BEST-SELLERS
Fiction
1. The Underground Railroad: By Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels. 2. Sting: By Sandra Brown. A hired killer and a woman he kidnapped join forces to elude the FBI agents and others who are searching for her corrupt brother. 3. Curious Minds: By Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton. The first of a new series featuring Emerson Knight, an eccentric millionaire, and Riley Moon, an analyst at a megabank. 4. 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. 5. Truly Madly Guilty: By Liane Moriarty. Three couples at a backyard barbecue gone wrong. 6. Damaged: By Lisa Scottoline. In the 15th Rosato & DiNunzio novel, Mary DiNunzio defends a dyslexic fifth-grader accused of attacking a school aide. 7. 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. 8. All the Light We Cannot See: By Anthony Doerr. The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II. 9. The Nightingale: By Kristin Hannah. Two sisters in World War II France: one struggling to survive in the countryside, the other joining the Resistance in Paris. 10. The Girls: By Emma Cline. In the summer of 1969, a California teenager is drawn to a Manson-like cult.
Nonfiction
1. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo: By Amy Schumer. Humorous personal essays by the comedian, actor and writer. 2. 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. 3. Armageddon: By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. The political strategist offers a game plan for how to defeat Hillary Clinton. 4. 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. 5. Between the World and Me: By Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America. 6. Hamilton: The Revolution: By Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter. The libretto of the awardwinning musical, with backstage photos, a production history and interviews with the cast. 7. 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. 8. White Trash: By Nancy Isenberg. The role of the white poor in American history. 9. Grit: By Angela Duckworth. A psychologist says passion and perseverance are the keys to success. 10. American Heiress: By Jeffrey Toobin. The story of Patty Hearst’s kidnapping in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army, her crimes and her trial.