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BESTSELLER­S

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FICTION 1. Dreamland

By Nicholas Sparks. Musicians from different background­s are attracted to each other and a mother flees with her son from an abusive husband.

2. Fairy Tale

By Stephen King. A high school kid inherits a shed that is a portal to a world where good and evil are at war.

3. The Bullet That Missed By Richard Osman. The third book in the “Thursday Murder Club” series. A decade-old cold case and a new foe spark the latest adventure.

4. Blowback

By James Patterson and Brendan DuBois. President Keegan Barrett’s power grab tests the loyalties of two CIA agents.

5. Lucy by the Sea

By Elizabeth Strout. As the pandemic starts, Lucy Barton and her ex-husband go to a small town in Maine, where they confront their shared history.

6. The Butcher and the Wren

By Alaina Urquhart. A forensic pathologis­t is on the trail of a serial killer in the Louisiana

bayou.

7. Vince Flynn: Oath of Loyalty

By Kyle Mills. The 21st book in the “Mitch Rapp” series. President Cook, a team of assassins and a killer known as Legion confront Rapp on different fronts.

8. All Good People Here

By Ashley Flowers with Alex Kiester. A journalist who returns to her hometown vows to find a missing girl and solve a 20-year-old cold case.

9. Carrie Soto Is Back

By Taylor Jenkins Reid. A tennis player comes out of retirement and trains with her father to defend her record.

10. Less Is Lost

By Andrew Sean Greer. A follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Less,” in which Arthur Less goes on a road trip across America.

NONFICTION

1. I’m Glad My Mom Died

By Jennette McCurdy. The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationsh­ip with her mother.

2. The Divider

By Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. The married journalist­s who write for the New York Times and The New Yorker posit that Donald Trump began to emulate the foreign autocrats he admired.

3. Starry Messenger

By Neil deGrasse Tyson. The astrophysi­cist delves into subjects including politics, religion, gender and race.

4. Dinners With Ruth

By Nina Totenberg. The NPR legal affairs correspond­ent details her profession­al accomplish­ments and friendship with the late Supreme Court

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

5. What If? 2

By Randall Munroe. The creator of the web comic “xkcd” and former NASA roboticist looks into hypothetic­al and oddball scenarios.

6. The Myth of Normal

By Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté. The potential ways in which trauma and stress from modern-day living can affect our physical health.

7. The Mosquito Bowl

By Buzz Bissinger. Journalist depicts the service of college football players who served in the Marines during World War II.

8. Solito

By Javier Zamora. The poet describes his journey over two months from El Salvador to the United States to reconnect with his parents who left years earlier.

9. Like a Rolling Stone

By Jann S. Wenner. A memoir by the founder, co-editor and publisher of Rolling Stone magazine.

10. Breaking History

By Jared Kushner. An account of time spent in the Trump White House by the former president’s son-in-law and senior adviser.

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