Best-sellers

Fiction

  1. THE FIREMAN by Joe Hill. During an epidemic that causes people to spontaneously combust, an infected New Hampshire nurse fights to stay alive, aided by a mysterious figure known as the Fireman.

  2. 15TH AFFAIR by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. A brutal murder threatens the domestic happiness of San Francisco police detective Lindsay Boxer, who turns for help to the Women’s Murder Club.

  3. THE WEEKENDERS by Mary Kay Andrews. On the North Carolina island of Belle Isle, a woman investigates her husband’s shady financial affairs after his mysterious death.

  4. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in the environs of London.

  5. THE LAST MILE by David Baldacci. In a sequel to Memory Man, Amos Decker, a detective with an extraordinary memory, helps the FBI investigate the case of a convicted killer who wins a last-minute reprieve.

  6. THE NEST by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. Siblings in a dysfunctional New York family must grapple with a reduced inheritance.

  7. BEYOND THE ICE LIMIT by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. In a sequel to The Ice Limit (2000), Gideon Crew pursues a meteorite that has sunk to the ocean floor. Or is it only a meteorite?

  8. EVERYBODY’S FOOL by Richard Russo. We’re back in North Bath, N.Y., in a sequel to Nobody’s Fool.

  9. EXTREME PREY by John Sandford. Lucas Davenport, who has left the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is in Iowa trying to foil a plot to assassinate a Hillary Clinton-like candidate. The 26th Lucas Davenport thriller.

  10. THE HIGHWAYMAN by Craig Johnson. Wyoming’s Sheriff Walt Longmire (the inspiration of Netflix series Longmire) encounters the supernatural in this novella.

Nonfiction

  1. THE GENE by Siddhartha Mukherjee. This overview of the history and science of genetics also considers moral questions and prospects for future advances in treating disease.

  2. HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter. The libretto of the Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, annotated by its creator, along with backstage photos, a production history and interviews with the cast.

  3. GRIT by Angela Duckworth. A psychologist and consultant argues that passion and perseverance are the keys to success.

  4. 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.

  5. VALIANT AMBITION by Nathaniel Philbrick. The relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold.

  6. THE RAINBOW COMES AND GOES by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt. Mother and son discuss their relationship and difficult family history.

  7. SHOE DOG by Phil Knight. A memoir by the founder of Nike.

  8. FIVE PRESIDENTS by Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin. A retired Secret Service agent discusses his experience with presidents from Eisenhower to Ford.

  9. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America; winner of the National Book Award.

  10. 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.

Paperback fiction

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

3.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.

  1. THE SYMPATHIZER by Viet Thanh Nguyen. A conflicted Vietnamese Army officer living in America after the Vietnam War becomes a Communist spy.

  2. A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD by Anne Tyler. Four generations of a family are drawn to a house in the Baltimore suburbs.

Paperback nonfiction

  1. 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.

  2. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT by Daniel James Brown. American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.

  3. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS by David McCullough. The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.

  4. DEAD WAKE by Erik Larson. The tragic final voyage of the luxury ship Lusitania, sunk by a German submarine in 1915.

  5. I AM MALALA by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and teenage activist recounts her path to learning.

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