The week's bestselling books, June 22

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Hardcover fiction

1. The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press: $30) An improbable brace develops a life-altering bond.

2. Bury Our Bones successful the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab (Tor Books: $30) A vampiric communicative follows 3 women crossed the centuries.

3. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books: $30) A communicative of friendship, emotion and adversity during the 1980s Space Shuttle program.

4. Nightshade by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown & Co.: $30) The bestselling transgression writer returns with a caller bull connected a mission, this clip connected Catalina Island.

5. My Friends by Fredrik Backman (Atria Books: $30) The enslaved betwixt a radical of teens 25 years earlier has a almighty effect connected a budding artist.

6. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (Berkley: $29) Two writers vie for the accidental to archer the larger-than-life communicative of an heiress.

7. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

8. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Worlds collide erstwhile a teen vanishes from her Adirondacks summertime camp.

9. The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books: $30) A young begetter grapples with calamity and the hunt for redemption.

10. King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby (Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar: $29) A antheral returns to his roots to prevention his household successful this Southern transgression epic.

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Hardcover nonfiction

1. Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $30) A telephone to renew a authorities of plentifulness and wantonness the chosen scarcities that person deformed American life.

2. Steve Martin Writes the Written Word by Steve Martin (Grand Central Publishing: $30) A postulation of top hits from the beloved histrion and comedian.

3. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) The euphony shaper connected however to beryllium a originative person.

4. How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast (Viking: $28) The author’s memoir connected her aggravated narration with her famed mother, writer Erica Jong.

5. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W. W. Norton & Co.: $32) The naturalist explores rivers arsenic surviving beings whose destiny is tied with our own.

6. The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad (Random House: $30) A usher to the creation of journaling, with contributions from Jon Batiste, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem and others.

7. The #1 Dad Book by James Patterson (Little, Brown & Co.: $25) The bestselling author’s tips connected being a amended father.

8. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press: $45) The Pulitzer-winning biographer explores the beingness of the celebrated American writer.

9. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Burgoyne (illustrator) (Scribner: $20) The “Braiding Sweetgrass” writer connected gratitude, reciprocity and community, and the lessons to instrumentality from the earthy world.

10. The Haves and Have-Yachts by Evan Osnos (Scribner: $30) A postulation of essays exploring American oligarchy and the civilization of excess.

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