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New York Times bestsellers

August 4, 2015 at 4:21PM

“Go Set a Watchman: A Novel,” by Harper Lee. (Photo courtesy Harper/TNS) ORG XMIT: 1170632 ORG XMIT: MIN1507091226290904 (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

FICTION

1. GO SET A WATCHMAN, by Harper Lee. (Harper) In the mid-1950s, a grown-up Jean Louise Finch returns home to Macomb to find that her adored father is not as perfect as she believed.

2. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. (Riverhead) A psychological thriller set in the environs of London.

3. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr. (Scribner) The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II; winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize.

4. ARMADA, by Ernest Cline. (Crown) A teenage gamer helps save the Earth from an alien invasion.

5. THE ENGLISH SPY, by Daniel Silva. (Harper) Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, helps British intelligence track down the killer of a beautiful former member of the royal family.

6. CODE OF CONDUCT, by Brad Thor. (Emily Bestler/Atria) In Thor's 15th thriller, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath undertakes a deadly assignment set in motion by a leaked video.

7. NAKED GREED, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam) In the 34th Stone Barrington novel, a New York lawyer helps a client open a beer distributorship and subsequently becomes the target of a group of toughs.

8. THE NIGHTINGALE, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin's) Two sisters in World War II France: one struggling to survive in the countryside, the other joining the Resistance in Paris.

9. THE RUMOR, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Little, Brown) Two friends on Nantucket must deal with damaging gossip about themselves and their husbands.

10. NEMESIS, by Catherine Coulter. (Putnam) In Coulter's 19th FBI suspense thriller, agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich must discover who is responsible for bombings in New York City.

NONFICTION

1. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. (Spiegel & Grau) A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story by the national correspondent of the Atlantic, framed as a letter to his teenage son.

2. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, by David McCullough. (Simon & Schuster) The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.

3. MODERN ROMANCE, by Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg. (Penguin Press) Comedian enlists a sociologist to help him understand today's dating scene.

4. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, by Holly Madison. (Dey Street/Morrow) Life inside the Playboy Mansion, by a former bunny and girlfriend of Hugh Hefner.

5. BEING MORTAL, by Atul Gawande. (Metropolitan/Holt) Surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life and how they can do better.

6. DEAD WAKE, by Erik Larson. (Crown) The last voyage of the Lusitania, the passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo in 1915.

7. A FULL LIFE, by Jimmy Carter. (Simon & Schuster) At 90, the 39th president (and Nobel Prize winner) reflects on his private and public life.

8. A TIME FOR TRUTH, by Ted Cruz. (Broadside/HarperCollins) Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate tells his personal and political story, and offers ideas for "reigniting the promise of America."

9. THE CONSERVATIVE HEART, by Arthur C. Brooks. (Broadside/HarperCollins) President of the American Enterprise Institute urges conservatives to revise their rhetoric and make clear their concern for everyday people. (b)

10. SICK IN THE HEAD, by Judd Apatow. (Random House) Thirty years' worth of the filmmaker's interviews with comedians.

Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous

1. THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF TIDYING UP, by Marie Kondo. (Ten Speed) A guide to decluttering by discarding expendable objects all at once and taking charge of your space.

2. THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (Northfield) A guide to communicating love in a way your spouse will understand — with quality time, affirmative words, gifts, acts of service and physical touch.

3. THUG KITCHEN, by the staff of Thug Kitchen. (Rodale) More than 100 vegan recipes, including cornmeal waffles with strawberry syrup, from the creators of the popular and irreverent website. (b)

4. THE WHOLE30, by Melissa Hartwig and Dallas Hartwig. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) An overview of a 30-day guide to better health and weight loss. (b)

5. GET WHAT'S YOURS, by Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Philip Moeller and Paul Solman. (Simon & Schuster) A guide to deciding when to claim Social Security benefits and to getting all you're eligible for when you do.

Rankings reflect sales at venues nationwide for the week ending July 18. An (x) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) indicates that some sellers report receiving bulk orders.