Sonoma’s Bestseller List, the week ending April 1

The top-selling fiction at Readers’ Books, the week ending April 1|

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1. “An American Marriage” by Tayari Jones

Young and prosperous newlyweds living in the South have their lives thrown apart when the husband is imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. An Oprah Book Club Selection.

2. “Happiness” by Aminatta Forna

An American scientist and a Ghanaian psychologist are brought together in London to search for a missing boy.

3. “To Die But Once” by Jacqueline Winspear

Best-selling mystery writer’s 14th novel that features London investigator and psychologist, Maisie Dobbs.

4. “The Punishment She Deserves” by Elizabeth George

The 20th installment of the best-selling author’s characters of Inspectors Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers.

5. “The Power” by Naomi Alderman

Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction winner imagines a world where women’s bodies possess an electrical charge that is used for both power and as a weapon. An exploration of the potential for corruption and abuse of power.

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1. ”The Secret Life of Mrs. London” by Rebecca Rosenberg

In San Francisco, circa 1915, Charmian and her husband, famed novelist Jack London, encounter and grapple with genius, desire, politics and marital complications.

2. “Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee

National Book Award finalist tells the epic story of a Korean family living in Japan, enduring and prospering through the 20th century.

3. “In This Grave Hour” by Jacqueline Winspear

Former WWI nurse and now investigator and psychologist Maisie Dobbs’s latest adventure, takes place as Great Britain enters WWII.

4. “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline

Set in the year 2045, a story that is part quest, part love story and part virtual space opera. Now a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg.

5. “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders

This Man Booker Prize winner is a philosophical and supernatural tale involving the death of President Lincoln’s young son and the ghosts that inhabit the cemetery where he is buried.

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