Fiction
GO SET A WATCHMAN, by Harper Lee. In the mid-1950s, a grown-up Jean Louise Finch returns home to Macomb to find that her adored father is not as perfect as she believed.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in the environs of London.
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; winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize.
ARMADA, by Ernest Cline. A teenage gamer helps save the earth from an alien invasion.
THE ENGLISH SPY, by Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, helps British intelligence track down the killer of a beautiful former member of the royal family.
CODE OF CONDUCT, by Brad Thor. In Thor’s 15th thriller, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath undertakes a deadly assignment set in motion by a leaked video.
NAKED GREED, by Stuart Woods. In the 34th Stone Barrington novel, the New York lawyer helps a client open a beer distributorship and subsequently becomes the target of a group of toughs.
THE NIGHTINGALE, by Kristin Hannah. Two sisters in World War II France: one struggling to survive in the countryside, the other joining the Resistance in Paris.
THE RUMOR, by Elin Hilderbrand. Two friends on Nantucket must deal with damaging gossip about themselves and their husbands.
NEMESIS, by Catherine Coulter. In Coulter’s 19th FBI suspense thriller, agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich must discover who is responsible for bombings in New York City.
Nonfiction
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story by the national correspondent of the Atlantic, framed as a letter to his teenage son.
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, by David McCullough. The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.
MODERN ROMANCE, by Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg. The comedian enlists a sociologist to help him understand today’s dating scene.
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, by Holly Madison. Life inside the Playboy Mansion, by a former bunny and girlfriend of Hugh Hefner.
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.
DEAD WAKE, by Erik Larson. The last voyage of the Lusitania, the passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo in 1915.
A FULL LIFE, by Jimmy Carter. At 90, the 39th president and Nobel Prize winner reflects on his private and public life.
A TIME FOR TRUTH, by Ted Cruz. The Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate tells his personal and political story.
THE CONSERVATIVE HEART, by Arthur
C. Brooks. The president of the American Enterprise Institute urges conservatives to revise their rhetoric and make clear their concern for everyday people.
- SICK IN THE HEAD, by Judd Apatow. Thirty years’ worth of the filmmaker’s interviews with comedians.
Paperback fiction
GREY, by E. L. James. A sequel, told from Christian’s point of view, revisits the tortured romance between the controlling billionaire and the unassuming Ana.
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.
THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
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.
THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. After his mother is killed in a museum explosion, a young man grapples with the world alone while hiding a prized Dutch painting.
Paperback nonfiction
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. The Nobel Peace Prize-winner and teenage activist recounts her path to learning.
OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed.
THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she was constantly on the move.
AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. A memoir recounts the battlefield experiences in Iraq of a Navy SEALs sniper.