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(^116) The 19th Christmas/James Patterson, Maxine Paetro Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club try to stop a deadly crime on Christmas (F) (H) Little, Brown
12 14 Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls/Dav Pilkey Youth: Dog Man discovers he’s the target of a new villain; seventh in series (F) (H) Scholastic
(^1315) Guts/Raina Telgemeier Youth: Author explores how worries about her friends and school affect her physical health (NF) (P) Graphix
14 —Meant to Be Yours/Susan Mallery Writer Jasper Dembenski falls for Renee Grothen and uses her as his muse; fifth in series (F) (E) Harlequin HQN
(^15) —Binging with Babish/Andrew Rea Subtitle: “100 Recipes Recreated from Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows” (NF) (H) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
16 —Three Days at the Brink/Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney Subtitle: “FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II” (NF) (H) William Morrow
(^17) —Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever/
Rachel Renée Russell
Youth: Nikki Maxwell melts down when she finds out MacKenzie Hollister is her roommate on her band’s summer tour; 14th in series (F)
(H) Aladdin
(^1819) The Dutch House/Ann Patchett A doomed house, distant father and wicked stepmother forge an unbreakable bond between two siblings (F) (H) Harper
19 —Shelter for Penelope/Susan Stoker Tucker Jacobs tries to help Penelope Turner, who is struggling after being rescued from terrorists; 15th in series (F) (E) Susan Stoker
(^20) —The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse/Charlie Mackesy A tale of unlikely friendship among a young boy and animals (NF) (H) HarperOne
21 —Dumpty/John Lithgow Subtitle: “The Age of Trump in Verse” (F) (H) Chronicle Prism
(^22) —Food: What the Heck Should I Cook?/Mark Hyman Subtitle: “More than 100 Delicious Recipes – Pegan, Vegan, Paleo, Gluten-free, Dairy-free, and More – For Lifelong Health” (NF) (H) Little,
Brown Spark
(^2316) The Institute/Stephen King Luke Ellis is whisked away to the Institute, where psychic kids are being held captive to save the world (F) (H) Scribner
2412 Blowout/Rachel Maddow Subtitle: “Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth” (NF) (H) Crown
(^25) —To the Land of Long Lost Friends/Alexander McCall Smith Precious Ramotswe takes on a case involving an old friend and her daughter; 20th in series (F) (E) Pantheon
26 —Permanent Record/Edward Snowden Memoir: A whistleblower exposes the depth of government surveillance (NF) (H) Metropolitan Books
(^27) —Greatest Forgiveness/Zhi Gang Sha, Cynthia Deveraux, David
Lusch
Subtitle: “Bring Joy and Peace to Your Life with the Power of Unconditional Forgiveness” (NF) (H) BenBella
(^284) I Really Needed This Today/Hoda Kotb Subtitle: “Words to Live By” (NF) (H) G.P. Putnam’s Sons
29 —The Official Bright Line Eating Cookbook/Susan Peirce
Thompson
Subtitle: “Weight Loss Made Simple” (NF) (H) Smiley Books
30 —Nothing Fancy/Alison Roman Subtitle: “Unfussy Food for Having People Over” (NF) (H) Clarkson Potter
(^3135) Pete the Cat: Trick or Pete/James Dean Children: Pete the Cat goes trick-or-treating from house to house (F) (P) HarperFestival
3231 Educated/Tara Westover Memoir by a Cambridge Ph.D. who was raised by Idaho survivalists and did not enter a classroom until she was 17 (NF) (H) Random
House
3324 The Testaments/Margaret Atwood The Republic of Gilead is still in control, but its power may be weakening; sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale” (F) (H) Nan A. Talese
(^3422) Talking to Strangers/Malcolm Gladwell Subtitle: “What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know” (NF) (H) Little, Brown
35 —Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes
Nutter, Witch/Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
The two well-known authors take a humorous look at humankind’s final judgment; first published in 1990 (F) (E) William Morrow
36 —Swamp Santa/Jana DeLeon Fortune, Ida Belle and Gertie investigate the death of a Santa at the town’s Christmas gala; 16th in series (F) (E) J&R Publishing
(^37) —Do You Mind If I Cancel/Gary Janetti Subtitle: “Things That Still Annoy Me” (NF) (H) Flatiron Books
3821 Bloody Genius/John Sandford Virgil Flowers investigates the murder of a scholar at a local university; 12th in series (F) (E) G.P. Putnam’s Sons
(^39) —Touched by the Sun/Carly Simon Subtitle: “My Friendship With Jackie” (NF) (H) Farrar, Straus and Giroux
4029 The Water Dancer/Ta-Nehisi Coates Hiram Walker is born with the gift, and a near drowning floods him with images of his ancestors -- and a yearning to escape slavery (F)
(H) One World
41 —Twice in a Blue Moon/Christina Lauren Tate Jones is unexpectedly reunited with her first love, Sam Brandis (F) (E) Gallery Books
(^4241) Doctor Sleep/Stephen King In this sequel to 1977’s “The Shining,” King focuses on little Danny Torrance, now all grown up and called Dan (F) (P) Pocket
43 —The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street/Karen White Melanie Trenholm is stressed out about the holidays with her family and issues with the property she inherited (F) (E) Berkley
4432 The Giver of Stars/Jojo Moyes Women deliver books to people as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s traveling library in Depression-era Kentucky (F) (E) Pamela
Dorman Books
(^459) Olive, Again/Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge struggles to understand her life and those around her in a small town in Maine (F) (E) Random House
4644 The Tattooist of Auschwitz/Heather Morris A fictionalized account of the true story of Lale Sokolov, an Auschwitz inmate forced to tattoo numbers on fellow prisoners (F) (P) Har-
per Paperbacks
47 34 The United States of Trump/Bill O’Reilly Subtitle: “How the President Really Sees America” (NF) (H) Henry Holt and Co.
(^48) —Famous/Marie Force Sebastian helps Marlowe work through a traumatic experience (F) (E) HTJB
4910 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Illustrated Edition/J.K.
Rowling; art by Jim Kay
Youth: The fourth book in the series about the boy wizard comes in a new illustrated edition (F) (H) Scholastic
5052 Spooky Pookie/Sandra Boynton Children: It’s Halloween! What will little Pookie decide to be this year? (F) (H) Little Simon
The book list appears
every Thursday.
For each title, the format
and publisher listed are for
the best-selling version of
that title this week.
Reporting outlets include
Amazon.com, Amazon
Kindle, Apple Books,
Barnes & Noble.com,
Barnes & Noble Inc., Barnes
& Noble e-books,
BooksAMillion.com,
Books-A-Million, Costco,
Hudson Booksellers,
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
(Lexington, Ky.; Cincinnati,
Charlotte, Cleveland,
Pittsburgh), Kobo, Inc.,
Powell's Books (Portland,
Ore.), Powells.com, R.J.
Julia Booksellers, Schuler
Books & Music (Grand
Rapids, Okemos, Eastwood,
Alpine, Mich.), Target,
Tattered Cover Book Store
(Denver).
THE TOP 10
1 — The Night Fire
Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard investigate an old
murder that Bosch’s mentor obsessed over; second in
series (F) (E) Little, Brown
2 1 The Guardians
John Grisham
Cullen Post tries to exonerate Quincy Miller for the
death of a young lawyer (F) (H) Doubleday
3 — The Pioneer Woman
Cooks: The New Frontier
Ree Drummond
Subtitle: “112 Fantastic Favorites for Everyday Eating”
(NF) (H) Morrow Cookbooks
4 — The Deserter
Nelson DeMille,
Alex DeMille
Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor are tasked with
bringing home an Army deserter (F) (E) Simon &
Schuster
5 7 Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel
Scheffler
Children: A witch in search of her hat welcomes
myriad creatures onto her broom (F) (P) Puffin
6 — The Burning White
Brent Weeks
Kip Guile must protect his people with one final
showdown against the White King; fifth and final in
series (F) (E) Orbit
7 — Agent Running in the Field
John le Carré
An aging veteran of MI6 is called back to London and
has to grapple with modern political issues (F) (E)
Viking
8 5 Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
The reclusive Kya Clark is suspected in the death of
Chase Andrews (F) (H) G.P. Putnam’s Sons
9 2 Me
Elton John
Music icon details stumbles and triumphs on his path
to enduring superstardom in his first official autobi-
ography (NF) (H) Henry Holt and Co.
10 3 Catch and Kill
Ronan Farrow
Subtitle: “Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect
Predators” (NF) (H) Little, Brown
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King talks about
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8(^1) D R (^2) AM A T (^3) I C
I C L
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T A U
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C A O
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1 Doo-wop group
member
5 Diamond Head
locale
9 Dam on the Nile
14 Amazon’s smart
speaker
15 Stevedore’s
workplace
16 Elbow room
17 Abandoned Wild
West site
19 Fragrant
evergreens
20 Make seams, say
21 Cruet filler
22 Mini-burgers
24 Unflappable sort
26 Prior to, in verse
27 Like an audiobook
30 Pop-ups that you
can’t get rid of
35 Homes with
hexagonal cells
36 Scandal suffix
37 Temporary
insanity, e.g.
38 Winter Olympics
leap
39 Bret who wrote
gold rush stories
40 Stuff in dust
bunnies
41 “Works for me”
42 Ship of Greek myth
43 So last year
44 Chem lab vessel
46 Ceded the pigskin,
in a way
47 TripAdvisor
spokesbird
48 Totally out of gas
50 Tack room gear
54 “And so forth,”
briefly
55 Go kaput
58 With eyes open
59 McCarthy’s pursuit
of reds, e.g.
62 Pedometer
function
63 Word after play or
gray
64 Clumsy sorts
65 Athletes’ awards
since 1993
66 Apt to mouth off
67 Sneaky tactic
DOWN
1 Says “pretty please”
2 Rue the workout
3 It must go on, it’s
said
4 Dots-and-dashes
distress call
5 Sunroof, perhaps
6 Garlicky
mayonnaise
7 Fell with an axe
8 Big brewers
9 Set lofty goals
10 Greenery popular
in offices
11 Go downhill
12 Maker of
Chromebook
laptops
13 Prohibition agent
Eliot
18 Shoppers’ carryalls
23 Flood-preventing
barrier
24 Opener of many
locks
25 Visa statement
items
27 Dumbwaiter
enclosure
28 Mischievous sprite
29 Bagel shop fixtures
31 “Beetle Bailey”
pooch
32 Sought-after
guests
33 Like urban
populations
34 Full, and then
some
36 What you
wear
39 Anglers’ takes
43 Refreshment in
a bowl
45 Sounds from a
hatchery
46 Garfield, to
Jon
49 Dwindle, with
“out”
50 Aesopian racer
51 Leaves
dumbstruck
52 Sing like Joe
Cocker
53 Transaction at a
meet
55 Serving two
purposes
56 What FAQs
provide
57 Crafts website
60 Road rage, say
61 Start of a triple
jump
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5 3 6 1 2 4
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By John Wilmes 10/31
Halloween night fliers
Halloween cookie with
orange filling
Halloween film, “The ”
“31 Days of Halloween”
network
Halloween shouts
1992 horror comedy,
“ of Darkness”
Steal (slang),
as Halloween candy
“Ghostbusters” 2016 film
studio
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Become very angry
1997 Richard Gere movie
Soccer term
Way to fire up an old
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Begin ahead of schedule
Way to exit the workforce
Long-term savings strategy
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