Sonoma’s Bestsellers List, the week ending Nov. 2

Popular novels among Sonoma readers.|

Fiction Hardcover

1. 'Olive, Again' by Elizabeth Strout

Eleven years after the publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Olive Kitteridge,' the beloved curmudgeon returns, along with the interconnecting stories of her fellow townspeople in Maine.

2. 'The Dutch House' by Ann Patchett

Bestselling author Patchett tells the story of a lifelong bond between two siblings and their obsessive connection to their childhood home.

3. 'The Testaments' by Margaret Atwood

Picking up 15 years after 'The Handmaid's Tale,' where single fertile women lived in sexual servitude in an authoritarian dystopia, the narrative is shaped by the testaments of three female characters.

4. 'Where the Crawdads Sing' by Delia Owens

Told in flashbacks and present day, the story of an abandoned 6-year-old girl who raises herself in the wild marshes of North Carolina and, in later years, the events surrounding a murder mystery there are revealed.

5. 'The Guardians' by John Grisham

The latest legal thriller from the popular and prolific bestselling author.

Fiction Paperback

1. 'Unsheltered' by Barbara Kingsolver

The bestselling author's latest combines social commentary and gripping storytelling of two families living in New Jersey; one family during the 1880s, the other in the present day, both occupants of the same house.

2. 'A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts' by Therese Anne Fowler

Historical fiction depicting New York's Gilded Age and the life of socialite and suffragist, Alma Vanderbilt.

3. 'The Overstory' by Richard Powers

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; nine central characters explore their relationship to nature, through the lens of environmental activism.

4. 'Nine Perfect Strangers' by Liane Moriarty

The latest from the author of 'Big Little Lies,' nine guests at a wellness retreat in rural Australia, all there for different reasons, told from multiple narratives.

5. 'The Winter Soldier' by Daniel Mason

A young medical student enlists in the Austrian army and on the battlefields of WWI, learns about life, love and the practice of medicine.

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