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BESTSELLER­S

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Fiction 1. A Court of Silver Flames

by Sarah J. Maas. The fifth book in “A Court of Thorns and Roses” series. Nesta Archeron is forced into close quarters with a warrior named Cassian.

2. The Four Winds

by Kristin Hannah. As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West.

3. The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig. Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilit­ies of the lives one could have lived.

4. The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett. The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity, but their fates intertwine.

5. The Sanatorium

by Sarah Pearse. Elin Warner must find her estranged brother’s fiancée, who goes missing as a storm approaches a hotel that was once a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.

6. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

by V.E. Schwab. A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects Addie LaRue’s adventure across centuries.

7. 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.

8. The Russian

by James Patterson and James O. Born. The 13th book in the “Michael Bennett” series. An assassin killing a number of women might disrupt the detective’s wedding plans.

9. Faithless in Death

by J.D. Robb. The 52nd book of the “In Death” series. Eve Dallas investigat­es the murder of a young sculptor in the West Village.

10. Missing and Endangered

by J.A. Jance. The 19th book in the “Joanna Brady Mysteries” series. The Cochise County sheriff’s daughter becomes involved in a missing persons case.

Nonfiction

1. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

by Bill Gates. A prescripti­on for what business, government­s and individual­s can do to work toward zero emissions.

2. Just As I Am

by Cicely Tyson with Michelle Burford. The late iconic actress describes how she worked to change perception­s of Black women through her career choices.

3. The Sum of Us

by Heather McGhee. The chair of the board of the racial justice organizati­on Color of Change analyzes the impact of racism on the economy.

4. Walk in My Combat Boots

by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Chris Mooney. A collection of interviews with troops who fought overseas.

5. A Promised Land

by Barack Obama. In the first volume of his presidenti­al memoirs, Barack Obama offers personal reflection­s on his formative years and pivotal moments through his first term.

6. Caste

by Isabel Wilkerson. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizati­ons and reveals a rigid hierarchy in

America today.

7. Greenlight­s

by Matthew McConaughe­y. The Academy Awardwinni­ng actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the past 35 years.

8. Between Two Kingdoms

by Suleika Jaouad. The writer of the New York Times column “Life, Interrupte­d” chronicles her fight with cancer and an impactful road trip.

9. Untamed

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

10. Four Hundred Souls

edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. A compendium featuring 90 writers covering 400 years of African American history.

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