Houston Chronicle Sunday

BESTSELLER­S

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FICTION 1. Invisible

By Danielle Steel. The daughter of a couple in a loveless marriage is discovered by a British filmmaker and thrust into the public eye.

2. 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.

3. Call Us What We Carry

By Amanda Gorman. A debut collection of poems on identity and history by the presidenti­al inaugural poet who wrote “The Hill We Climb.”

4. The Lincoln Highway

By Amor Towles. Two friends who escaped from a juvenile work farm take Emmett Watson on an unexpected journey to New York City in 1954.

5. The Last Thing He Told Me

By Laura Dave. Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationsh­ip.

6. The Judge’s List

By John Grisham. The second book in the “Whistler” series. Investigat­or Lacy Stoltz goes after a serial killer and closes in on a sitting judge.

7. Wish You Were Here

By Jodi Picoult. Diana O’Toole reevaluate­s her seemingly perfect life when a pandemic disrupts her vacation in the Galápagos Islands.

8. The Maid

By Nita Prose. When a wealthy man is found dead in his room, a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel becomes a lead suspect.

9. The Stranger in the Lifeboat

By Mitch Albom. After a ship explodes, 10 people struggling to survive pull a man who claims to be the Lord out of the sea.

10. Cloud Cuckoo Land

By Anthony Doerr. An interconne­cted cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future.

NONFICTION 1. Unthinkabl­e

By Jamie Raskin. The Maryland congressma­n describes leading the impeachmen­t effort against the former president shortly after his son’s death by suicide and the insurrecti­on at the Capitol.

2. The 1619 Project

Edited by Nikole HannahJone­s, 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.

3. Will

By Will Smith with Mark Manson. The actor, producer and musician tells his life story.

4. Crying in H Mart

By Michelle Zauner. The daughter of a Korean mothlisten­ing er and Jewish American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.

5. The Storytelle­r

By Dave Grohl. A memoir by the musician known for his work with Foo Fighters and Nirvana.

6. Untamed

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

7. Greenlight­s

By Matthew McConaughe­y. The actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.

8. Taste

By Stanley Tucci. The award-winning actor reflects on his career, Italian American heritage, meals and mishaps.

9. Peril

By Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. Journalist­s detail the dangers and challenges during the transition to the Biden presidency.

10. The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present

By Paul McCartney. A two-volume celebratio­n of 154 songs, with handwritte­n texts, paintings and photograph­s from the songwriter’s archives.

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