Houston Chronicle Sunday

BESTSELLER­S

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FICTION

1. Verity

By Colleen Hoover. Lowen Ashleigh is hired by the husband of an injured writer to complete her popular series and uncovers a horrifying truth.

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

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

4. The Golden Enclaves By Naomi Novik. The third book in the “Scholomanc­e” series. Life after graduation turns out to be dangerous.

5. The Winners By Fredrik Backman. The third book in the “Beartown” series. Rivalries between two hockey obsessed towns escalate into violence off the ice.

6. Treasure State

By C.J. Box. The sixth book in the “Cassie Dewell” series. Cassie works two cases involving buried treasure and a con man. 7. Blowback

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

8. 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.

9. Suspect

By Scott Turow. A private investigat­or named Pinky helps an attorney try to clear a female police chief of sexual misconduct charges made by three male officers.

10. The Butcher and the Wren

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

NONFICTION

1. I’m Glad My Mom Died

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

2. Live Wire

By Kelly Ripa. TV host shares stories from her life on and off screen.

3. Killing the Legends

By Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The conservati­ve commentato­r’s “Killing” series profiles Elvis Presley, John Lennon and Muhammad Ali.

4. Starry Messenger

By Neil de Grasse Tyson. The astrophysi­cist delves into subjects including politics, religion, gender and race. 5. 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.

6. The Mosquito Bowl

By Buzz Bissinger. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist depicts the service of college football players who served in the Marines during World War II. 7. Adrift

By Scott Galloway. An overview of events from 1945 to the present and how they might inform potential crises in the near future.

8. What If? 2

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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