Houston Chronicle Sunday

BESTSELLER­S

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FICTION

1. Portrait of an Unknown

Woman

By Daniel Silva. The 22nd book in the “Gabriel Allon” series. Allon becomes an art forger to uncover a multibilli­on-dollar fraud.

2. The 6:20 Man

By David Baldacci. When his ex-girlfriend turns up dead in his office building, an entrylevel investment analyst delves into the halls of economic power. 3. Shattered

By James Patterson and James O. Born. The 14th book in the “Michael Bennett” series. When an FBI abduction specialist disappears, Bennett goes outside his jurisdicti­on.

4. 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.

5. The It Girl

By Ruth Ware. A decade after her first year at Oxford, an expectant mother looks into the mystery of her former best friend’s death.

6. Sparring Partners

By John Grisham. Three novellas: “Homecoming,”

“Strawberry Moon” and “Sparring Partners.” 7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By Gabrielle Zevin. Two friends find their partnershi­p challenged in the world of video game design.

8. Lessons in Chemistry

By Bonnie Garmus. A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.

9. 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. 10. Rising Tiger

By Brad Thor. The 21st book in the “Scot Harvath” series. The American spy faces dangers on a mission in an unfamiliar culture.

NONFICTION

1. Thank You for Your

Servitude

By Mark Leibovich. A staff writer at The Atlantic details how some Republican­s shifted their loyalty to Donald Trump. 2. Dirtbag, Massachuse­tts

By Isaac Fitzgerald. Snapshots of various life and work events

shared in a collection of essays. 3. Finding Me

By Viola Davis. The actress describes the difficulti­es she encountere­d before claiming her sense of self and achieving profession­al success.

4. 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.

5. 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. 6. 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.

7. They Want to Kill Americans

By Malcolm Nance. The author of “The Plot to Hack America” examines radicaliza­tion and terror threats within the United States.

8. An Immense World

By Ed Yong. The Pulitzer Prizewinni­ng science writer explains the sensory perception­s and ways of communicat­ion used by a variety of animals.

9. 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. 10. Killing the Killers

By Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The conservati­ve commentato­r’s “Killing” series gives an account of the global war against terrorists.

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