The weeks bestselling books, Oct. 18

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Set us as preferred 1.American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee (Cardinal: $36) A Korean family navigates financial crises, relocation and education.

2.Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books: $25) Would-be riders at a military college fight to earn the bond of a dragon or die trying.

3.The Disappearers by Marlon James (Riverhead Books: $32) The killing of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica has far-reaching consequences.

4.Exit Party by Emily St.

John Mandel (Knopf: $32) A woman searches for answers across two timelines in the aftermath of the collapse of the U.S.5.

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau: $35) In 1933 Mississippi, a group of female friends forms a defiant bond.6.Hollywood, Ending by John Green (Dutton Books: $32) A behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world.

7.The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday: $32) The adventures of a sea captain based on the real-life Grace O’Malley.8.

Partita by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper: $32) A story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped in the eternal human longing for art and beauty.9.

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.10.

The French Illusion by John Grisham (Doubleday: $35) A couple’s Paris honeymoon takes a dark turn when they’re kidnapped.…1.

Blockers by Michael Lewis (W.W.

Norton & Co.: $30) An inside look at the early days of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.2.Roll the Calls by Ari Emanuel (Knopf: $35) The Hollywood dealmaker unloads in a take-no-prisoners memoir.

3.The American Way of Killing by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown & Co.: $34) An investigation into America’s epidemic of gun violence.

4.Sleeping...