BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

1. A BETTER MAN by Louise Penny. The 15th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. The search for a missing girl is imperiled by rising floodwaters across the province.

2. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens. In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survives alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

3. THE GIRL WHO LIVED TWICE by David Lagercrantz. Mikael Blomkvist helps Lisbeth Salander put her past behind her in the latest installment of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series.

4. THE DARK SIDE by Danielle Steel. Painful childhood memories surface for Zoe Morgan when she has a child of her own.

5. THE INN by James Patterson and Candice Fox. A former Boston police detective who is now an innkeeper must shield a seaside town from a crew of criminals.

6. ONE GOOD DEED by David Baldacci. A World War II veteran on parole must find the real killer in a small town or face going back to jail.

7. THE NICKEL BOYS by Colson Whitehead. Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crowera reform school in ways that impact them decades later.

8. THE TURN OF THE KEY by Ruth Ware. A nanny working in a technology-laden house in Scotland goes to jail when one of the children dies.

9. THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides. Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.

10. OLD BONES by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. An expedition into the Sierra Nevada uncovers new twists to the events involving the Donner party during the 1840s.

Nonfiction

1. EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.

2. BECOMING by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House, and how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.

3. RADICALS, RESISTANCE AND REVENGE by Jeanine Pirro. The Fox News host posits those she labels anti-Trump conspirators have committed possible crimes and a plot to destroy liberty.

4. THE PIONEERS by David McCullough. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters.

5. HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X. Kendi. A primer for creating a more just and equitable society through identifying and opposing racism.

6. THREE WOMEN by Lisa Taddeo. The inequality of female desire is explored through the sex lives of a homemaker, a high school student and a restaurant owner.

7. MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE by Lori Gottlieb. A psychotherapist gains unexpected insights when she becomes another therapist’s patient.

8. TRICK MIRROR by Jia Tolentino. Nine essays delving into late capitalism, online engagement and the author’s personal history.

9. THANK YOU FOR MY SERVICE by Mat Best with Ross Patterson and Nils Parker. An inside look into military life by the YouTube personality and former Army Ranger.

10. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by TaNehisi Coates. Winner of the 2015 National Book Award for nonfiction. A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story, framed as a letter to the author’s teenage son.

Paperback fiction

1. THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt.

2. THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris.

3. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN by Garth Stein.

4. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng. 5. BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate.

Paperback nonfiction

1. BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah.

2. SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.

3. WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo.

4. JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson.

5. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk.