BEST-SELLERS
Fiction
1. THE ROOSTER BAR by John Grisham. Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.
2. ORIGIN by Dan Brown. A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.
3. DEEP FREEZE by John Sandford. Virgil Flowers is called to investigate in Trippton, Minn., when a local bank’s president is found dead in a nearly frozen river.
4. SLEEPING BEAUTIES by Stephen King and Owen King. Women who fall asleep become shrouded in mysterious cocoons while the men battle one another.
5. UNCOMMON TYPE by Tom Hanks. Seventeen short stories, each incorporating a typewriter, by the Academy Award-winning actor.
6. A COLUMN OF FIRE by Ken Follett. A pair of lovers find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict while Queen Elizabeth fights to maintain her throne.
7. QUICK & DIRTY by Stuart Woods. New York lawyer Stone Barrington is hired to recover a stolen Van Gogh painting.
8. FAIRYTALE by Danielle Steel. Tragedy and unexpected dangers come to life at a Napa Valley winery. 9. STRANGE WEATHER by Joe Hill. A quartet of novellas involving the horrific and the supernatural. 10. THE GIRL WHO TAKES AN EYE FOR AN EYE by David Lagercrantz. Stieg Larsson’s character Lisbeth Salander seeks to uncover the secrets of her childhood.
Nonfiction
1. LEONARDO DA VINCI by Walter Isaacson. A biography of the Italian Renaissance polymath which connects his work in various disciplines. 2. SISTERS FIRST by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush. The twin daughters of former president George W. Bush offer their account of growing up in the public eye. 3. ANDREW JACKSON AND THE MIRACLE
OF NEW ORLEANS by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. Major General Jackson takes on the British in Louisiana.
4. KILLING ENGLAND by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. Major events and battles during the Revolutionary War are told from several perspectives.
5. GRANT by Ron Chernow. A biography of the Union general of the Civil War and twoterm president of the United States.
6. WHAT HAPPENED by Hillary Rodham Clinton. An inside look at her campaign and how she recovered in its aftermath.
7. WE’RE GOING TO NEED MORE WINE by Gabrielle Union. Essays by the actress and activist on love, step-parenting and living beyond personal tragedy. 8. THE STORM BEFORE THE STORM by Mike Duncan. How corruption, economic inequality and ethnic prejudices were early factors in the fall of the Roman Empire. 9. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY by Neil deGrasse Tyson. A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the universe. 10. AMERICAN RADICAL by Tamer Elnoury with Kevin Maurer. The memoir of a Muslim American undercover agent for the FBI’s counter-terrorism unit.