BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

1. A GAMBLING MAN by David Baldacci. Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town.

2. THE HILL WE CLIMB by Amanda Gorman. The poem read on President Joe Biden’s inauguration day, by the youngest poet to write and perform an inaugural poem.

3. OCEAN PREY by John Sandford. The 31st book in the Prey series. When federal officers are killed, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to investigate matters.

4. THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah. As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading west.

5. THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig. Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived. 6. THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE by V.E. Schwab. A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.

7. LARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo Ishiguro. An “Artificial Friend” named Klara is purchased to serve as a companion to an ailing 14-yearold girl.

8. LOVER UNVEILED by J.R. Ward. The 19th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Sahvage and Mae fight against what she unleashed.

9. THE RED BOOK by James Patterson and David Ellis. The second book in the Black Book thriller series. Chicago detective Billy Harney investigates his own past.

10. 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.

Nonfiction

1. OUT OF MANY, ONE by George W. Bush. Forty-three portraits by the former president of men and women who have immigrated to the United States.

2. CRYING IN H MART by Michelle Zauner. The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish American father,and leader of indie rock project Japanese Breakfast describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer. 3. GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey. The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.

4. ON THE HOUSE by John Boehner. The former speaker of the House reflects on his time in Washington, key political figures and the current state of the Republican Party.

5. CASTE by Isabel Wilkerson. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.

6. BROKEN HORSES by Brandi Carlile. The six-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter recounts difficulties during her formative years and her hard-won successes. 7. THE CODE BREAKER by Walter Isaacson. How the Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues invented CRISPR, a tool that can edit DNA.

8. THINK AGAIN by Adam Grant. An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

9. UNTAMED by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.

10. BLOOD AND TREASURE by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. A depiction of frontiersman Daniel Boone.

Paperback fiction

1. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens.

2. THE SONG OF ACHILLES by Madeline Miller.

3. THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn.

4. LATER by Stephen King.

5. HOME BODY by Rupi Kaur.

Paperback nonfiction

1. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk.

2. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

3. BECOMING by Michelle Obama.

4. MY GRANDMOTHER’S HANDS by Resmaa Menakem.

5. WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo.