Fiction
MAGIC by Danielle Steel. A year in the intertwined lives of three international couples who participate in a special dinner in Paris.
FIRST COMES LOVE by Emily Giffin. Two sisters—one a successful lawyer with a small child and an unhappy marriage, the other a single teacher who yearns to be a mother—struggle toward forgiveness after 15 years of estrangement.
THE GIRLS by Emma Cline. A California teenager is drawn to a Manson-like cult in the summer of 1969.
THE GAMES by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan. Hired by Olympic organizers to protect the Rio games, Jack Morgan of Private, an international security and consulting firm, encounters dangerous threats.
END OF WATCH by Stephen King. The conclusion of the Bill Hodges trilogy.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in the environs of London.
AFTER YOU by Jojo Moyes. In a sequel to Me Before You, Louisa Clark tries to put her life back together after the death of Will Traynor.
HERE’S TO US by Elin Hilderbrand. Sparks fly as a celebrity chef’s ex-wives pile into a small cabin in Nantucket to join his widow for the reading of his will.
BEFORE THE FALL by Noah Hawley. After a private jet crashes, a firestorm of media madness ensues.
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.
Nonfiction
CRISIS OF CHARACTER by Gary J. Byrne with Grant M. Schmidt. A former Secret Service officer claims to have witnessed scandalous behavior by the Clintons.
HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter. The libretto of the Grammy-, Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, annotated by its creator, along with backstage photos, a production history and interviews with the cast.
WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR by Paul Kalanithi. A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.
BILL O’REILLY’S LEGENDS AND LIES: THE PATRIOTS by David Fisher. Stories of the American Revolution.
WAKE UP AMERICA by Eric Bolling. The Fox News Channel personality describes nine key American virtues that he maintains are under attack by President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America.
GRIT by Angela Duckworth. A psychologist argues that passion and perseverance are the keys to success.
WHITE TRASH by Nancy Isenberg. The role of the white poor in American history.
BUT WHAT IF WE’RE WRONG? by Chuck Klosterman. Imagining the contemporary world as it will appear to those for whom it will be the distant past.
TRIBE by Sebastian Junger. How modern society’s loss of the sense of belonging has led to income inequality, incivility and mental disorders like PTSD.
Paperback fiction
ME BEFORE YOU by Jojo Moyes. A young woman who has barely been farther afield than her English village finds herself while caring for a wealthy, embittered quadriplegic.
A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman. An angry old curmudgeon gets new next-door neighbors, and things are about to change for all of them.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur. A collection of poetry about love, loss, trauma and healing.
MY GRANDMOTHER ASKED ME TO TELL YOU SHE’S SORRY by Fredrik Backman. A girl is instructed to deliver a series of letters after her grandmother dies.
THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho. A Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
Paperback nonfiction
ALEXANDER HAMILTON by Ron Chernow. First published in 2004, this biography of a founding father was turned into the Pulitzer Prize-winning hip-hop musical Hamilton.
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT by Daniel James Brown. American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed.
MODERN ROMANCE by Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg. The comedian enlists a sociologist to help him understand today’s dating scene.
THE NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander. A law professor takes aim at the “war on drugs” and its impact on black men.