BEST-SELLERS
Fiction
1. Never Never: By James Patterson and Candice Fox. Harriet Blue, a Sydney sex-crimes detective, is sent to the outback (the never never) to investigate the disappearance of a mine worker. The first in a series. 2. The Underground Railroad: By Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels. 3. The Whistler: By John Grisham. A whistleblower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the mob and Indian casinos. 4. 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. 5. The Girl Before: By J.P. Delaney. A sadistic architect builds a modern house that controls its (young, female) inhabitants in this psychological thriller, soon to be a major motion picture. 6. The Mistress: By Danielle Steel. The beautiful mistress of a Russian oligarch falls in love with an artist and yearns for freedom. 7. The Chemist: By Stephenie Meyer. A specialist in chemically controlled torture, on the run from her former employers, takes on one last job. 8. Small Great Things: By Jodi Picoult. A medical crisis entangles a black nurse, a white-supremacist father and a white lawyer. 9. Power Game: By Christine Feehan. A supersoldier with enhanced abilities teams up with a genetically engineered spy in this GhostWalker novel. 10. Death’s Mistress: By Terry Goodkind. The first book of a series, the Nicci Chronicles, centers on a character from the Sword of Truth fantasy series.
Nonfiction
1. 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. 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. Three Days in January: By Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address and his role in Kennedy transition. 4. 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.” 5. The Book of Joy: By the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams. A discussion between two spiritual leaders about how to find joy in the face of suffering. 6. 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. 7. The Lost City of the Monkey God: By Douglas Preston. A frightening search for a lost civilization in the Honduran rain forest. 8. Hidden Figures: By Margot Lee Shetterly. The black female mathematicians who worked at then segregated NASA. The basis of the movie. 9. 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. 10. Between the World and Me: By Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America.