New York Times Best Sellers: October 16, 2022

Lowen Ashleigh is hired by the husband of an injured writer to complete her popular series and uncovers a horrifying truth.

A high school kid inherits a shed that is a portal to another world where good and evil are at war.

Musicians from different backgrounds are attracted to each other and a mother flee with her son from an abusive husband.

The third book in the Scholomance series. Life after graduation turns out to be dangerous.

The third book in the Beartown series. Rivalries between two hockey-obsessed towns escalates into violence off the ice.

The sixth book in the Cassie Dewell series. Cassie works two cases involving buried treasure and a con man.

President Keegan Barrett’s power grab tests the loyalties of two C.I.A. agents.

The 21st book in the Mitch Rapp series. President Cook, a team of assassins and a killer known as Legion confront Rapp on different fronts.

A private investigator named Pinky helps an attorney try to clear a female police chief of sexual misconduct charges made by three male officers.

A forensic pathologist is on the trail of a serial killer in the Louisiana bayou.

A journalist who returns to her hometown vows to find a missing girl and solve a 20-year-old cold case.

A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.

In the nightlife world of 1926 London, Nellie Coker seeks to advance her six children.

As the pandemic starts, Lucy Barton and her ex-husband go to a small town in Maine, where they confront their shared history.

A tennis player comes out of retirement and trains with her father to defend her record.

The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.

The Daytime Emmy Award-winning TV host shares stories from her life on and off screen.

The conservative commentator's Killing series profiles. Elvis Presely, John Lennon and Muhammad Ali.

The astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium delves into subjects including politics, religion, gender and race.

The married journalists who write for The New York Times and The New Yorker posit that Donald Trump began to emulate the foreign autocrats he admired.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist depicts the service of college football players who served in the Marines during World War II.

An overview of events from 1945 to the present and how they might inform potential crises in the near future.

The creator of the web comic “xkcd” and former NASA roboticist looks into hypothetical and oddball scenarios.

The NPR legal affairs correspondent details her professional accomplishments and friendship with the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The potential ways in which trauma and stress from modern-day living can affect our physical health.

The Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine gives his take on the Republican Party over the last seven decades.

The poet describes his journey over two months from El Salvador to the United States to reconnect with his parents who left years earlier.

The former House Republican shares insights on the Jan. 6 Select Committee's investigation and details about the Trump White House.

The multiple award-winning actress describes the difficulties she encountered before claiming her sense of self and achieving professional success.

A memoir by the founder, co-editor and publisher of Rolling Stone magazine.