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Fiction 1. THE 6:20 MAN

by David Baldacci (Grand Central) When his ex-girlfriend turns up dead in his office building, an entry-level investment analyst delves into the halls of economic power.

2. PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN

by Daniel Silva (Harper)

The 22nd book in the “Gabriel Allon” series. Allon becomes an art forger to uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud.

3. THE HOTEL NANTUCKET

by Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown) The new general manager of a hotel far from its Gilded Age heyday deals with the complicated pasts of her guests and staff.

4. THE IT GIRL

by Ruth Ware (Scout)

A decade after her first year at Oxford, an expectant mother looks into the mystery of her former best friend’s death.

5. SHATTERED

by James Patterson and James O. Born (Little, Brown)

The 14th book in the “Michael Bennett: series. When an FBI abduction specialist disappears, Bennett goes outside his jurisdiction.

6. SPARRING PARTNERS

by John Grisham (Doubleday) Three novellas: “Homecoming,” “Strawberry Moon” and “Sparring Partners.”

7. TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW

by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf)

Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.

8. THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY

by Matt Haig (Viking)

Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.

9. THE MEASURE

by Nikki Erlick (Morrow)

People around the world receive a small wooden box telling them the exact number of years they will live.

10. THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME

by Laura Dave (Simon & Schuster) Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.

Nonfiction 1. FINDING ME

by Viola Davis (HarperOne)

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

2. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY

by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)

The humorist portrays personal and public upheavals of his life in its seventh decade and the world in the time of a pandemic.

3. CRYING IN H MART

by Michelle Zauner (Knopf)

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.

4. THE BIG LIE

by Jonathan Lemire (Flatiron)

The MSNBC host and White House bureau chief at Politico examines Donald Trump’s continuing influence over the Republican Party.

5. BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN MIND

by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin (Broadside)

The “Fox & Friends Weekend” host makes his case for what he calls classical Christian education.

6. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVITUDE

by Mark Leibovich (Penguin Press)

A staff writer at The Atlantic details how some Republicans shifted their loyalty to Donald Trump.

7. GREENLIGHTS

by Matthew McConaughey (Crown) The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.

8. THINK AGAIN

by Adam Grant (Viking)

An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

9. KILLING THE KILLERS

by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

(St. Martin’s)

The 11th book in the conservative commentator’s “Killing” series gives an account of the global war against terrorists.

10. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?

by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey (Flatiron)

An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.

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