The weeks bestselling books, Feb. 1

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

2.Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy (Ballantine Books: $30) A teenager embarks on a secret relationship with her teacher.

3.Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press: $28) A woman reflects on a youthful love triangle and its consequences.

4.What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Knopf: $30) A genre-bending love story about people and the words they leave behind.

5.The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hogarth: $32) The fates of two young people intersect and diverge across continents and years.

6.Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $28) A family comes undone in a small 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 woman and her stepdaughter must go on the run after someone from their past reappears in the sequel to “The Last Thing He Told Me.” 9.Crucible by John Sayles (Melville House: $33) A sweeping historical novel about Henry Ford and his attempt to rule Detroit.

10.Twelve Months by Jim Butcher (Ace: $30) Professional wizard Harry Dresden struggles to move on after narrowly managing to save Chicago.

…1.Firestorm by Jacob Soboroff (Mariner Books: $30) An account of the Palisades fire from a journalist who reported on the ground as his hometown was destroyed.2.

A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books: $28) The true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea.3.

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Knopf: $28) Reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its values.4.

Football by Chuck Klosterman (Penguin Press: $32) The culture writer gets to the bottom of the country’s most popular sport.5.

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