Fiction
THE BOOK OF LIFE, by Deborah Harkness. In the conclusion to the All Souls trilogy, the Oxford scholar/witch Diana Bishop and the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont return from Elizabethan London to the present.
THE HEIST, by Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, must track down a famous missing painting by Caravaggio.
ACT OF WAR, by Brad Thor. Counter-terrorism operative Scot Harvath undertakes two dangerous missions as America faces an imminent attack.
CUT AND THRUST, by Stuart Woods. Complications abound as New York lawyer Stone Barrington attends a political convention in Los Angeles.
INVISIBLE, by James Patterson and David Ellis. A former FBI researcher finds a link between scores of apparently unconnected unsolved cases.
THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.
THE SILKWORM, by Robert Galbraith. The private detective Cormoran Strike in literary London; by J. K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.
TOP SECRET TWENTY-ONE, by Janet Evanovich. New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum pursues a dealer who sells more than used cars.
WAYFARING STRANGER, by James Lee Burke. A man's life is traced over decades, starting with his encounter, at age 16, with Bonnie and Clyde.
MR. MERCEDES, by Stephen King. A driver plows into a crowd, killing eight, then taunts a suicidal ex-cop, who must stop another, deadlier attack.
Nonfiction
UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
AMERICA, by Dinesh D'Souza. A defense of America against the view that its power in the world should be diminished; also a documentary film.
BLOOD FEUD, by Edward Klein. A journalist describes animosity behind the alliance between the Clinton and Obama families.
THE MOCKINGBIRD NEXT DOOR, by Marja Mills. The author's experience as Harper Lee's neighbor.
HARD CHOICES, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton's memoir focuses on her years as secretary of state.
ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon who's now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems in health and education based on capitalism, not government.
CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by Thomas Piketty. A French economist's analysis of centuries of economic history predicts worsening inequality and proposes solutions.
THINK LIKE A FREAK, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. How to solve problems creatively.
DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell. How disadvantages can work in our favor.
FACTORY MAN, by Beth Macy. The story of a Virginia factory owner's resistance to offshoring illustrates the effects of globalization on American workers.
Paperback fiction
GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer?
ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Kline. A historical novel about orphans swept off the streets of New York and sent to the Midwest in the 1920s.
THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
THE CUCKOO'S CALLING, by Robert Galbraith. The struggling detective and former military man Cormoran Strike investigates a London supermodel's suicide; by J.K. Rowling, writing pseudony-mously.
AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED, by Khaled Hosseini. A multigenerational family saga centering on a brother and sister from a remote, impoverished village in Afghanistan.
Paperback nonfiction
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. A memoir about a year in a women's prison. The basis for a Netflix series.
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed.
HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A young boy's encounter with Jesus and the angels.
THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she was constantly on the move.
Editorial on 08/03/2014