Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘The Water Dancer,’ Demi Moore’s ‘Inside Out’ top Publishers Weekly best-sellers

The National Book Award-winning author of ‘Between the World and Me’ hits No. 1 for hardcover fiction list with his first novel. And the actress is No. 1 for nonfiction with her memoir.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, the National Book Award-winning author of “Between the World and Me,” hits No. 1 on the hardcover fiction bestsellers list with “The Water Dancer,” his first novel.

Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
  2. “The Institute” by Stephen King (Scribner)
  3. “The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese)
  4. “Vince Flynn: Lethal Agent” by Kyle Mills (Atria/Emily Bestler Books)
  5. “The Dutch House” by Ann Patchett (Harper)
  6. “The Oracle” by Jonathan Cahn (Charisma House)
  7. “Killer Instinct” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown)
  8. “The Girl Who Lived Twice” by David Lagercrantz (Knopf)
  9. “The Titanic Secret” by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
  10. “Vendetta in Death” by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s Press)
  11. “The World That We Knew” by Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster)
  12. “The Secrets We Kept” by Lara Prescott (Knopf)
  13. “Red at the Bone” by Jacqueline Woodson (Riverhead)
  14. “Sins of the Fathers” by J.A. Jance (William Morrow)
  15. “The Silent Patient” by Alex Michaelides (Celadon)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
  1. “Inside Out” by Demi Moore (Harper)
  2. “The United States of Trump” by Bill O’Reilly (Henry Holt and Co.)
  3. “Talking to Strangers” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)
  4. “Over the Top” by Jonathan Van Ness (HarperOne)
  5. “Know My Name” by Chanel Miller (Viking)
  6. “Exonerated” by Dan Bongino (Post Hill Press)
  7. “Super Attractor” by Gabrielle Bernstein (Hay House)
  8. “The Ride of a Lifetime” by Robert Iger (Random House)
  9. “Permanent Record” by Edward Snowden (Metropolitan)
  10. “Stories That Stick” by Kindra Hall (HarperCollins Leadership)
  11. “Shut Up and Listen” by Tilman Fertitta (Harper Collins Leadership)
  12. “Call Sign Chaos” by Jim Mattis and Bing West (Random House)
  13. “Creative Calling” by Chase Jarvis (HarperBusiness)
  14. “Year of the Monkey” by Patti Smith (Knopf)
  15. “The Only Plane in the Sky” by Garrett M. Graff (Avid Reader Press)
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