The weeks bestselling books, August 30

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Set us as preferred 1.Whistler by Ann Patchett (Harper: $30) A woman reconnects with her former stepfather at the Metropolitan Museum of Art decades after a traumatic event separated them.

2.The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau: $35) In 1933 Mississippi, a group of female friends forms a defiant bond.3.

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf: $30) A “tradwife” influencer suddenly wakes up in the brutal world of 1855.4.

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (Random House: $29) A life-altering event forces a high school teacher to confront hidden truths.5.

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday: $30) The Pulitzer winner’s Harlem trilogy concludes with one last heist in 1980s New York.6.The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Crown: $28) A lifelong letter writer reckons with a painful past.

7.Etna by Paul Yoon (Scribner: $28) After a devastating war, a working dog embarks on a journey home.

8.The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson (Pamela Dorman: $30) A story of the dawn of midlife and a group of old friends finally growing up.

9.John of John by Douglas Stuart (Grove Press: $28) A young man returns to his Hebridean island home to find little has changed.

10.Ransom by Daniel Silva (Harper: $32) An art restorer and spy searches for the missing wife of a British billionaire.

…1.Strangers by Belle Burden (Dial Press: $30) A woman explores her marriage, its end and the man she thought she knew.2.

The Success Lie by Chantell Preston (Resolve Editions: $28) How women can build a life and career that actually fit.3.

The Land and Its People by David Sedaris (Little, Brown & Co.: $30) A collection of essays on what it means to be a traveler, a brother, a lifelong friend.4.

Regime Change by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan (Simon & Schuster: $34) The journalists chronicle the tumultuou...