FICTION
1. Sooley, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.
2. The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman. (Viking) The poem read on President Joe Biden's Inauguration Day, by the youngest poet to write and perform an inaugural poem.
3. Finding Ashley, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) Two estranged sisters, one a former bestselling author, the other a nun, reconnect as one searches for the child the other gave up.
4. A Gambling Man, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town.
5. The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin's) As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West.
6. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig. (Viking) Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.
7. Ocean Prey, by John Sandford. (Putnam) The 31st book in the "Prey" series. When federal officers are killed, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to investigate matters.
8. Whereabouts, by Jhumpa Lahiri. (Knopf) A woman who feels lost in life finds solace in the city she calls home and gets a new outlook while visiting the sea.
9. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, by V.E. Schwab. (Tor/Forge) A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.
10. Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good, by Timothy Zahn. (Del Rey) In this "Star Wars" saga, Thrawn and the Expansionary Defense Fleet discover how their enemy truly operates.
NONFICTION
1. What Happened to You? by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey. (Flatiron) An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.
2. The Bomber Mafia, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown) A look at the key players and outcomes of precision bombing during World War II.
3. You Are Your Best Thing, edited by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown. (Random House) An anthology of writing on the Black experience and shame resilience.
4. How Y'all Doing? by Leslie Jordan. (Morrow) A collection of essays by the Emmy-winning actor who became a viral sensation without knowing what that phrase meant at the time.
5. Out of Many, One, by George W. Bush. (Crown) Forty-three portraits by the former president, of men and women who have immigrated to the United States.
6. Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner. (Knopf) The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.
7. Untamed, by Glennon Doyle. (Dial) The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.
8. Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson. (Random House) The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.
9. Greenlights, by Matthew McConaughey. (Crown) The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.
10. The Code Breaker, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster) How Nobel Prize-winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues invented CRISPR, a tool that can edit DNA.
Advice, How-To, Miscellaneous
1. World Travel, by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever. (Ecco)
2. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy. (HarperOne)
3. The Women of the Bible Speak, by Shannon Bream. (Broadside) (b)
4. Atomic Habits, by James Clear. (Avery) (b)
5. Cook This Book, by Molly Baz. (Clarkson Potter)
Rankings reflect sales at venues nationwide for the week ending May 1. A (b) indicates that some sellers report receiving bulk orders.
