in the Middle East.

Nonfiction

1. The Road to Character: By David Brooks. The New York Times columnist extols personal virtues such as kindness and honesty in a materialistic age.

2. Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: By David Fisher. Stories of the American West; a companion volume to the Fox News series.

3. Dealing with China: By Henry M. Paulson Jr. The former Treasury secretary and onetime head of Goldman Sachs discusses how U.S. business and political leaders can work with China.

4. Dead Wake: By Erik Larson. The last voyage of the Lusitania, by the author of "The Devil in the White City."

5. The Residence: By Kate Andersen Brower. Fifty years of White House lore, based on interviews with butlers, maids, chefs and other staff members.

6. Being Mortal: By Atul Gawande. The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life and how they can do better.

7. A Curious Mind: By Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman. The Oscar-winning producer describes the importance of curiosity in his life and how others can harness its power.

8. Between You & Me: By Mary Norris. A memoir of a career in the New Yorker's storied copy department, along with grammar advice.

9. H is for Hawk: By Helen Macdonald. A grief-stricken British woman decides to raise a goshawk, a fierce bird that is notoriously difficult to tame.

10. Capital Dames: By Cokie Roberts. Women in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War.

New York Times
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