Houston Chronicle Sunday

BEST-SELLERS

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Fiction

1. Bullseye: By James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. While the president of the United States is in New York to meet with his Russian counterpar­t, Detective Michael Bennett must stop a team of assassins. 2. Sweet Tomorrows: By Debbie Macomber. The journeys of the characters at the Rose Harbor Inn come to a close in this last book of the series. 3. Truly Madly Guilty: By Liane Moriarty. Tense turning points for three couples at a backyard barbecue gone wrong. 4. The Undergroun­d Railroad: By Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels. 5. The Black Widow: By Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon, the Israeli art restorer and spy, recruits a doctor from Jerusalem to help capture a secret ISIS terrorist in France. 6. The Woman in Cabin 10: By Ruth Ware. A travel writer on a cruise is certain she has heard a body thrown overboard, but no one believes her. 7. The Girls: By Emma Cline. In the summer of 1969, a California teenager is drawn to a Manson-like cult. 8. Smooth Operator: By Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall. When former CIA agent Teddy Fay comes to the aid of a powerful woman, the nation’s fate is at stake. 9. Dark Carousel: By Christine Feehan. A woman falls for a rich bachelor vampire, but she also has a separate plan for which he is the bait. A Carpathian novel. 10. All the Light We Cannot See: By Anthony Doerr. The lives of a blind French girl and a gadgetobse­ssed German boy before and during World War II.

Nonfiction

1. Hillary’s America: By Dinesh D’Souza. The conservati­ve author and pundit warns of disaster if Hillary Clinton is elected president. 2. Liars: By Glenn Beck. The author says progressiv­e politician­s gain power and control by exploiting Americans’ fears. 3. Crisis of Character: By Gary J. Byrne with Grant M. Schmidt. A former Secret Service officer claims to have witnessed scandalous behavior by the Clintons. 4. Armageddon: By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. The political strategist offers a game plan for how to defeat Hillary Clinton. 5. Hamilton: The Revolution: By Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter. The libretto of the award-winning musical, with backstage photos, a production history and interviews with the cast. 6. Hillbilly Elegy: By J.D. Vance. A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working class through his own childhood in the Rust Belt. 7. When Breath Becomes Air: By Paul Kalanithi. A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36. 8. Between the World and Me: By Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America. 9. American Heiress: By Jeffrey Toobin. The story of Patty Hearst’s kidnapping in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army, her crimes and her trial. 10. The War on Cops: By Heather MacDonald. The author expands on her reporting on the “Ferguson effect,” the criminal-justice system and the Black Lives Matter movement.

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