Fiction
HOPE TO DIE, by James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross' family is kidnapped by a madman who wants to turn Cross into a perfect killer.
GRAY MOUNTAIN, by John Grisham. A downsized Wall Street lawyer joins a legal clinic in a small Virginia town.
THE ESCAPE, by David Baldacci. John Puller, a special agent with the Army, hunts for his brother, who was convicted of treason and has escaped from prison.
REVIVAL, by Stephen King. The continuing relationship, over five decades, between a disgraced clergyman and a drug-addicted musician.
TOM CLANCY: FULL FORCE AND EFFECT, by Mark Greaney. A discovery of mineral deposits has changed North Korea's fortunes and made the country even more of a threat for President Jack Ryan.
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr. The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II.
THE BURNING ROOM, by Michael Connelly. Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch and his new partner investigate two long-unsolved cases.
LEAVING TIME, by Jodi Picoult. After searching for more than 10 years for her mother, who has disappeared, a woman employs a psychic and a detective.
FLESH AND BLOOD, by Patricia Cornwell. Dr. Kay Scarpetta pursues a sniper who may be a vigilante; the 22nd Scarpetta novel.
EDGE OF ETERNITY, by Ken Follett. Five interrelated families grapple with the events of the 1960s through the 1980s; Book 3 of the Century Trilogy.
Nonfiction
HUMANS OF NEW YORK, by Brandon Stanton. Four hundred color photos of New Yorkers.
KILLING PATTON, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of The O'Reilly Factor recounts the death of Gen. George S. Patton in December 1945.
41, by George W. Bush. The former president's portrait of his father, George H. W. Bush.
YES PLEASE, by Amy Poehler. A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress, a Saturday Night Live alumna and the star of Parks and Recreation.
WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. Scientific and often humorous answers to hypothetical questions.
BEING MORTAL, by Atul Gawande. The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life, and offers suggestions for how they can do better.
THE ANDY COHEN DIARIES, by Andy Cohen. One year in the (social) life of the TV producer and host of Watch What Happens Live.
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP, by Al Michaels with L. Jon Wertheim. The veteran sportscaster, the voice of Sunday Night Football, recalls players and games he has observed.
AS YOU WISH, by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden. The making of the movie The Princess Bride 25 years ago.
THE INNOVATORS, by Walter Isaacson. Studies of the people who created computers and the Internet, beginning in the 1840s.
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 MARTIAN, by Andy Weir. After a dust storm forces his crew to abandon him, an astronaut embarks on a dogged quest to stay alive on Mars.
CAPTIVATED BY YOU, by Sylvia Day. Eva and Gideon's vows have opened old wounds, exposed insecurities and lured bitter enemies out of the shadows; a Crossfire novel.
Paperback nonfiction
UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his plane went down over the Pacific.
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. A woman's account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike she took along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995.
AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. A memoir about battlefield experiences in Iraq by the Navy SEALs sniper.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, by Stephen W. Hawking. The British cosmologist reviews efforts to create a unified theory of the universe.
Editorial on 12/21/2014