Fiction
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in 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.
ENDANGERED, by C. J. Box. When his 18-year-old ward is found beaten in a ditch, Montana game warden Joe Pickett suspects her boyfriend, a rodeo star.
A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD, by Anne Tyler. Four generations of a family are drawn to a house in the Baltimore suburbs.
THE BURIED GIANT, by Kazuo Ishiguro. In a semi-historical ancient Britain, an elderly couple set out in search of their son.
LAST ONE HOME, by Debbie Macomber. Three estranged sisters work to resolve their differences.
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.
WORLD GONE BY, by Dennis Lehane. In 1943 the gangster Joe Coughlin, a rising power in the Tampa underworld, discovers that there is a contract out on his life; the final book in a trilogy.
THE ASSASSIN, by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. Detective Isaac Bell investigates the murders of opponents of the Standard Oil trust in 1905.
PRODIGAL SON, by Danielle Steel. Twins, one good and one bad, reunite after 20 years when one of them returns to their hometown.
Nonfiction
DEAD WAKE, by Erik Larson. The last voyage of the Lusitania.
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.
EVERY DAY I FIGHT, by Stuart Scott with Larry Platt. A memoir by the ESPN anchor and commentator, who died of cancer in January.
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.
YES PLEASE, by Amy Poehler. A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress.
H IS FOR HAWK, by Helen Macdonald. A grief-stricken British woman decides to raise a goshawk, a fierce bird that is notoriously difficult to tame.
WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. Scientific and often humorous answers to hypothetical questions.
GIRL IN A BAND, by Kim Gordon. A memoir by a founding member of Sonic Youth.
BETTYVILLE, by George Hodgman. A New York editor returns to his Missouri hometown to care for his aging mother.
OUR KIDS, by Robert D. Putnam. A social scientist argues that income inequality is creating an "opportunity gap" for poor children that is destroying the American dream.
Paperback fiction
THE HUSBAND'S SECRET, by Liane Moriarty. Cecilia Fitzpatrick--successful businesswoman, devoted wife and mother--finds a letter that throws everything she's believed into doubt.
FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James. Daunted by Christian's dark secrets, Anastasia ends their relationship, but desire still dominates her every thought.
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.
STILL ALICE, by Lisa Genova. A professor learns she has early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
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.
Paperback nonfiction
AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. A memoir recounts the battlefield experiences in Iraq by the Navy SEALs sniper.
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
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.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, by Stephen Hawking. The British cosmologist reviews efforts to create a unified theory of the universe.
Source: New York Times
Editorial on 03/29/2015