Fiction
- PERSONAL, by Lee Child. Jack Reacher, a former military cop, helps the State Department and the CIA stop a sniper who has targeted a G8 summit.
- SOMEWHERE SAFE WITH SOMEBODY GOOD, by Jan Karon. The Mitford character Father Tim Kavanagh returns to his native town to find friends and family wrestling with difficulties.
- THE BONE CLOCKS, by David Mitchell. Stories from the medieval Swiss Alps, the 19th-Century Australian bush, a hotel in Shanghai, and Manhattan in the near future are stitched together.
- THE SECRET PLACE, by Tana French. A clue to a murder on the grounds of a girls' school in the Dublin suburbs appears on a bulletin board, and Detectives Stephen Moran and Antoinette Conway investigate.
- THE EYE OF HEAVEN, by Clive Cussler and Russell Blake. Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo discover a Viking ship full of artifacts from pre-Columbian Mexico in the Arctic ice.
- COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE, by Haruki Murakami. A young man's difficult coming-of-age.
- THE LONG WAY HOME, by Louise Penny. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, retired from the Sûreté du Québec and settled in the village of Three Pines, searches for a neighbor's missing husband.
- THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. A painting becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.
- BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends?
- MEAN STREAK, by Sandra Brown. A North Carolina pediatrician is held captive by a mysterious man.
Nonfiction
- WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. Scientific, often humorous answers to hypothetical questions.
- UNPHILTERED, by Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach. What the Duck Commander (from the A&E show Duck Dynasty) really thinks about various topics.
- ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. Ben Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems.
- DIARY OF A MAD DIVA, by Joan Rivers. Humorous reflections about life, pop culture and celebrities.
- IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE, by Hampton Sides. An 1879 polar voyage goes terribly wrong.
- AMERICA, by Dinesh D'Souza. A defense of America against the view that its power in the world should be diminished.
- THE ORGANIZED MIND, by Daniel J. Levitin. A professor draws on research in neuroscience to explain how organization can help us manage information in our lives.
- THE TEACHER WARS, by Dana Goldstein. A journalist surveys the history of public school teaching and finds that it sheds light on current controversies.
- UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
- THINK LIKE A FREAK, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. How to solve problems creatively.
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.
- SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. A sequel, about race and inheritance, to A Time to Kill.
- THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.
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.
- OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed; it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
- HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A young boy's encounter with Jesus and the angels.
- WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. A life-changing hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
Editorial on 09/21/2014