BESTSELLERS
Fiction 1. Ready Player Two
by Ernest Cline. In a sequel to “Ready Player One,” Wade Watts discovers a technological advancement and goes on a newquest.
2. A Time for Mercy
by John Grisham. The third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990.
3. Deadly Cross
by James Patterson. The 28th book in the Alex Cross series. An investigation of a double homicide sends Alex Cross to Alabama.
4. The Return
by Nicholas Sparks. A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life.
5. The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett. The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine.
6. Daylight
by David Baldacci. FBI agent Atlee Pine’s search for her twin sister overlaps with a military investigator’s hunt for someone involved in a global conspiracy.
7. Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens. In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes amurder suspect.
8. The Law of Innocence
by Michael Connelly. The sixth book in the Mickey Haller series. Haller defends himself when police find the body of a former client in his car’s trunk. 9. The Awakening by Nora Roberts. The first book in the Dragon Heart Legacy series. Breen Kelly travels through a portal in Ireland to a land of faeries and mermaids.
10. The Sentinel
by Lee Child and Andrew Child. Jack Reacher intervenes on an ambush in Tennessee and uncovers a conspiracy.
Nonfiction 1. A Promised Land
by Barack Obama. In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama offers personal reflections on his formative years and pivotal moments through his first term.
2. Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey. The Academy Awardwinning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the past 35 years.
3. Bag Man
by Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz. The MSNBC host gives an account of the 1973 investigation of then Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and its impact on politics and the media.
4. The Last Days of John Lennon
by James Patterson with Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge. The story of the killing of the former member of the Beatles by Mark David Chapman in 1980 and interviews with some of Lennon’s friends and associates.
5. World of Wonders
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. In a collection of essays, the poet celebrates various aspects of the natural world and its inhabitants.
6. Becoming
by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.
7. Caste
by Isabel Wilkerson. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.
8. Untamed
by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.
9. The Splendid and the Vile
by Erik Larson. An examination of the leadership of the prime minister Winston Churchill.
10. Is This Anything?
by Jerry Seinfeld. The comedian shares material he collected in an accordion folder over the past 45 years.