Fiction
MAKE ME, by Lee Child. In his 20th appearance, Jack Reacher pries open a missing-persons case that takes him across the country and into the shadowy reaches of the Internet.
THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB, by David Lagercrantz. Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are back in this continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series.
GO SET A WATCHMAN, by Harper Lee. In the mid-1950s, a grown-up Jean Louise Finch returns home 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.
STAR WARS: AFTERMATH, by Chuck Wendig. In this continuation of the Star Wars series, the Imperial elite haven’t reckoned on former rebel fighter Norra Wexley.
PURITY, by Jonathan Franzen. Franzen’s title character, burdened by college debt, a lack of direction and a sharp intelligence, is a damaged innocent in need of rescue and redemption.
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.
X, by Sue Grafton. A variety of X’s lead Kinsey Millhone into deep secrets and onto the trail of a cold case.
TWO YEARS EIGHT MONTHS AND TWENTY-EIGHT NIGHTS, by Salman Rushdie. In an update of One Thousand and One Nights, a storm unleashes mysterious abilities in a group of people descended from a jinni.
UNDERCOVER, by Danielle Steel. A woman recovering from an act of violence in Buenos Aires crosses paths with a DEA agent in Paris, and both are in danger.
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.
PLUNDER AND DECEIT, by Mark R. Levin. The talk-radio host urges young Americans to resist the statist masterminds who he says are burdening them with debt and inferior education.
EXCEPTIONAL, by Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney. The former vice president and his daughter chart their vision for a formidable future America.
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, by David McCullough. The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.
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.
MODERN ROMANCE, by Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg. The comedian enlists a sociologist to help him understand today’s dating scene.
RECKLESS, by Chrissie Hynde. The Pretenders’ front woman revisits four decades in the music industry.
ACCIDENTAL SAINTS, by Nadia Bolz-Weber. A comic turned pastor documents encounters with grace and finding divinity in unlikely places.
MY FIGHT/YOUR FIGHT, by Ronda Rousey with Maria Burns Ortiz. The UFC women’s bantamweight champion’s struggles to succeed.
NEUROTRIBES, by Steve Silberman. A science writer argues that conditions like autism are natural human variations with some adaptive elements, and surveys the history of autism and the current spike in diagnoses.
Paperback fiction
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.
GREY, by E. L. James. A Fifty Shades of Grey sequel, told from Christian’s point of view, revisits the tortured romance between the controlling billionaire and the unassuming Ana.
BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. A death at an elementary school’s trivia night reveals the rivalries among the parents and raises questions of murder.
THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. A Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
GRAY MOUNTAIN, by John Grisham. A laid-off lawyer, in a bid to reclaim her corporate perch, moves to an Appalachian mining town where her legal-aid work starts to rile Big Coal.
Paperback nonfiction
A WALK IN THE WOODS, by Bill Bryson. A journey to rediscover America by trekking the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail.
IT IS ABOUT ISLAM, by Glenn Beck. The talk-radio host looks to Muslim teachings for the roots of Islamic extremism.
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursues 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.
ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. The presidential candidate on what Americans need to do to save the country’s future.