The week's bestselling books, May 4

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Hardcover fiction

1. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (Berkley: $29) Two writers vie for the accidental to archer the larger-than-life communicative of an heiress.

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

3. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books: $29) As oversea levels rise, a household connected a distant land rescues a mysterious woman.

4. Audition by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead Books: $28) An accomplished histrion grapples with the varied roles she plays successful her idiosyncratic life.

5. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Worlds collide erstwhile a teen vanishes from her Adirondacks summertime camp.

6. The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (Pantheon: $29) A pistillate fights for state successful a near-future wherever adjacent dreams are nether surveillance.

7. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster: $29) A emotion triangle unearths unsafe secrets.

8. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $29) Two grieving brothers travel to presumption with their history.

9. The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Henry Holt & Co.: $29) An unexpected wedding impermanent gets astonishment help.

10. Strangers successful Time by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing: $30) Two London teens scarred by World War II find an unexpected state successful a bereaved bookshop owner.

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Hardcover nonfiction

1. Notes to John by Joan Didion (Knopf: $32) Diary entries from the famed writer’s journal.

2. Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $30) A telephone to renew a authorities of plentifulness and wantonness the chosen scarcities that person deformed American life.

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

4. Fahrenheit-182 by Mark Hoppus and Dan Ozzi (Dey Street Books: $33) A memoir from the vocalist, bassist and founding subordinate of pop-punk set Blink-182.

5. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) The euphony shaper connected however to beryllium a originative person.

6. Everything Is Tuberculosis (signed edition) by John Green (Crash Course Books: $28). The profoundly quality communicative of the combat against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

7. 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 cardinal values.

8. When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter (Penguin Press: $32) The erstwhile Vanity Fair exertion recalls the glamorous heyday of people magazines.

9. Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams (Flatiron Books: $33) An insider’s relationship of moving astatine Facebook.

10. Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton (Pantheon: $27) A meditation connected freedom, trust, nonaccomplishment and our narration with the earthy world.

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