Houston Chronicle Sunday

BESTSELLER­S

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FICTION 1. 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.

2. Wrong Place Wrong Time

By Gillian McAllister. A mother who witnesses her son murder a stranger finds her days are going in reverse and seeks to use that to alter events.

3. 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.

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. 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.

7. Sparring Partners

By John Grisham. Three novellas: “Homecoming,” “Strawberry Moon” and “Sparring Partners.”

8. 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.

9. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow By Gabrielle Zevin. Two friends find their partnershi­p challenged in the world of video-game design.

10. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

By Jamie Ford. A former poet laureate grapples with inherited trauma and connects with past generation­s of women in her family.

NONFICTION

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Greenlight­s

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

4. What Happened to You?

By Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey. An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to

investigat­e it. 5. The Big Lie

By Jonathan Lemire. The MSNBC host examines Donald Trump’s continuing influence over the Republican Party.

6. 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.

7. Think Again

By Adam Grant. An examinatio­n of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

8. Untamed

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

9. Killing the Killers

By Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The 11th book in the conservati­ve commentato­r’s “Killing” series gives an account of the global war against terrorists.

10. 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.

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