In need of a respite from too much holiday fare? Let yourself be whisked away into a world of words via best-selling books by Vashon authors. With titles from over 100 island authors filling an entire section at Vashon Bookshop, the store’s owner, Nancy Katica, described the shop’s best-sellers for the holiday season — by both island authors and those beyond our self-defining shores.

The first three titles Katica cited were Vashon-centric — no surprise there — and ran the gamut from a fictional portrayal of Vashon, to a photographic portrait of the community, to Vashon’s human and natural history.

Jeanie Okimoto’s third novel in a trilogy about Vashon, “The Reinvention of Albert Paugh,” is a “sweet and funny love story” about retirees and dogs set on Vashon. The book will be produced as a play in February by Drama Dock.

Terry Donnelly’s “Coffee &Community: The Vashon Island Coffee Roasterie in Words &Photos” portrays the island through Donnelly’s lens as seen by patrons of the roasterie, considered by many to be one of the island’s main community hubs.

Bruce Haulman’s “A Brief History of Vashon” is the second in his trilogy about Vashon history. The first, “Vashon Island: Images of America,” tells the island’s story through photographs. Haulman’s new book is an interpretive history of Vashon and he writes in the preface that the book is “my attempt to tell the story of Vashon Island in a way that helps makes sense of who we are and how we became what we are today.”

Two more island best-sellers include Vashon yoga teacher and ayurveda practitioner Ronly Blau’s guidebook, “The Mindbody Cleanse: A 14-Day Detox and Rejuvenation Program from Ancient Ayurveda.” The book provides an easy-to-understand protocol, with yoga practices and photographs, meditation and pranayama (breath work) practices for cleansing, with over 100 recipes included.

“The Abascal Way to Quiet Inflammation” is Kathy Abascal’s longtime best-seller that describes the author’s unique diet designed to reduce inflammation and the science behind it.

And the bookshop’s best-sellers by off-island authors? Katica first picked up the coffee table book “Owl” by Paul Bannick, who last month signed copies of the book at Vashon Theatre, after a screening of “Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls.”

Other popular hardcover nonfiction include the new biography of Betty MacDonald, “Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I” by Seattle author Paula Becker; “The Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts, Fillings, and Life” by Kate McDermott; and poet Mary Oliver’s collection of essays, “Upstream.”

For those trying to sort through the nation’s recent political upheaval, three books have risen to the top of the sales charts: “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance, who grew up in the Rust Belt of Ohio and small town Appalachia; “We Should All Be Feminists” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of “Americanah;” and “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America” by Colin Woodard, an award-winning journalist.

In fiction, “Today Will Be Different” by Seattle author Maria Semple has been a strong seller, as has Anne Patchet’s new book, “Commonwealth;” Margaret Atwood’s “Hag Seed;” and the National Book Award winner, “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead.

Wrapping up her list of the season’s most popular books, Katica added with a laugh, “Oh yes, and we can’t forget ‘Hamilton.’”