BEST-SELLERS
Fiction
1. CAMINO WINDS by John Grisham. The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead after a hurricane hits Camino Island.
2. IF IT BLEEDS by Stephen King. Four novellas: Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck,
Rat, and If It Bleeds.
3.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.
4. WALK THE WIRE by David Baldacci. The sixth book in the Memory Man series. Decker and Jamison investigate a murder in a North Dakota town in a fracking boom.
5. THE BOOK OF LONGINGS by Sue Monk Kidd. A scholarly young woman named Ana meets an 18-year-old Jesus and becomes caught up in a confluence of dangers.
6. THE WEDDING DRESS by Danielle Steel. The triumphs and losses of one family over the last century are recounted as a symbolic piece of apparel gets handed down through the generations.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides. Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
10. THE END OF OCTOBER by Lawrence Wright. Henry Parsons, a microbiologist and epidemiologist, goes to Indonesia to check out a deadly virus that soon will affect the entire planet.
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. 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.
4. BECOMING by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.
5. EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university. 6. THE MAMBA MENTALITY by Kobe Bryant. Various skills and techniques used on the court by the late Los Angeles Lakers player.
7. 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.” 8. 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.
9. MORE MYSELF by Alicia Keys with Michelle Burford. The Grammy Award-winning musician retraces her path to discovering her own worth.
10. THE LAST BOOK ON THE LEFT by Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks and Henry Zebrowski. A survey of serial killers from the creators of the Last Podcast on the Left.
Paperback fiction
1. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste
Ng. 2. NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney.
3. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn. 4. THEN SHE WAS GONE by Lisa Jewell. 5. BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate.
Paperback nonfiction
1. THE GREAT INFLUENZA by John M. Barry.
2. A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Sonia
Purnell. 3. SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.
4. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk. 5. BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah.