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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2021 • THE BULLETIN
national bestsellers
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended
Saturday, Jan. 9, compiled from data from independent
and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and
independent distributors nationwide.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi. Charles
Soule. Del Rey
2. Neighbors. Danielle Steel. Delacorte
3. The Vanishing Half. Brit Bennett. Riverhead
4. The Return. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central
5. A Time for Mercy. John Grisham. Doubleday
6. Ready Player Two. Ernest Cline. Ballantine
7. Anxious People. Fredrik Backman. Atria
8. Deadly Cross. James Patterson. Little, Brown
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conforming people are talked about and
their lived realities. The arsenal of tools for
gender self-determination and liberation
within this compact book make this a must
read for all gender diverse people and their
co-conspirators.
“Beyond the Gender Binary” is currently
available at Deschutes Public Library as an
e-book or e-audiobook on Libby.
—Rodrigo Gaspar-Barajas,
Latino Services coordinator
9. Daylight. David Baldacci. Grand Central
10. The Awakening. Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. A Promised Land. Barack Obama. Crown
2. Keep Sharp. Sanjay Gupta. Simon & Schuster
3. Know Yourself, Know Your Money. Rachel Cruze.
Ramsey
4. Greenlights. Matthew McConaughey. Crown
5. Untamed. Glennon Doyle. Dial
6. Forgiving What You Can’t Forget. Lysa TerKeurst.
Nelson
7. Caste. Isabel Wilkerson. Random House
8. Magnolia Table, Vol. 2. Joanna Gaines. Morrow
9. Get Out of Your Head. Jennie Allen. WaterBrook
ADULT BOOKS
“We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at
Harvard and A Half Century of Silence,”
by Becky Cooper
This true crime story is perfect for mys-
tery lovers looking for a big book to escape
into this winter. In 1969, Harvard archaeol-
ogy student Jane Britton is found dead in her
apartment after missing her comprehensive
exams. Cooper, a recent Harvard graduate,
10. D&D: Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything. Wizards of the
Coast
MASS MARKET
1. Shadows in Death. J.D. Robb. St. Martin’s
2. Bridgerton: The Duke and I (TV tie-in). Julia Quinn.
Avon
3. Preacher’s Carnage. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle
4. An Irish Wish. Nora Roberts. Silhouette
5. Moral Compass. Danielle Steel. Dell
6. Blood in the Dust. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle
7. The Inn. Patterson/Fox. Grand Central
8. Out of the Storm. B.J. Daniels. HQN
9. Unsolved. Patterson/Ellis. Grand Central
10. Bitter Pill. Fern Michaels. Zebra
twines her story with Britton’s to examine
power and gender structures at the revered
institution as she tries to solve the murder.
The book is dense and full of detail, but never
slow, as Cooper tracks down cops, friends,
colleagues, and suspects, many of whom still
stalk the halls of Harvard’s Peabody Museum.
“The Office of Historical Corrections,”
by Danielle Evans
Short story enthusiasts and those struggling
to concentrate on longer narratives will want
TRADE PAPERBACK
1. My Hero Academia, Vol. 26. Kohei Horikoshi. Viz
2. Home Body. Rupi Kaur. Andrews McMeel
3. Burn After Writing (pink). Sharon Jones.
TarcherPerigee
4. The Dutch House. Ann Patchett. Harper Perennial
5. Bridgerton: The Duke and I (TV tie-in). Julia Quinn.
Avon
6. The Step-by-Step Instant Pot Cookbook. Jeffrey Eisner.
Voracious
7. The Next Right Thing Guided Journal. Emily P.
Freeman. Revell
8. NYPD Red 6. Patterson/Karp. Grand Central
9. News of the World (movie tie-in). Paulette Jiles. Morrow
10. The House in the Cerulean Sea. TJ Klune. Tor
to pick up Evans’s collection of six stories and
one novella. Evans is a master of short fiction,
taking her characters in surprising directions
both emotionally and physically. Her stories
examine universal concepts such as love and
grief through the lens of race and history, ask-
ing readers to think about American culture
in new ways. But this collection is not heavy.
Evans’ characters are modern and vibrant,
and the twists will delight as much as shock
readers into fresh perspectives.
—Jenny Pedersen, community librarian
In “Beyond the Gender Binary,” Vaid-Menon weaves anecdotes about their own life with a succinct
analysis of the colonial origins of the gender binary and the contradictions between how gender
non conforming people are talked about and their lived realities. The arsenal of tools for gender self-
determination and liberation within this compact book make this a must read for all gender diverse
people and their co-conspirators.