Best-sellers
Fiction
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in London is full of complications and betrayals.
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.
OBSESSION IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. A murderer is obsessed with Lt. Eve Dallas; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD, by Anne Tyler. Four generations of a family are drawn to a house in the Baltimore suburbs.
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.
TRIGGER WARNING, by Neil Gaiman. Stories and poems about the power of imagination.
MOTIVE, by Jonathan Kellerman. Los Angeles psychologist-detective Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis, a homicide cop, realize that the murder they're investigating was committed by a serial killer.
PRIVATE VEGAS, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Jack Morgan, the head of an investigative firm, uncovers a murder ring in Las Vegas.
GRAY MOUNTAIN, by John Grisham. In a small Virginia town, a downsized Wall Street lawyer becomes involved in litigation against the mining industry.
TWELVE DAYS, by Alex Berenson. Former CIA operative John Wells discovers a plot to trick the president into invading Iran.
Nonfiction
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 subject of a PBS documentary.
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.
BELIEVER, by David Axelrod. A memoir by the political consultant who became Barack Obama's campaign strategist and White House adviser.
YES PLEASE, by Amy Poehler. A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress.
WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. Scientific and often humorous answers to hypothetical questions.
SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. How Homo sapiens became the earth's dominant species.
LEAVING BEFORE THE RAINS COME, by Alexandra Fuller. A memoir of a marriage's collapse.
RED NOTICE, by Bill Browder. An American hedge fund manager in Russia who became the largest foreign investor in the Russian stock market is eventually expelled by kleptocrats who then seize his property.
AS YOU WISH, by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden. The making of the movie The Princess Bride 25 years ago.
THE REAPER, by Nicholas Irving with Gary Brozek. A memoir by a deadly special operations sniper deployed to Afghanistan.
Paperback fiction
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James. An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy.
FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James. Daunted by Christian's dark secrets, Anastasia ends their relationship, but desire still dominates her every thought; the second book in a trilogy.
FIFTY SHADES FREED, by E. L. James. Reunited, Anastasia and Christian face a world of possibilities and unexpected challenges; the final volume in a trilogy.
THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer?
Paperback nonfiction
AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. A memoir about battlefield experiences in Iraq by the Navy SEALs sniper.
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.
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.
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
GHOST BOY, by Martin Pistorius with Megan Lloyd Davies. A young man learns to contend with a mysterious illness that left him unable to control his body or speak.
Source: New York Times
Editorial on 03/01/2015