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.
THE WHISTLER by John Grisham. A whistle-blower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the mob and Indian casinos.
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 GIRL BEFORE by JP Delaney. A sadistic architect builds a modern house that controls its young female inhabitants in this psychological thriller.
THE MISTRESS by Danielle Steel. The beautiful mistress of a Russian oligarch falls in love with an artist and yearns for freedom.
THE CHEMIST by Stephenie Meyer. A specialist in chemically controlled torture, on the run from her former employers, takes on one last job.
SMALL GREAT THINGS by Jodi Picoult. A medical crisis entangles a black nurse, a white supremacist father and a white lawyer.
POWER GAME by Christine Feehan. A super-soldier with enhanced abilities teams up with a genetically engineered spy in this GhostWalker novel.
DEATH’S MISTRESS by Terry Goodkind. The first book of a new series, the Nicci Chronicles, centers on a character from the Sword of Truth fantasy series.
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.
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.
THREE DAYS IN JANUARY by Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney. Eisenhower’s farewell address and his role in the Kennedy transition.
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 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.
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.
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 WIDOW by Fiona Barton. When a suspect in a missing-child case dies, reporters and the police wrongly think they’ll get the real story from his widow.
Paperback nonfiction
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly. The story, based in part on interviews, 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.
DARK MONEY by Jane Mayer. An account of how the Koch brothers and other super-wealthy donors deployed their money to change American politics.
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.