Fiction
NEVER NEVER by James Patterson and Candice Fox. Harriet Blue, a Sydney sex crimes detective, is sent to the outback to investigate the disappearance of a mine worker. The first in a new series.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
TWO BY TWO by Nicholas Sparks. A man who became a single father when his marriage and business collapsed learns to take a chance on a new love.
THE WHISTLER by John Grisham. A whistle-blower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the mob and Indian casinos.
THE MISTRESS by Danielle Steel. The beautiful mistress of a Russian oligarch falls in love with an artist and yearns for freedom.
FEVERSONG by Karen Marie Moning. A group of super-human beings fight to save Dublin (and humanity); the conclusion of the Fever series.
CROSS THE LINE by James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross and his wife Bree team up to catch a killer causing chaos in Washington, D.C.
SMALL GREAT THINGS by Jodi Picoult. A medical crisis entangles a black nurse, a white supremacist father and a white lawyer.
BELOW THE BELT by Stuart Woods. New York lawyer Stone Barrington faces danger when he finds himself in possession of a retired CIA agent's explosive memoir.
THE CHEMIST by Stephenie Meyer. A specialist in chemically controlled torture, on the run from her former employers, takes on one last job.
Nonfiction
HILLBILLY ELEGY by J. D. Vance. A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America's white working class through his childhood in the Rust Belt.
THREE DAYS IN JANUARY by Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney. Eisenhower's farewell address and his role in the Kennedy transition.
KILLING THE RISING SUN by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of The O'Reilly Factor recounts the final years of World War II.
THE MAGNOLIA STORY by Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with Mark Dagostino. The lives of the couple who star in the HGTV show Fixer Upper.
THE BOOK OF JOY by Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. A discussion between two spiritual leaders about how to find joy in the face of suffering.
THE UNDOING PROJECT by Michael Lewis. How psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky upended assumptions about the decision-making process and invented the field of behavioral economics.
THE PRINCESS DIARIST by Carrie Fisher. Recollections of life on the set of the first Star Wars movie by the actress and writer, who died in December.
TEARS WE CANNOT STOP by Michael Eric Dyson. A frank and searing discussion of race.
THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD by Douglas Preston. A frightening search for a lost civilization in the Honduran rain forest.
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly. The black women mathematicians who worked at then-segregated NASA.
Paperback fiction
A DOG'S PURPOSE by W. Bruce Cameron. A canine narrator undergoes a series of reincarnations.
A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman. A curmudgeon's gruff exterior masks a generosity of spirit. Originally published in Sweden in 2014.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur. Poetic approaches to surviving adversity and loss.
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.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in the environs of London is full of complications and betrayals.
Paperback nonfiction
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly. The story of the black women mathematicians who were hired as "computers" by the precursor of NASA during World War II.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON by Ron Chernow. A biography of the first Treasury secretary. Originally published in 2004 and the basis of the Broadway musical.
WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The adapted text of the much-watched TED talk by the Nigerian author.
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman. How we make choices in our business and personal lives.
THE NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander. A law professor on the war on drugs and its role in the disproportionate incarceration of black men.
Source: New York Times
Editorial on 02/05/2017