James Patterson remains atop bestseller list with ‘22 Seconds’

FICTION 1. 22 Seconds By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. The 22nd book in the "Women's Murder Club" series. Lindsay Boxer returns as word gets around about a shipment of drugs and weapons. 2. The…

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FICTION

1. 22 Seconds

By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. The 22nd book in the “Women’s Murder Club” series. Lindsay Boxer returns as word gets around about a shipment of drugs and weapons.

2. The Summer Place

珍妮弗·韦纳。Ruby Danhaus之间的婚礼er and her pandemic boyfriend at a family beach house in Cape Cod brings to light family secrets.

3. Dream Town

By David Baldacci. The third book in the “Archer” series. Archer, Dash and Callahan search for a missing screenwriter who had a dead body turn up in her home.

4. Run, Rose, Run

By Dolly Parton and James Patterson. A singer-songwriter goes to Nashville seeking stardom but is followed by her dark past.

5. Book Of Night

By Holly Black. A bartender working at a Berkshires dive bar deals with doppelgängers, billionaires and magicians seeking a vast and terrible power.

6. The Lioness

By Chris Bohjalian. In 1964, a violent kidnapping disrupts a honeymoon holiday in Tanzania for a Hollywood star and her friends.

7. The Paris Apartment

By Lucy Foley. Jess has suspicions about her half-brother’s neighbors when he goes missing.

8. The Homewreckers

By Mary Kay Andrews. A widow starring in a beach house renovation reality show gets caught up in competing love interests and an old missing persons case.

9. 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.

10. 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.

NONFICTION

1. Finding Me

By Viola Davis. The award-winning actress describes the difficulties she encountered before claiming her sense of self and achieving professional success.

2. Killing the Killers

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

3. A Sacred Oath

By Mark T. Esper. The former secretary of defense gives an account of serving in his post until he was fired by the president after the 2020 election.

4. The Palace Papers

By Tina Brown. This follow-up to “The Diana Chronicles” details how the royal family reinvented itself after the death of Princess Diana.

5. This Will Not Pass

By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns. Two New York Times correspondents chronicle the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency.

6. Out of the Corner

By Jennifer Grey. The actress details growing up the child of Joel Grey, her iconic film roles and the repercussions from a plastic surgery procedure.

7. How the World Really Works

By Vaclav Smil. A look at our 21st-century lives covering food production, globalization and the environment, and prognostications on our quality of life ahead.

8. 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.

9. Hearts Touched With Fire

By David Gergen. The former White House adviser to four presidents details the stories of iconic and effective leaders.

10. Back to the Prairie

By Melissa Gilbert. The actress and former president of the Screen Actors Guild chronicles renovating a cottage in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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