10/17/2021
| fiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the wish | Nicholas Sparks | Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas. |
| 2 | cloud cuckoo land | Anthony Doerr | An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future. |
| 3 | apples never fall | Liane Moriarty | The Delaney siblings suspect their father of causing the disappearance of their mother. |
| 4 | harlem shuffle | Colson Whitehead | Ray Carney, a family man who sells furniture on 125th Street, gets a new clientele made up of vicious and unsavory characters. |
| 5 | the last graduate | Naomi Novik | The second book in the Scholomance series. Will students now in their senior year make it out alive? |
| 6 | the jailhouse lawyer | James Patterson and Nancy Allen | A young lawyer winds up in an Alabama jail that remains mysteriously crowded. |
| 7 | bewilderment | Richard Powers | An astrobiologist and single father learns of a neurofeedback treatment that may improve his son’s emotional control. |
| 8 | the man who died twice | Richard Osman | The second book in the Thursday Murder Club series. A ruthless murderer is out to get four septuagenarian friends. |
| 9 | billy summers | Stephen King | A killer for hire who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one final job. |
| 10 | the santa suit | Mary Kay Andrews | A recently divorced woman searching the pockets of an old Santa suit finds a child’s wish that her father return from war. |
| 11 | the last thing he told me | Laura Dave | Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship. |
| 12 | beautiful world, where are you | Sally Rooney | A novelist, a warehouse worker, an editorial assistant and a political adviser deal with changes. |
| 13 | vince flynn: enemy at the gates | Kyle Mills | Anthony Cook, an autocratic president, distrusts Mitch Rapp, who is working to uncover a traitor. |
| 14 | the midnight library | 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. |
| 15 | a slow fire burning | Paula Hawkins | Three women come under scrutiny when a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat. |
| nonfiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peril | Bob Woodward and Robert Costa | The Washington Post journalists detail the dangers and challenges during the transition to the Biden presidency. |
| 2 | vanderbilt | Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe | The CNN host and descendant of the Vanderbilt family charts the rise and fall of this American dynasty. |
| 3 | american marxism | Mark R. Levin | The Fox News host gives his take on the Green New Deal, critical race theory and social activism. |
| 4 | no cure for being human | Kate Bowler | After being diagnosed with cancer at 35, the author of “Everything Happens for a Reason” takes a new look at the advice industry and her own ambitions. |
| 5 | the baseball 100 | Joe Posnanski | The accomplishments of some of the sport’s greatest players past and present are put into context with one another. |
| 6 | unrequited infatuations | Stevie Van Zandt | A memoir by the musician known for playing with the E Street Band, starring on “The Sopranos” and participating in activist causes. |
| 7 | bourdain | Laurie Woolever | An oral biography of the late chef, writer and television host by his longtime assistant and confidante. |
| 8 | what happened to you? | Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey | An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it. |
| 9 | rationality | Steven Pinker | An exploration of several tools of reasoning often overlooked in standard education and some of the causes of irrationality within society. |
| 10 | greenlights | Matthew McConaughey | The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years. |
| 11 | crying in h mart | 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. |
| 12 | yours cruelly, elvira | Cassandra Peterson | The actress details the moments from her life and career that shaped the creation of her character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. |
| 13 | my life in full | Indra Nooyi | A memoir by the former chairman and chief executive of PepsiCo. |
| 14 | a hunter-gatherer's guide to the 21st century | Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein | The evolutionary biologists posit that the modern world is out of sync with our ancient brains and bodies. |
| 15 | untamed | Glennon Doyle | The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. |