Fiction
RIGHT BEHIND YOU by Lisa Gardner. Former FBI profiler Pierce Quincy and his partner Rainie Conner foster a girl whose older brother murdered their drunken father. Now, eight years later, he has killed again.
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 GIRL BEFORE by JP Delaney. A sadistic architect builds a modern house that controls its young female inhabitants in this psychological thriller.
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.
SMALL GREAT THINGS by Jodi Picoult. A medical crisis entangles a black nurse, a white supremacist father and a white lawyer.
THE PRISONER by Alex Berenson. In the 11th John Wells novel, the former CIA agent goes undercover as a jihadi in order to investigate a suspected mole.
THE MISTRESS by Danielle Steel. The beautiful mistress of a Russian oligarch yearns for freedom.
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles. A Russian count undergoes 30 years of house arrest.
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.
TEARS WE CANNOT STOP by Michael Eric Dyson. A frank and searing discussion of race.
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly. The black women mathematicians who worked at then-segregated NASA.
THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD by Douglas Preston. A frightening search for a lost civilization in the Honduran rain forest.
THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE by Thomas L. Friedman. How globalization, climate change and the accelerating pace of technology are reshaping the world.
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.
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.
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 SHACK by William P. Young. A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God.
Paperback nonfiction
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly. The story of the black women mathematicians at then-segregated NASA and its precursor.
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.
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.
DARK MONEY by Jane Mayer. An account of how the Koch brothers and other super-wealthy donors deployed their money to change American politics.
Source: New York Times