Each week, The Sunday Times puts together a list of top-selling books in the UK. It’s an extensive list covering hardbacks, paperbacks, general, fiction, and children’s books. You can see the full list for 11 June 2020 over at The Times, but we’ve picked our favourites from this list for you to peruse.
General — hardbacks
How to Argue With a Racist by Adam Rutherford
How to Argue With a Racist enables us to have responsible, enlightened discourse by illuminating what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference. We know now that the racial categories still vexing society do not align with observable genetic differences. In fact, our differences are so minute that, most of all, they serve as evidence of our shared humanity.
The Wild Remedy by Emma Mitchell
In Emma's hand-illustrated diary, she takes us with her as she stomps the paths and trails around her home and further afield, sharing her nature finds and tracking the lives of local flora and fauna over the course of a year. Reflecting on how these encounters impact her mood, she explains the science behind such changes, calling on new research into forest bathing and our innate urge to be among leafy, furred and feathered things.
General — paperbacks
Good Vibes, Good Life by Vex King
Be the best version of you that YOU can be.
How can you learn to truly love yourself? How can you transform negative emotions into positive ones? Is it possible to find lasting happiness?
In this book, Instagram guru Vex King answers all of these questions and more. Vex overcame adversity to become a source of hope for thousands of young people, and now draws from his personal experience and his intuitive wisdom to inspire you too.
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Fiction — hardbacks
Five Hundred Miles from You by Jenny Colgan
Three months. Two people. One love story. Lissa Westcott loves being a nurse, but recently she's been doing a better job of looking after other people than looking after herself. Deciding she needs a break from London, Lissa agrees to swap positions with someone in the little Scottish village of Kirrinfief. Five hundred and eighty-three miles north, Cormac MacPherson is feeling restless. Not long out of the army, he came to Kirrinfief in search of a peaceful life, which so far has eluded him. He's never spent more than a day in a big city, so perhaps a change of scene would do him good. It's only three months - what's the worst that could happen? As Lissa and Cormac settle into each other's lives - navigating the lack of personal space (Cormac) and food delivery options (Lissa) - they email constantly about anything and everything. But what will happen when Lissa and Cormack finally meet?
Fair Warning by Michael Connelly
Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, he realises he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered.
Jack investigates against the warnings of the police and his own editor, walking a thin line between investigation and obsession, and makes a shocking discovery, connecting the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But then he himself becomes a suspect, and as he races to clear his name, Jack's findings point to a serial killer who uses personal data shared by the victims themselves to select and hunt his targets.
Fiction — paperbacks
Many Rivers to Cross by Peter Robinson
In Eastvale, a young Middle Eastern boy is found dead, his body stuffed into a wheelie bin on the East Side Estate. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team know they must tread carefully to solve this sensitive case, but tensions rise when they learn that the victim was stabbed somewhere else and dumped. Who is the boy, and where did he come from?
I Made a Mistake by Jane Corry
A married mother of two’s lapse in judgement leads to devastating consequences.
Childrens
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a dystopian action-adventure novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is a spinoff and a prequel to The Hunger Games trilogy.