Best-sellers
Fiction
15TH AFFAIR, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. A brutal murder threatens the domestic happiness of the San Francisco police detective Lindsay Boxer, who turns for help to the Women’s Murder Club.
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.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in the environs of London.
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.
THE NEST, by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. Siblings in a dysfunctional New York family must grapple with a reduced inheritance.
THE APARTMENT, by Danielle Steel. Four young women share a Hell’s Kitchen loft.
EVERYBODY’S FOOL, by Richard Russo. We’re back in North Bath, N.Y., in a sequel to Nobody’s Fool.
LAROSE, by Louise Erdrich. A North Dakota man who accidentally kills his best friend’s son gives up his own boy in exchange.
ELIGIBLE, by Curtis Sittenfeld. The author of Prep and American Wife retells Pride and Prejudice, set in the Cincinnati suburbs in the present.
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
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.
THE RAINBOW COMES AND GOES, by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt. Mother and son discuss their relationship and difficult family history.
GRIT, by Angela Duckworth. A psychologist and consultant argues that passion and perseverance are the keys to success.
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.
VALIANT AMBITION, by Nathaniel Philbrick. The relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold.
6, SHOE DOG, by Phil Knight. A memoir by the founder of Nike.
FIVE PRESIDENTS, by Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin. A retired Secret Service agent discusses his experience with presidents from Eisenhower to Ford.
BECOMING GRANDMA, by Lesley Stahl. The reporter investigates how “grandmothering” transforms a woman’s life.
RED PLATOON, by Clinton Romesha. The deadly 13-hour battle for a remote combat outpost in Afghanistan in 2009, by a soldier who received the Medal of Honor.
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America.
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.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.
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.
THE SYMPATHIZER, by Viet Thanh Nguyen. A conflicted Vietnamese Army officer living in America after the Vietnam War becomes a Communist spy.
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-winning hip-hop musical Hamilton.
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, by David McCullough. The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
DEAD WAKE, by Erik Larson. The tragic final voyage of the luxury ship Lusitania, sunk by a German submarine in 1915.
I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and teenage activist recounts her path to learning.