BEST-SELLERS
Fiction
1. READY PLAYER TWO by Ernest Cline. In a sequel to “Ready Player One,” Wade Watts discovers a technological advancement and goes on a new quest.
2. A TIME FOR MERCY by John Grisham. The third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990.
3. DEADLY CROSS by James Patterson. The 28th book in the Alex Cross series. An investigation of a double homicide sends Alex Cross to Alabama. 4. THE RETURN by Nicholas Sparks. A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life.
5. THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett. The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity.
6. DAYLIGHT by David Baldacci. FBI agent Atlee Pine’s search for her twin sister overlaps with a military investigator’s hunt for someone involved in a global conspiracy.
7. 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.
8. THE LAW OF INNOCENCE by Michael Connelly. The sixth book in the Mickey Haller series. Haller defends himself when police find the body of a former client in his car’s trunk.
9. THE AWAKENING by Nora Roberts. The first book in the Dragon Heart Legacy series. Breen Kelly travels through a portal in Ireland to a land of faeries and mermaids.
10. THE SENTINEL by Lee Child and Andrew Child. Jack Reacher intervenes on an ambush in Tennessee and uncovers a conspiracy.
Nonfiction
1. A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama. In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama offers personal reflections on his formative years and pivotal moments through his first term.
2. GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey. The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years. 3. BAG MAN by Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz. The MSNBC host gives an account of the 1973 investigation of then Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and its impact on politics and the media.
4. THE LAST DAYS OF JOHN LENNON by James Patterson with Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge. The story of the killing of the former member of the Beatles by Mark David Chapman in 1980 and interviews with some of Lennon’s friends and associates.
5. WORLD OF WONDERS by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. In a collection of essays, the poet celebrates various aspects of the natural world and its inhabitants.
6. BECOMING by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.
7. CASTE by Isabel Wilkerson. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.
8. UNTAMED by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. 9. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson. An examination of the leadership of the prime minister Winston Churchill.
10. IS THIS ANYTHING? by Jerry Seinfeld. The comedian shares material he collected in an accordion folder over the last 45 years.
Paperback fiction
1. HOME BODY by Rupi Kaur.
2. THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT by Walter Tevis. 3. THEN SHE WAS GONE by Lisa Jewell. 4. THE OVERSTORY by Richard Powers. 5. MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur.
Paperback nonfiction
1. MY OWN WORDS by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams. 2. HILLBILLY ELEGY by J.D. Vance. 3. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk. 4. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall
Kimmerer. 5. SAPIENS