BEST-SELLERS

Fiction 1. A Great Reckoning: By Louise Penny. An instructor at the police academy is found murdered, perhaps by one of the cadets favored by Armand Gamache, the retired homicide chief of the Sûreté du Québec. 2. The Underground Railroad: By Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels. 3. Rushing Waters: By Danielle Steel. Six people cope with a hurricane in New York City. 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. The Nix: By Nathan Hill. An aspiring writer, who spends too much time playing video games, investigates the past of the mother who abandoned him. 6. Truly Madly Guilty: By Liane Moriarty. Tense turning points for three couples at a backyard barbecue gone wrong. 7. 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. 8. The Jealous Kind: By James Lee Burke. A coming-of-age story set in 1952 Houston, featuring a member of the Holland family. 9. Sting: By Sandra Brown. A hired killer and a woman he kidnapped join forces to elude FBI agents and others who are searching for her corrupt brother. 10. 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. 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. Between the World and Me: By Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America. 4. When Breath Becomes Air: By Paul Kalanithi. A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at age 36. 5. Armageddon: By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. The political strategist offers a game plan for how to defeat Hillary Clinton. 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. The Perfect Horse: By Elizabeth Letts. The attempt, in the closing days of World War II, to rescue purebred horses raised for Hitler. 8. Grit: By Angela Duckworth. A psychologist says passion and perseverance are the keys to success. 9. White Trash: By Nancy Isenberg. The role of the white poor in American history. 10. 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.