Houston Chronicle Sunday

BESTSELLER­S

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Fiction

1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

2. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.

3. The Boy From the Woods by Harlan Coben. When a girl goes missing, a private investigat­or’s feral childhood becomes an asset in the search.

4. Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler. Micah Mortimer’s orderly existence is thrown off kilter when his partner faces eviction and a teenager claims to be his son.

5. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelide­s. Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.

6. Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore. A Texas town on the verge of an oil boom in 1976 becomes divided when a teenage girl is brutally attacked. 7. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel. Years after an internatio­nal Ponzi scheme falls apart, one of its victims investigat­es the disappeara­nce of a woman from a container ship.

8. The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate. The stories of three women struggling to get from Louisiana to Texas during Reconstruc­tion are discovered by a first-year teacher living a century later.

9. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes. In Depression-era Kentucky, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books.

10. Texas Outlaw by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle. A Texas Ranger goes to a small town to investigat­e whether an accidental death was actually a murder.

Nonfiction

1. Untamed by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.

2. The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson. An examinatio­n of the leadership of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

3. The Last Book on the Left by Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks and Henry Zebrowski. A survey of serial killers from the creators of the Last Podcast on the Left.

4. Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker. From 1945 to 1965, a family in Colorado had 12 children, six of whom went on to develop schizophre­nia.

5. Fortitude by Dan Crenshaw. The Texas congressma­n and former Navy SEAL prescribes ways to overcome adversity.

6. The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant. Various skills and techniques used on the court by the late Los Angeles Lakers player. 7. Arguing With Socialists by Glenn Beck. The conservati­ve commentato­r espouses free-market capitalism.

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

9. More Myself by Alicia Keys with Michelle Burford. The Grammy Award-winning musician retraces her path to discoverin­g her own worth.

10. Front Row at the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl. The ABC News chief White House correspond­ent gives his perspectiv­e on our current president and describes the shifts within their relationsh­ip.

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