Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

BEST-SELLERS

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Fiction

1. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens. In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survives alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

2. MASKED PREY by John Sandford. The 30th book in the Prey series. Washington politician­s ask Lucas Davenport to look into someone who is targeting their children.

3. AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins. A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.

4. THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelide­s. Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.

5. THE BOY FROM THE WOODS by Harlan Coben. When a girl goes missing, a private investigat­or’s feral childhood becomes an asset in the search.

6. THE GLASS HOTEL by Emily St. John Mandel. Years after an internatio­nal Ponzi scheme falls apart, one of its victims investigat­es the disappeara­nce of a woman from a container ship.

7. IN FIVE YEARS by Rebecca Serle. A Manhattan lawyer finds herself confrontin­g a vision she had when elements of it come to life on schedule.

8. REDHEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD by Anne Tyler. Micah Mortimer’s orderly existence is thrown off kilter when his partner faces eviction and a teenager claims to be his son.

9. THE GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes. In Depression-era Kentucky, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books.

10. VALENTINE by Elizabeth Wetmore. A Texas town on the verge of an oil boom in 1976 becomes divided when a teenage girl is brutally attacked.

Nonfiction

1. UNTAMED by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. 2. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson. An examinatio­n of the leadership of the prime minister Winston Churchill.

3. THE HOUSE OF KENNEDY by James Patterson and Cynthia Fagen. A look at the achievemen­ts of the political family and what has been called “the Kennedy curse.” 4. FRONT ROW AT THE TRUMP SHOW by Jonathan Karl. The ABC News chief White House correspond­ent gives his perspectiv­e on our current president and describes the shifts within their relationsh­ip.

5. HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD by Robert Kolker. From 1945 to 1965, a family in Colorado had 12 children, six of whom went on to develop schizophre­nia.

6. EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalis­ts, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university. 7. THE MAMBA MENTALITY by Kobe Bryant. Various skills and techniques used on the court by the late Los Angeles Lakers player.

8. BECOMING by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent. 9. ABOUT YOUR FATHER AND OTHER CELEBRITIE­S I HAVE KNOWN by Peggy Rowe. Stories of living with a minimalist husband, cheering her son’s celebrity and having a late career as a commercial spokespers­on. 10. ARGUING WITH SOCIALISTS by Glenn Beck. The conservati­ve commentato­r espouses free-market capitalism.

Paperback fiction

1. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng. 2. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn. 3. CIRCE by Madeline Miller.

4. THEN SHE WAS GONE by Lisa Jewell.

5. THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather

Morris.

Paperback nonfiction

1. THE GREAT INFLUENZA by John M. Barry.

2. BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah.

3. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk. 4. A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Sonia

Purnell. 5. WOW, NO THANK YOU by Samantha Irby.

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