Fiction
THE BLACK WIDOW by Daniel Silva. Israeli art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon recruits and trains a doctor from Jerusalem to help capture a secret ISIS terrorist in France.
THE GIRLS by Emma Cline. In the summer of 1969, a California teenager is drawn to a Manson-like cult.
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.
MAGIC by Danielle Steel. A year in the intertwined lives of three international couples who participate in a special dinner in Paris.
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 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.
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.
LIFE DEBT: AFTERMATH by Chuck Wendig. The continuation of Star Wars: Aftermath and the third book of the Aftermath trilogy is set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.
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.
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.
BILL O’REILLY’S LEGENDS AND LIES: THE PATRIOTS by David Fisher. Stories of the American Revolution.
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America.
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.
FREEDOM by Jaycee Dugard. In a follow-up to A Stolen Life, Dugard, who was kidnapped as a child and held for 18 years, describes her adjustment to a new life.
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.
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.
YOU’LL GROW OUT OF IT by Jessi Klein. Humorous essays on being a woman by the head writer of Inside Amy Schumer.
Paperback fiction
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller full of complications and betrayals is set in the environs of London.
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.
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.
JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson. A law professor and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.
THE NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander. A law professor takes aim at the war on drugs and its impact on black men.
OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed.