Fiction
GRAY MOUNTAIN, by John Grisham. A downsized Wall Street lawyer joins a legal clinic in a small Virginia town.
THE SLOW REGARD OF SILENT THINGS, by Patrick Rothfuss. An exploration of the world of Auri, a character in the Kingkiller Chronicles.
PRINCE LESTAT, by Anne Rice. The Vampire Chronicles continue after a long hiatus with the reappearance of Lestat de Lioncourt.
HAVANA STORM, by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. Dirk Pitt becomes involved in a post-Castro power struggle in Cuba.
LEAVING TIME, by Jodi Picoult. After searching for her mother, who has disappeared for more than 10 years, a woman employs a psychic and a detective.
THE HANDSOME MAN'S DE LUXE CAFÉ, by Alexander McCall Smith. The 15th book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
PEGASUS, by Danielle Steel. A German aristocrat, fleeing the Nazis, settles in America with a gift of eight purebred horses from his closest friend.
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.
THE PERIPHERAL, by William Gibson. A woman in the rural South, later in this century, witnesses a murder as part of a video game and is drawn into a power struggle in the further-off future.
DEADLINE, by John Sandford. Dognappers and a murdered reporter draw the attention of the Minnesota investigator Virgil Flowers.
Nonfiction
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.
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.
NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL, by Lena Dunham. Essays from the creator and star of Girls.
BEING MORTAL, by Atul Gawande. The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life, and how they can do better.
JETER UNFILTERED, by Derek Jeter with Anthony Bozza. The Yankee shortstop and team captain looks back over his career, with photographs from his recently concluded final season, as well as older ones.
FOOD, by Jim Gaffigan. The comedian, author of Dad Is Fat, describes his relationship with food.
WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. Scientific and often humorous answers to hypothetical questions.
THE INNOVATORS, by Walter Isaacson. Studies of the people who created computers and the Internet, beginning in the 1840s.
DREAMERS AND DECEIVERS, by Glenn Beck with Kevin Balfe. More little-known stories from America's past; a followup to Miracles and Massacres.
STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR, by Michael Savage. The radio host urges true patriots to save the country from the machinations of the left.
Paperback fiction
BLOOD MAGICK, by Nora Roberts. In County Mayo, Ireland, Branna and Fin's relationship offers them both comfort and torment; Book 3 of the Cousins O'Dwyer trilogy.
GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer?
THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
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.
DARK PLACES, by Gillian Flynn. A woman who, as a child, was spared when her mother and sisters were murdered begins to reinvestigate the case against her imprisoned brother.
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SECRET SIX, by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. The story of the Culper spy ring, which aided the American cause during the Revolution. 4
RISE OF ISIS, by Jay Sekulow with Jordan Sekulow and others. An examination of the jihadist group and a warning about its dangers.
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.
Editorial on 11/16/2014