Houston Chronicle Sunday

BEST-SELLERS

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Fiction

1. The Great Alone: By Kristin Hannah. A former prisoner of war returns from Vietnam and moves his family to Alaska, where they face tough conditions.

2. Fifty Fifty: By James Patterson and Candice Fox. Detective Harriet Blue tries to clear her brother’s name and save a small Australian town from being massacred.

3. The Woman in the Window: By A.J. Finn. A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescripti­on drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem town house.

4. An American Marriage: By Tayari Jones. A newlywed couple’s relationsh­ip is tested when the husband is sentenced to 12 years in prison.

5. Little Fires Everywhere: By Celeste Ng. An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.

6. Raspberry Danish Murder: By Joanne Fluke. After her husband disappears, Hannah Swensen Barton searches for a killer while trying to fulfill holiday baking orders.

7. Before We Were Yours: By Lisa Wingate. A South Carolina lawyer learns about the questionab­le practices of a Tennessee orphanage.

8. Still Me: By Jojo Moyes. Louisa Clark moves to New York and is torn between high society and the life she enjoys at a vintage clothing store.

9. The Hush: By John Hart. Johnny Merrimon fights to keep the 6,000 acres of once-sacred land in North Carolina he inherited.

10. Origin: By Dan Brown. A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.

Nonfiction

1. Fire and Fury: By Michael Wolff. A journalist offers an inside account of the first year of the Trump White House.

2. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: By Michelle McNamara. The late true-crime journalist’s search for the serial murderer and rapist known as “the Golden State Killer.”

3. Skin in the Game: By Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The engineerin­g professor argues that a willingnes­s to accept one’s own risks is an important part of success.

4. Educated: By Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalis­ts, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for college.

5. Obama: By Pete Souza. More than 300 pictures of the former president by his White House photograph­er, with behind-the-scenes stories.

6. Enlightenm­ent Now: By Steven Pinker. A case for using reason, science and humanism to counter pessimisti­c views of Western civilizati­on.

7. Astrophysi­cs for People in a Hurry: By Neil deGrasse Tyson. A straightfo­rward, easy-toundersta­nd introducti­on to the universe.

8. Killers of the Flower Moon: By David Grann. The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians.

9. The Last Black Unicorn: By Tiffany Haddish. The comedian recounts growing up in South Central Los Angeles and finding success after a period of homelessne­ss.

10. Born a Crime: By Trevor Noah. A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”

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