Fiction
LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders. Visiting the grave of his recently deceased young son in 1862, Lincoln encounters a cemetery full of ghosts.
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.
HEARTBREAK HOTEL by Jonathan Kellerman. Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Lt. Milo Sturgis investigate the mysterious death of an elderly woman.
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.
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 GIRL BEFORE by J. P. 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.
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.
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.
THIS LIFE I LIVE by Rory Feek. The songwriter describes his difficult childhood, love for his wife, and her death from cancer in 2016.
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.
BIG AGENDA by David Horowitz. A battle plan for the Trump White House.
THE BOOK OF JOY by Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. Two spiritual leaders discuss how to find joy in the face of suffering.
THREE DAYS IN JANUARY by Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney. Eisenhower’s farewell address and his role in the Kennedy transition.
BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah. A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the comedian and host of The Daily Show.
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly. The black women mathematicians who worked at then-segregated NASA.
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.
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.
THE SHACK by William P. Young. A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur. Poetic approaches to surviving adversity and loss.
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.
THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE by Diane Ackerman. How a Warsaw couple sheltered Jews and members of the Resistance 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.
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO from texts by James Baldwin; edited by Raoul Peck. James Baldwin’s observations on racism in America.
LION by Saroo Brierley. How a 5-yearold Indian child who fell asleep on a train and ended up 1,000 miles from home discovers his roots.