BESTSELLERS

Fiction

1. Sooley by John Grisham. Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.

2. The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman. The poem read on President Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day, by the youngest poet to write and perform an inaugural poem.

3. Finding Ashley by Danielle Steel. Two estranged sisters, one a former bestselling author, the other a nun, reconnect as one searches for the child the other gave up.

4. A Gambling Man by David Baldacci. Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town.

5. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West.

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. Ocean Prey by John Sandford. The 31st book in the “Prey” series. When federal officers are killed, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to investigate matters.

8. Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri. A woman who feels lost in life finds solace in the city she calls home and gets a new outlook while visiting the sea.

9. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab. A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.

10. Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good by Timothy Zahn. In this “Star Wars” saga, Thrawn and the Expansionary Defense Fleet discover how their enemy truly operates.

Nonfiction

1. 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.

2. The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell. A look at the key players and outcomes of precision bombing during World War II.

3. You Are Your Best Thing edited by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown. An anthology of writing on the Black experience and shame resilience.

4. How Y’all Doing? by Leslie Jordan. A collection of essays by the Emmy-winning actor who became a viral sensation without knowing what that phrase meant at the time. 5. Out of Many, One by George W. Bush. Fortythree portraits by the former president, of men and women who have immigrated to the United States.

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

8. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.

9. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. The Academy Awardwinning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the past 35 years.

10. The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson. How Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues invented CRISPR, a tool that can edit DNA.