Fiction
NORSE MYTHOLOGY by Neil Gaiman. A retelling of Norse folklore.
ECHOES IN DEATH by J. D. Robb. Lt. Eve Dallas of the NYPD investigates a fatal home invasion. By Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
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 WHISTLER by John Grisham. A whistle-blower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the mob and Indian casinos.
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.
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 GIRL BEFORE by JP Delaney. A sadistic architect builds a modern house that controls its young female inhabitants in this psychological thriller, soon to be a major motion picture.
MY NOT SO PERFECT LIFE by Sophie Kinsella. A young woman fired from her job in London is forced to reconsider the meaning of success.
UNIVERSAL HARVESTER by John Darnielle. A mystery/thriller set in Iowa.
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.
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.
THREE DAYS IN JANUARY by Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney. Eisenhower’s farewell address and his role in the Kennedy transition.
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.
BIG AGENDA by David Horowitz. A battle plan for the Trump White House.
YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE by Deepak Chopra and Menas Kafatos. Defining a human universe in which each of us is a co-creator of reality.
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 UNDOING PROJECT by Michael Lewis. How psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky upended assumptions about the decision-making process.
Paperback fiction
A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman. A curmudgeon’s gruff exterior masks a generosity of spirit.
A DOG’S PURPOSE by W. Bruce Cameron. A canine narrator undergoes a series of reincarnations.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur. Poetic approaches to surviving adversity and loss.
THE SHACK by William P. Young. A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God.
THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood. In the Republic of Gilead’s dystopian future, men and women perform the services assigned to them.
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.
THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE by Diane Ackerman. How a Warsaw couple sheltered Jews and members of the Resistance during World War II.
ORIGINALS by Adam Grant. A Wharton School professor argues that innovators are made, not born, and offers suggestions for how to become one.
WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The adapted text of the much-watched TED talk by the Nigerian author.