Albany Times Union (Sunday)

BOOKS CALENDAR

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FICTION

1. DARK ANGEL, by John Sandford. The second book in the “Letty Davenport” series. Letty takes an undercover assignment that puts her in harm’s way with a group of hackers. Last week: — Weeks on list: 1

2. 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.

Last week: 10 Weeks on list: 40

3. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, by Bonnie Garmus. A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.

Last week: 3 Weeks on list: 23

4. YOURS TRULY, by Abby Jimenez. The quietly sexy new doctor in Dr. Briana Ortiz’s life offers to donate her brother a kidney and asks for a favor she can’t refuse.

Last week: — Weeks on list: 1

5. IT ENDS WITH US, by Colleen Hoover. A battered wife raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse.

Last week: 2 Weeks on list: 96

6. IT STARTS WITH US, by Colleen Hoover. In the sequel to “It Ends With Us,” Lily deals with her jealous ex-husband as she reconnects with her first boyfriend.

Last week: 1 Weeks on list: 26

7. LASSITER, by J.R. Ward. The 21st book in the “Black Dagger Brotherhoo­d” series. A fallen angel meets a mysterious female.

Last week: — Weeks on list: 1

8. THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. A movie icon recounts stories of her loves and career to a struggling magazine writer.

Last week: 5 Weeks on list: 93

9. HELLO BEAUTIFUL, by Ann Napolitano. In an homage to Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” a young man’s dark past resurfaces as he gets to know the family of his college sweetheart. Last week: 11 Weeks on list: 5

10. DAISY JONES & THE SIX, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. A fictional oral history charting the rise and fall of a ’70s rock ’n’ roll band.

Last week: 4 Weeks on list: 15

NONFICTION

1. OUTLIVE, by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford. A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.

Last week: 1 Weeks on list: 3

2. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van der Kolk. How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.

Last week: 2 Weeks on list: 138

3. 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 after losing her mother to cancer. Last week: 3 Weeks on list: 56

4. I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED, by Jennette

McCurdy. The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationsh­ip with her mother.

Weeks on list: 36

5. YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, by Maggie Smith. The poet explores her love for her children and commitment to herself after the end of her marriage.

Last week: — Weeks on list: 1

6. SPARE, by Prince Harry. The Duke of Sussex details his struggles with the royal family, loss of his mother, service in the British army and marriage to Meghan Markle.

Last week: 5 Weeks on list: 14

7. POVERTY, by AMERICA, by Matthew Desmond. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted” examines the ways in which affluent Americans keep poor people poor.

Last week: 7 Weeks on list: 4

8. I SWEAR, by Katie Porter. The Democratic congresswo­man from California describes challenges she faced before and during her time in office.

Last week: — Weeks on list: 1

9. IT. GOES. SO. FAST., by Mary Louise Kelly. The cohost of NPR’s “All Things Considered” reflects on the period of time when her father died and her older son would soon leave for college. Last week: — Weeks on list: 1

10. ON THE ORIGIN OF TIME, by Thomas Hertog. The cosmologis­t shares a theory, which he posited with Stephen Hawking, that gives a Darwinian perspectiv­e on the origins of our universe.

Last week: —

Last week: 4

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