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.
AFTERMATH: EMPIRE’S END by Chuck Wendig. The conclusion to the Star Wars trilogy set in the years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.
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 a mysterious death.
A CONJURING OF LIGHT by V. E. Schwab. The final book in the Shades of Magic fantasy series.
A PIECE OF THE WORLD by Christina Baker Kline. Imagining the life of the central figure of Andrew Wyeth’s iconic painting Christina’s World.
HUMANS, BOW DOWN by James Patterson and Emily Raymond with Jill Dembowski. After the Great War, a woman is determined to save humanity before the victorious robots wipe it out.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
THE GIRL BEFORE by J. P. Delaney. A sadistic architect builds a modern house that controls its young female inhabitants in this psychological thriller.
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.
HOMO DEUS by Yuval Noah Harari. A provocative look into the future by the author of Sapiens.
THE BOOK OF JOY by Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. Two spiritual leaders discuss how to find joy in the face of suffering.
BIG AGENDA by David Horowitz. A battle plan for the Trump White House.
THIS LIFE I LIVE by Rory Feek. The songwriter describes his difficult childhood, love for his wife, and her death from cancer in 2016.
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.
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.
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.
SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari. How Homo sapiens became the earth’s dominant species.
Paperback fiction
THE SHACK by William P. Young.
A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman.
BIG LITTLE LIES by Liane Moriarty.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur.
A DOG’S PURPOSE by W. Bruce Cameron.
Paperback nonfiction
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly.
THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE by Diane Ackerman.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON by Ron Chernow.
ORIGINALS by Adam Grant.
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO from texts by James Baldwin; edited by Raoul Peck.