Washington Post paperback bestsellers

3 THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY (Penguin, $18). By Matt Haig. A regretful woman lands in a library where she gets to play out her life had she made different choices.

4 MAD HONEY (Ballantine, $18). By Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan. A woman confronts the possibility that her teenage son is a murderer when his girlfriend dies from a fall.

5 THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO (Washington Square, $17). By Taylor Jenkins Reid. A Hollywood icon recounts the story of her glamorous life to a young reporter, and both discover the cost of fame.

6 BABEL (Harper Voyager, $20). By R.F. Kuang. A Chinese orphan, who is in Regency-era London for his magical education, feels torn between two cultures.

7 THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB (Penguin, $18). By Richard Osman. Four septuagenarians join forces to catch a killer.

8 IT ENDS WITH US (Atria, $16.99). By Colleen Hoover. A woman questions her relationship with a commitment-phobic partner when her old flame appears.

9 NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT (Vintage, $17). Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. An anthology of dark fiction by Indigenous authors includes stories by Tommy Orange, Rebecca Roanhorse and David Heska Wanbli Weiden.

10 THE PASSENGER (Vintage, $18). By Cormac McCarthy. A mysterious plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico is the catalyst for a salvage diver to contemplate his legacy.

1 KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Vintage, $17). David Grann. A look at the FBI’s investigation of Native American deaths in 1920s Oklahoma.

2 BRAIDING SWEETGRASS (Milkweed, $20). By Robin Wall Kimmerer. Essays by an indigenous scientist offer lessons in reciprocal awareness between people and plants.

3 AN IMMENSE WORLD (Random House, $20). By Ed Yong. A science writer describes different ways sensory perception can be experienced in animals, including humans.

4 CRYING IN H MART (Vintage, $17). By Michelle Zauner. A Korean American indie rock star chronicles her relationship with her mother and their shared culture.

5 AMERICAN PROMETHEUS (Vintage, $25). By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

6 ALL ABOUT LOVE (Morrow, $16.99). By bell hooks. The first volume in the iconic feminist’s “Love Song to the Nation” trilogy considers compassion as a form of love.

7 STAY TRUE (Anchor, $17). By Hua Hsu. The author of the Pulitzer-prizewinning memoir reflects on a college friendship — and subsequent tragedy — that altered his life.

8 THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE (Penguin, $19). By Bessel van der Kolk. A scientific look at how trauma can reshape a person’s body and brain.

9 SOLITO (Hogarth, $18). By Javier Zamora. A poet who fled El Salvador when he was 9 tells the story of his migration to the United States.

10 THE 2024 OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC (Old Farmer’s Almanac, $9.95). The classic reference guide forecasts culture, weather and trends.

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Oct. 1. The charts may not be reproduced without permission from the American Booksellers Association, the trade association for independent bookstores in the United States, and indiebound.org. Copyright 2023 American Booksellers Association. (The bestseller lists alternate between hardcover and paperback each week.)