Fiction
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
STING by Sandra Brown. A hired killer and a woman he kidnapped join forces to elude the FBI agents and others who are searching for her corrupt brother.
CURIOUS MINDS by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton. The first of a new series featuring Emerson Knight, an eccentric millionaire, and Riley Moon, an analyst at a mega-bank.
THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware. A travel writer on a cruise is certain she has heard a body thrown overboard, but no one believes her.
TRULY MADLY GUILTY by Liane Moriarty. Three couples at a backyard barbecue gone wrong.
DAMAGED by Lisa Scottoline. In the 15th Rosato & DiNunzio novel, Mary DiNunzio defends a dyslexic fifth-grader accused of attacking a school aide.
BULLSEYE by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. While the president of the United States is in New York to meet with his Russian counterpart, Detective Michael Bennett must stop a team of assassins.
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.
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.
THE GIRLS by Emma Cline. In the summer of 1969, a California teenager is drawn to a Manson-like cult.
Nonfiction
THE GIRL WITH THE LOWER BACK TATTOO by Amy Schumer. Humorous personal essays by the comedian, actor and writer.
HILLBILLY ELEGY by J. D. Vance. A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working class through his own childhood in the Rust Belt.
ARMAGEDDON by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. The political strategist offers a game plan for how to defeat Hillary Clinton.
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.
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America.
HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter. The libretto of the award-winning musical, with backstage photos, a production history and interviews with the cast.
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.
WHITE TRASH by Nancy Isenberg. The role of the white poor in American history.
GRIT by Angela Duckworth. A psychologist says passion and perseverance are the keys to success.
AMERICAN HEIRESS by Jeffrey Toobin. The story of Patty Hearst’s kidnapping in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army, her crimes and her trial.
Paperback fiction
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in the environs of London is full of complications and betrayals.
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.
SEE ME by Nicholas Sparks. A couple in love are threatened by secrets from the past.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur. A collection of poetry about love, loss, trauma and healing.
THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M. L. Stedman. An Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife decide to keep a baby who has washed ashore.
Paperback nonfiction
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.
OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed.
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.
SULLY by Chesley B. Sullenberger III with Jeffrey Zaslow. A memoir by the pilot who performed the successful emergency landing of a plane with 155 passengers on the Hudson River in 2009.