BEST-SELLERS
Fiction
1. 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.
2. TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin. Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.
3. I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU by Rebecca Makkai. A film professor and podcaster is invited back to teach a course at the boarding school where her roommate was murdered.
4. SOMEONE ELSE’S SHOES by Jojo Moyes. Drastic changes and a pair of six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes shake up the lives of two women.
5. DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver. A re-imagining of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
6. MURDER YOUR EMPLOYER by Rupert Holmes. At the McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, students learn how to “delete” someone.
7. BURNER by Mark Greaney. The 12th book in the Gray Man series. Stolen records, the Russian mafia and the CIA complicate things for Court Gentry and his lover.
8. THE LAST KINGDOM by Steve Berry. The 17th book in the Cotton Malone series. Malone and Daniels battle adversaries in Bavaria.
9. THE WRITING RETREAT by Julia Bartz. An aspiring writer goes on a writing retreat that might have life-changing or life-ending outcomes.
10. THE HOUSE IN THE PINES by Ana Reyes. Seven years after witnessing her best friend drop dead, Maya returns to her Berkshires hometown to piece together what happened.
Nonfiction
1. 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.
2. IT’S OK TO BE ANGRY ABOUT CAPITALISM by Bernie Sanders with John Nichols. The Vermont senator depicts the impact capitalism has on key areas of our lives and ways to address this.
3. I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy. The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.
4. THE LIGHT WE CARRY by Michelle Obama. The former first lady shares personal stories and the tools she uses to deal with difficult situations.
5. WALK THE BLUE LINE by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Chris Mooney. A collection of stories about police officers.
6. LOVE, PAMELA by Pamela Anderson. The actress and activist details her childhood, rise to fame and the ways she is reclaiming the narrative of her life.
7. THE NAZI CONSPIRACY by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch. The story of a Nazi plot to kill President Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill.
8. THE 1619 PROJECT edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein. Viewing America’s entanglement with slavery and its legacy, in essays adapted and expanded from The New York Times Magazine.
9. BITTERSWEET by Susan Cain. The author of “Quiet” suggests ways to embrace loss and suffering within ourselves and others.
10. ALL MY KNOTTED-UP LIFE by Beth Moore. The founder of Living Proof Ministries details key moments from her life and her 2018 break with the Southern Baptist movement.