Houston Chronicle Sunday

BEST-SELLERS

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Fiction

1. Escape Clause: By John Sandford. Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehensi­on must deal with the theft of tigers from the local zoo. 2. Two by Two: By Nicholas Sparks. A man who became a single father when his marriage and business collapsed learns to take a chance on a new love. 3. Small Great Things: By Jodi Picoult. A medical crisis entangles a black nurse, a white-supremacis­t father and a white lawyer. 4. The Obsidian Chamber: By Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. While FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast is believed dead, his ward is kidnapped. 5. Vince Flynn: Order to Kill: By Kyle Mills. Flynn’s character, CIA operative Mitch Rapp, uncovers a dangerous Russian plot. Flynn died in 2013. 6. The Secret History of Twin Peaks: By Mark Frost. An amplificat­ion of the world of the 1990-91 TV series “Twin Peaks” by the show’s co-creator, in preparatio­n for new episodes to be aired on Showtime in 2017. 7. Commonweal­th: By Ann Patchett. Five decades in the lives of two families — parents, children, siblings, stepchildr­en — remade by divorce.

8. 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.

9. Home: By Harlan Coben. Myron Bolitar and his friend Win locate a boy who was kidnapped 10 years earlier; the 11th Myron Bolitar novel.

10. Today Will Be Different: By Maria Semple. A calamitous day in the life of a cynical Seattle transplant from the author of “Where’d You Go, Bernadette.”

Nonfiction

1. The Magnolia Story: By Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with Mark Dagostino. The lives of the couple who star in the HGTV show “Fixer Upper.” 2. Killing the Rising Sun: By Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the final years of World War II. 3. Born to Run: By Bruce Springstee­n. The singer-songwriter’s autobiogra­phy. 4. Buffering: By Hannah Hart. A memoir by the host of the YouTube show “My Drunk Kitchen” focuses on her challengin­g childhood. 5. 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. 6. Filthy Rich: By James Patterson and John Connolly with Tim Malloy. The story of a South Florida financier convicted of soliciting sex from underage girls. 7. A Life in Parts: By Bryan Cranston. The actor discusses his relationsh­ips and career. 8. Love Warrior: By Glennon Doyle Melton. After her husband confesses to multiple infideliti­es, a woman who has overcome bulimia and alcoholism struggles to grow — and so does he. 9. Hero of the Empire: By Candice Millard. Young Winston Churchill’s adventures in Africa during the Boer War, including an escape from captivity in 1899. 10. Upstream: By Mary Oliver. The poet’s essays, many close observatio­ns of the natural world.

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