Fiction
A GREAT RECKONING by Louise Penny. An instructor at the police academy is found murdered, perhaps by one of the cadets favored by Armand Gamache, the retired homicide chief of the Sûreté du Québec.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
RUSHING WATERS by Danielle Steel. Six people cope with a hurricane in New York City.
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.
THE NIX by Nathan Hill. An aspiring writer who spends too much time playing video games investigates the past of the mother who abandoned him.
TRULY MADLY GUILTY by Liane Moriarty. Three couples at a backyard barbecue gone wrong.
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 JEALOUS KIND by James Lee Burke. A coming-of-age story set in 1952 Houston and featuring a member of the Holland family completes a trilogy with Wayfaring Stranger and Rising Sun.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ARMAGEDDON by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. The political strategist offers a game plan for how to defeat Hillary Clinton.
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.
THE PERFECT HORSE by Elizabeth Letts. The attempt in the closing days of World War II to rescue purebred horses raised for Hitler.
GRIT by Angela Duckworth. A psychologist says passion and perseverance are the keys to success.
WHITE TRASH by Nancy Isenberg. The role of the white poor in American history.
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.
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.
THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M. L. Stedman. An Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife decide to keep a baby who has washed ashore.
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.
Paperback nonfiction
OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed
SULLY by Chesley B. Sullenberger III and 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.
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 NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander. A law professor takes aim at the “war on drugs” and its impact on black men.
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.