BESTSELLERS

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. Camino Winds by John Grisham. The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead after a hurricane hits

Camino Island.

3. If It Bleeds by Stephen King. Four novellas: “Mr. Harrigan’s

Phone,” “The Life of

Chuck,” “Rat” and “If It

Bleeds.” 4. Walk the Wire by David Baldacci. The sixth book in the “Memory

Man” series. Decker and

Jamison investigate a murder in a North Dakota town in a fracking boom.

5. The 20th Victim by Maxine James Paetro. Patterson The 20th and book in the “Women’s

Murder Club” series. Lindsay Boxer looks into the murders of disreputable people in three separate cities. 6. Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner. Daphne Berg’s former best friend asks her to be the maid of honor at her wedding in Cape Cod. 7. American Dirt by bookseller Jeanine flees Cummins. Mexico A for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel. 8. The Last Trial by Scott Turow. An 85year-old defense lawyer puts off his retirement to aid a Nobel Prize winner in medicine, who is accused of insider trading, fraud and murder. 9. All Adults Here by Emma Straub. A repressed memory triggers Astrid Strick to weigh the outcomes of her parenting of her now-grown children. 10. The Book of

Longings by Sue Monk Kidd. A scholarly young woman named Ana meets an 18-year-old Jesus and becomes caught up in a confluence of dangers.

Nonfiction

1. Untamed by Glennon Doyle. The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. 2. Becoming by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent. 3. The Splendid and the

Vile by Erik Larson. An examination of the leadership of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. 4. Educated by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university. 5. Plague of Corruption by Judy Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively. The controversial virologist gives her account of her work over nearly four decades. 6. The Lincoln

Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and

Josh Mensch. How

Allan Pinkerton, along with undercover agents, thwarted a lesser-known assassination attempt of

Abraham Lincoln in

Baltimore in 1861. 7. Mentality The Mamba by Kobe Bryant. Various skills and techniques used on the court by the late Los Angeles Lakers player. 8. 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. 9. Fortitude by Dan Crenshaw. The

Texas congressman and former Navy SEAL prescribes ways to overcome adversity. 10. The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan. The actress starts a family, transplants to a working farm and revitalizes a candy store in

Rhinebeck, New York.