FICTION
1. Sooley, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.
2. The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman. (Viking) The poem read on President Joe Biden's Inauguration Day, by the youngest poet to write and perform an inaugural poem.
3. Finding Ashley, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) Two estranged sisters, one a former bestselling author, the other a nun, reconnect as one searches for the child the other gave up.
4. A Gambling Man, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town.
5. The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin's) As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West.
6. 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.
7. Ocean Prey, by John Sandford. (Putnam) The 31st book in the "Prey" series. When federal officers are killed, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to investigate matters.