Houston Chronicle Sunday

BEST-SELLERS

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Fiction

1. The Whistler: By John Grisham. A whistleblo­wer alerts a Florida investigat­or to judicial corruption involving the mob and Indian casinos. 2. Cross the Line: By James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross and his wife, Bree, team up to catch a killer causing chaos in Washington, D.C. 3. 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. 4. The Undergroun­d Railroad: By Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels. 5. Tom Clancy: True Faith and Allegiance: By Mark Greaney. Jack Ryan Jr., working for a secret organizati­on, seeks to prevent complicate­d terrorist strikes set in motion by a hacker. Clancy died in 2013. 6. No Man’s Land: By David Baldacci. John Puller, a special agent with the Army, searches for the truth about his mother, who disappeare­d 30 years ago. 7. Small Great Things: By Jodi Picoult. A medical crisis entangles a black nurse, a white-supremacis­t father and a white lawyer. 8. Night School: By Lee Child. Jack Reacher, still in the Army, becomes involved in an investigat­ion with elite agents from the FBI and CIA. 9. Turbo Twenty-Three: By Janet Evanovich. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum juggles the investigat­ion of a crime in an ice-cream factory and the two men in her life. 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. 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. 2. The Undoing Project: By Michael Lewis. How psychologi­sts Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky upended assumption­s about the decision-making process and invented the field of behavioral economics. 3. 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.” 4. Born to Run: By Bruce Springstee­n. The singer-songwriter’s autobiogra­phy. 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. Settle for More: By Megyn Kelly. The anchor of Fox News’ “The Kelly File” discusses the personal and profession­al challenges she has faced. 7. 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. 8. All the Gallant Men: By Donald Stratton with Ken Gire. An eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor by a 94-year-old veteran. 9. Talking As Fast As I Can: By Lauren Graham. Essays by the star of “Gilmore Girls” (both the original and the miniseries) and “Parenthood.” 10. Shaken: By Tim Tebow with A.J. Gregory. The Heisman Trophy winner writes about overcoming obstacles.

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