Houston Chronicle Sunday

BEST-SELLERS

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Fiction

1. Go Set a Watchman: By Harper Lee. In the mid1950s, a grown-up Jean Louise Finch returns home to find that her adored father is not as perfect as she believed.

2. The Girl on the Train: By Paula Hawkins. A psychologi­cal thriller set in the environs of London. 3. All the Light We Cannot

See: By Anthony Doerr. The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II; the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize.

4. Alert: By James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Detective Michael Bennett and the FBI’s Emily Parker must save New York City from a

deadly threat.

5. Silver Linings: By Debbie Macomber. Jo Marie, keeper of the Rose Harbor Inn, and two guests deal with trouble in relationsh­ips.

6. Circling the Sun: By Paula McLain. A novel by the author of “The Paris Wife” about Beryl Markham, a horse trainer and aviatrix who was raised in Kenya.

7. Who Do You Love: By Jennifer Weiner. Andy and Rachel meet as children, then come together and separate repeatedly over the years.

8. The Nightingal­e: By Kristin Hannah. Two sisters in World War II France: one struggling to survive in the countrysid­e, the other joining the Resistance in Paris.

9. Luckiest Girl Alive: By Jessica Knoll. The life of a successful New York magazine writer is shaken when secrets from her past are revealed.

10. The English Spy: By Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon helps British intelligen­ce track down the killer of a beautiful former member of the royal family.

Nonfiction

1. Plunder and Deceit: By Mark R. Levin. The talkradio host urges young Americans to resist the statist mastermind­s who, he says, are burdening them with debt and inferior education. 2. Between the World

and Me: By Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story by the national correspond­ent of The Atlantic, framed as a letter to his teenage son. 3. You’re Never Weird on the Internet

(Almost): By Felicia Day. A memoir of rising to stardom in the Web video world.

4. The Wright Brothers: By David McCullough. The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.

5. Modern Romance: By Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg. The comedian enlists a sociologis­t to help him understand today’s dating scene.

6. Being Mortal: By Atul Gawande. The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life and how they can do better. 7. Dead Wake: By Erik Larson. The last voyage of the Lusitania, the passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo in 1915. 8. Barbarian Days: By William Finnegan. A surfing chronicle and memoir by a New Yorker writer. 9. My Fight/Your Fight: By Ronda Rousey with Maria Burns Ortiz. The U.F.C. women’s bantamweig­ht champion’s struggles to succeed. 10. Down the Rabbit Hole: By Holly Madison. Life inside the Playboy Mansion, by a former bunny and girlfriend of Hugh Hefner.

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