Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

BEST-SELLERS

- Source: New York Times

Fiction

1. THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. President Jonathan Duncan takes on adversarie­s at home and abroad.

2. THE GOOD FIGHT by Danielle Steel. Meredith McKenzie embraces and eschews the values of her family of lawyers during the tumultuous 1960s.

3. CLOCK DANCE by Anne Tyler. A window into Willa Drake’s life over 50 years and how she adjusts to some of life’s surprises.

4. THE OUTSIDER by Stephen King. A detective investigat­es a seemingly wholesome member of the community when an 11-year-old boy’s body is found.

5. ALL WE EVER WANTED by Emily Giffin. A scandal sends members of two Nashville families into chaos.

6. THE PERFECT COUPLE by Elin Hilderbran­d. A body is found in Nantucket Harbor hours before a picture-perfect wedding.

7. THE SUMMER WIVES by Beatriz Williams. In the 1950s, a high-society schoolgirl falls for the son of a lighthouse keeper and, years later, tries to help undo his wrongful imprisonme­nt.

8. SPINNING SILVER by Naomi Novik. Miryem goes to collect debts owed to her father and winds up on a dangerous quest.

9. SPYMASTER by Brad Thor. The 18th book in the Scot Harvath series.

10. WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LULULEMONS by Lauren Weisberger. Emily Charlton plans a comeback from the suburbs.

Nonfiction

1. CALYPSO by David Sedaris. A collection of comedic stories on mortality, middle age and a beach house dubbed the Sea Section.

2. EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalis­ts leaves home for university.

3. THE SOUL OF AMERICA by Jon Meacham. The present political climate is contextual­ized through the lens of difficult moments in American history.

4. HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND by Michael Pollan. A personal account of how psychedeli­cs might help the mentally ill and people dealing with everyday challenges.

5. INDIANAPOL­IS by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic. A newly researched look into the sinking of the USS Indianapol­is, the story of the survivors and the fight to exonerate the court-martialed skipper.

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

7. BAD BLOOD by John Carreyrou. The rise and fall of the biotech startup Theranos.

8. THE PLOT TO DESTROY DEMOCRACY by Malcolm Nance. The former U.S. intelligen­ce officer describes the tools and techniques used by Vladimir Putin to affect the 2016 election.

9. BARRACOON by Zora Neale Hurston. A previously unpublishe­d first-person account of a man who was enslaved 50 years after the slave trade was banned.

10. I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK by Michelle McNamara. The author’s search for the Golden State Killer.

Paperback fiction

1. SHARP OBJECTS by Gillian Flynn.

2. CRAZY RICH ASIANS by Kevin Kwan.

3. ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by Gail Honeyman.

4. LESS by Andrew Sean Greer.

5. THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood.

Paperback nonfiction

1. KITCHEN CONFIDENTI­AL by Anthony Bourdain.

2. THINGS THAT MATTER by Charles Krauthamme­r.

3. SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.

4. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by David Grann.

5. HILLBILLY ELEGY by J.D. Vance.

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