Houston Chronicle Sunday

BESTSELLER­S

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Fiction

1. A Slow Fire Burning

by Paula Hawkins. Three women come under scrutiny when a young man is found gruesomely murdered on a London houseboat.

2. Billy Summers

by Stephen King. A killer for hire who takes out only bad guys seeks redemption as he does one final job.

3. The Madness of Crowds

by Louise Penny. The 17th book in the “Chief Inspector Gamache” series. Gamache is tasked with providing security for a statistics professor whose views are repulsive to him.

4. The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig. Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilit­ies of the lives one could have lived.

5. The Noise

by James Patterson and J.D. Barker. A strange vibration rises out of a forest near Mount Hood.

6. The Paper Palace

by Miranda Cowley Heller. After an extramarit­al dalliance, Elle must choose between her husband and her childhood love.

7. Malibu Rising

by Taylor Jenkins Reid. An epic party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings.

8. The Last Thing He Told Me

by Laura Dave. Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationsh­ip.

9. Complicati­ons

by Danielle Steel. On a September night, guests at the reopening of an exclusive Paris hotel experience love, tragedy and political intrigue.

10. We Were Never Here

by Andrea Bartz. Will the secrets Emily shares with Kristen about violent incidents in the past ruin her life?

Nonfiction

1. American Marxism

by Mark R. Levin. The Fox News host gives his take on the Green New Deal, critical race theory and social activism.

2. The Afghanista­n Papers

by Craig Whitlock. An account of how three successive presidents and their military commanders handled America’s invasion of Afghanista­n after 9/11.

3. The Long Slide

by Tucker Carlson. A collection of previously published essays from 1995 to 2016 by the Fox News host.

4. Greenlight­s

by Matthew McConaughe­y. The Academy Awardwinni­ng actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the past 35 years.

5. Untamed

by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.

6. Caste

by Isabel Wilkerson. The Pulitzer Prize winner examines aspects of caste systems across civilizati­ons and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.

7. What Happened to You?

by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey. An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigat­e it.

8. Crying in H Mart

by Michelle Zauner. The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish American father, and leader of the indie-rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity.

9. Think Again

by Adam Grant. An examinatio­n of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

10. The Reckoning

by Mary L. Trump. The author of “Too Much and Never Enough” examines potential trauma caused by current and historical events.

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