BESTSELLERS
FICTION
1. The Hotel Nantucket
By Elin Hilderbrand. The new general manager of a hotel far from its Gilded Age heyday deals with the complicated pasts of her guests and staff.
2. Sparring Partners
By John Grisham. Three novellas: “Homecoming,” “Strawberry Moon” and “Sparring Partners.”
3. The House Across the Lake
By Riley Sager. An actress escaping bad press goes to a Vermont lake house and uncovers secrets within a neighboring couple’s marriage.
4. Escape
By James Patterson and
David Ellis. The third book in the Billy Harney thriller series. Detective Harney goes after a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist.
5. Lapvona
By Ottessa Moshfegh. When a motherless shepherd boy gets in violent proximity to a depraved lord’s family, occult forces upset the old order in a medieval fief.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Meant to Be
By Emily Giffin. Joe, the disappointing scion of a family considered American royalty, and Cate, a budding model seeking to escape her surroundings, find each other.
9. Horse
By Geraldine Brooks. The story of a racehorse, an enslaved groom and an itinerant painter reverberates in three different eras.
10. Run, Rose, Run
By Dolly Parton and James Patterson. A singer-songwriter goes to Nashville seeking stardom but is followed by her dark past.
NONFICTION 1. Battle for the American Mind
By Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin. The “Fox & Friends Weekend” host makes his case for what he calls classical Christian education.
2. An Immense World
By Ed Yong. Science writer explains sensory perceptions and ways of communication used by a variety of animals.
3. Happy-Go-Lucky
By David Sedaris. The humorist portrays personal and public upheavals of his life in its seventh decade and the world in the time of a pandemic.
4. Killing the Killers
By Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. Conservative commentator’s Killing series gives an account of the global war against terrorists.
5. James Patterson
By James Patterson. The author’s life, from growing up in small-town New York to working in the advertising industry to becoming a successful storyteller.
6. Finding Me
By Viola Davis. The multiple award-winning actress describes the difficulties she encountered before claiming her sense of self and achieving professional success.
7. I’d Like to Play Alone, Please
By Tom Segura. The stand-up comedian and podcaster shares stories of parenting and strange encounters.
8. River of the Gods
By Candice Millard. The story of the hardships encountered during 19th-century expeditions in Africa, and the complicated partnerships behind them.
9. Crying in H Mart
By Michelle Zauner. The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish-American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.
10. Greenlights
By Matthew McConaughey. The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.