Fiction
STORM FRONT, by John Sandford. Minnesota investigator Virgil Flowers becomes involved in the hunt for an ancient inscribed stone smuggled out of the Middle East.
DOCTOR SLEEP, by Stephen King. Now grown up, Dan, the boy with psycho-intuitive powers in The Shining, helps another threatened child with a spectacular gift.
THE LONGEST RIDE, by Nicholas Sparks. The lives of two couples converge unexpectedly.
GONE, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Detective Michael Bennett, living with his 10 adopted children on a California farm, is pursued by the head of a Mexican drug cartel he once put in jail.
DOG SONGS, by Mary Oliver. The dogs who have shared the life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet in 35 poems and an essay.
STARRY NIGHT, by Debbie Macomber. At Christmastime a big-city columnist sets out to interview a reclusive author in Alaska.
THE CIRCLE, by Dave Eggers. A dystopian novel about life on the campus of a powerful internet company.
DOING HARD TIME, by Stuart Woods. In the 27th Stone Barrington novel, the New York lawyer teams up with a rogue former CIA agent and heads west to protect Barrington’s son and his friends from Russian assassins.
THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, by Elizabeth Gilbert. A 19th-Century botanist’s love of knowledge takes her to Tahiti.
THE LOWLAND, by Jhumpa Lahiri. After his radical brother is killed, an Indian scientist brings his widow to join him in America.
Nonfiction
KILLING JESUS, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. Jesus’ life and times and the events leading up to his execution.
DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell. How disadvantages can work in our favor.
THE REASON I JUMP, by Naoki Higashida. A 13-year-old boy with autism answers questions.
I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. The experience of a Pakistani girl who advocated for women’s education and was shot by the Taliban.
MY STORY, by Elizabeth Smart with Chris Stewart. A woman kidnapped by religious fanatics from her Utah home in 2002 at age 14 describes her captivity and rescue nine months later.
SI-COLOGY 1, by Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach. Tales from Phil Robertson’s youngest brother, retired from the Army, who works in the Duck Commander workshop.
ONE SUMMER, by Bill Bryson. The author of A Short History of Nearly Everything describes the events of the summer of 1927: Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight, Babe Ruth’s 60 homers, the great Mississippi River flood.
LEAN IN, by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell. The chief operating officer of Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence.
TIP AND THE GIPPER, by Chris Matthews. The host of MSNBC’s Hardball, a former aide to Tip O’Neill, analyzes the former speaker’s collegial relationship with President Ronald Reagan.
ZEALOT, by Reza Aslan. A biography of Jesus of Nazareth presents him in the context of his times as the leader of a revolutionary movement.
Paperback fiction
DEAR LIFE, by Alice Munro. The latest collection of stories by this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
THE HIT, by David Baldacci. Government hit man Will Robie uncovers a serious threat as he tries to stop Jessica Reel, a fellow assassin who has gone rogue.
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E.L. James. An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in an erotic trilogy.
THE CASUAL VACANCY, by J.K. Rowling. The sudden death of a parish councilman reveals bitter social divisions in an idyllic English town; the author’s first novel for adults.
WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, by Maria Semple. A teenage daughter compiles emails, official documents and secret correspondence in an effort to find her eccentric mother.
Paperback nonfiction
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. A memoir by a Brooklyn woman whose relationship with a drug runner gets her sentenced to a year in prison. The basis for the Netflix series, originally published in 2010.
PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander. A neurosurgeon recounts his near-death experience during a coma from bacterial meningitis.
JESUS > RELIGION, by Jefferson Bethke. Thoughts on faith from the author of the viral video poem Why I Hate Religion, but Love Jesus.
OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed; it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
QUIET, by Susan Cain. Introverts, one third of the population, are undervalued in American society.
Perspective, Pages 80 on 10/27/2013