Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

BEST-SELLERS

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Fiction

1. CAMINO ISLAND by John Grisham. A search for stolen rare manuscript­s leads to a Florida island.

2. THE IDENTICALS by Elin Hilderbran­d. Complicati­ons in the lives of identical twins who were raised by their divorced parents, one on Nantucket, one on Martha’s Vineyard.

3. TOM CLANCY: POINT OF CONTACT by Mike Maden. Jack Ryan Jr. helps thwart a global financial crisis. (Tom Clancy died in 2013.)

4. INTO THE WATER by Paula Hawkins. In this psychologi­cal thriller by the author of The Girl on the Train, women are found drowned in a river in an English town.

5. DRAGON TEETH by Michael Crichton. A paleontolo­gical rivalry plays out in 1870s Wyoming. A recently discovered manuscript by Crichton, who died in 2008.

6. COME SUNDOWN by Nora Roberts. Years after she was kidnapped, a woman returns to her family’s Montana ranch.

7. NO MIDDLE NAME by Lee Child. A complete collection of Jack Reacher stories.

8. NIGHTHAWK by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. The NUMA crew races the Russians and Chinese in a hunt for a missing American aircraft.

9. THE FIX by David Baldacci. Detective Amos Decker (Memory Man) witnesses a murder-suicide that turns out to be a matter of national security.

10. 16TH SEDUCTION by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. In San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club face their toughest case yet.

Nonfiction

1. UNDERSTAND­ING TRUMP by Newt Gingrich. The former House speaker explains the president’s philosophy and political agenda.

2. AL FRANKEN, GIANT OF THE SENATE by Al Franken. A memoir by the Democratic senator from Minnesota and former Saturday Night Live writer and performer.

3. ASTROPHYSI­CS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY by Neil deGrasse Tyson. A straightfo­rward, easy-to-understand introducti­on to the universe.

4. I CAN’T MAKE THIS UP by Kevin Hart with Neil Strauss. The comedian’s personal and profession­al life.

5. THEFT BY FINDING by David Sedaris. Excerpts from the writer’s diaries, 1977-2002.

6. BILL O’REILLY’S LEGENDS AND LIES: THE CIVIL WAR by David Fisher. Stories of the Civil War; a companion to the Fox historical docudrama.

7. HILLBILLY ELEGY by J. D. Vance. A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working class through his childhood.

8. HUNGER by Roxane Gay. The fiction writer and essayist’s memoir about life as a “woman of size.”

9. OPTION B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant. Sandberg’s experience after her husband’s sudden death and Grant’s psychologi­cal research combine to provide insight on facing adversity and building resilience.

10. HUE 1968 by Mark Bowden. An account of the battle that changed the American approach to Vietnam.

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