BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

1. INTO THE WATER by Paula Hawkins. In this psychological thriller by the author of The Girl on the Train, women are found drowned in a river in an English town.

2. NO MIDDLE NAME by Lee Child. A complete collection of Jack Reacher stories.

3. 16TH SEDUCTION by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. In San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club face their toughest case yet.

4. SAME BEACH, NEXT YEAR by Dorothea Benton. Two couples form a lifelong friendship during annual reunions on one of South Carolina’s barrier islands.

5. THE FIX by David Baldacci. Detective Amos Decker (Memory Man) witnesses a murder-suicide that turns out to be a matter of national security.

6. TESTIMONY by Scott Turow. A former Illinois prosecutor joins the International Criminal Court to investigate a massacre in Bosnia. 7. GWENDY’S BUTTON BOX by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. King returns to Castle Rock, Maine, in this novella set in 1974.

8. GOLDEN PREY by John Sandford. Lucas Davenport, now a U.S. Marshal, pursues a thief who robbed a drug cartel and killed a child in Biloxi, Miss. 9. AGAINST ALL ODDS by Danielle Steel. A mother must learn to let her adult children make their own decisions.

10. FULL WOLF MOON by Lincoln Child. Could hikers in the Adirondacks have been killed by a werewolf?

Nonfiction

1. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY by Neil deGrasse Tyson. A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the universe.

2. OPTION B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant. Sandberg’s experience after her husband’s sudden death and Grant’s psychological research combine to provide insight on facing adversity and building resilience.

3. THE VANISHING AMERICAN ADULT by Ben Sasse. The Nebraska senator’s advice on how to raise resilient, responsible children.

4. HILLBILLY ELEGY by J. D. Vance. A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working class through his childhood.

5. PAPI by David Ortiz with Michael Holley. Looking back on 14 years with the Red Sox.

6. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by David Grann. The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. The fledgling FBI intervened, ineffectively.

7. SHATTERED by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. An examination of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

8. DEMOCRACY by Condoleezza Rice. The former secretary of state argues that the promotion of democracy should shape America’s foreign policy. 9. THE AMERICAN SPIRIT by David McCullough. A collection of speeches by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, focused on American values. 10. COACH WOODEN AND ME by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. A life-changing 50-year friendship that began during Abdul-Jabbar’s student days at UCLA.

Paperback fiction

1. THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood. 2. MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur.

3. THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware. 4. LILAC GIRLS by Martha Hall Kelly.

5. A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman.

Paperback nonfiction

1. ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder.

2. THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE by Diane Ackerman. 3. HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly.

4. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA

LACKS by Rebecca Skloot. 5. DEMOCRACY NOW! by Amy Goodman with David Goodman and Denis Moynihan.