The week's bestselling books, Feb. 1

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Hardcover fiction

1. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Crown: $28) A lifelong missive writer reckons with a achy past.

2. Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy (Ballantine Books: $30) A teen embarks connected a concealed narration with her teacher.

3. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press: $28) A pistillate reflects connected a youthful emotion triangle and its consequences.

4. What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Knopf: $30) A genre-bending emotion communicative astir radical and the words they permission behind.

5. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hogarth: $32) The fates of 2 young radical intersect and diverge crossed continents and years.

6. Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $28) A household comes undone successful a tiny coastal town.

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

8. The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave (Scribner: $29) A pistillate and her stepdaughter indispensable spell connected the tally aft idiosyncratic from their past reappears successful the sequel to “The Last Thing He Told Me.”

9. Crucible by John Sayles (Melville House: $33) A sweeping humanities caller astir Henry Ford and his effort to regularisation Detroit.

10. Twelve Months by Jim Butcher (Ace: $30) Professional wizard Harry Dresden struggles to determination connected aft narrowly managing to prevention Chicago.

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Hardcover nonfiction

1. Firestorm by Jacob Soboroff (Mariner Books: $30) An relationship of the Palisades occurrence from a writer who reported connected the crushed arsenic his hometown was destroyed.

2. A Marriage astatine Sea by Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books: $28) The existent communicative of a young mates shipwrecked astatine sea.

3. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Knopf: $28) Reckoning with what it means to unrecorded successful a West that betrays its values.

4. Football by Chuck Klosterman (Penguin Press: $32) The civilization writer gets to the bottommost of the country’s astir fashionable sport.

5. Bread of Angels by Patti Smith (Random House: $30) A caller memoir from the legendary writer and artist.

6. 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking: $35) An exploration of the astir infamous banal marketplace clang successful history.

7. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Hay House: $30) How to halt wasting vigor connected things you can’t control.

8. Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $30) A takedown of Christian hypocrisy and a telephone for compassion.

9. Strangers by Belle Burden (The Dial Press: $30) A pistillate explores her marriage, its extremity and the antheral she thought she knew.

10. The Uncool by Cameron Crowe (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $35) The filmmaker recounts his experiences arsenic a teen euphony journalist.

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