Fiction
DANGEROUS GAMES by Danielle Steel. A television correspondent investigates damning allegations against the vice president of the United States.
SILENCE FALLEN by Patricia Briggs. Shape-shifter Mercy Thompson finds herself in the clutches of the world’s most powerful vampire.
NORSE MYTHOLOGY by Neil Gaiman. A retelling of Norse folklore.
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.
EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid. Lovers in a city overwhelmed with violence hear about mysterious doors that will carry them into an alien and uncertain future.
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles. A Russian count undergoes 30 years of house arrest.
HEARTBREAK HOTEL by Jonathan Kellerman. Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Lt. Milo Sturgis investigate a mysterious death.
THE WHISTLER by John Grisham. A whistle-blower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the mob and Indian casinos.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
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.
Nonfiction
PORTRAITS OF COURAGE by George W. Bush. Sixty-six color paintings and a four-panel mural, accompanied by brief biographies, show members of the military who have served since 9/11. By the former president.
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.
DEAR IJEAWELE by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A feminist manifesto in 15 suggestions for empowering a daughter to become a strong, independent woman.
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.
THE BOOK OF JOY by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams. 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.
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.
SOUTH AND WEST by Joan Didion. Notebook excerpts about a Southern road trip and Patty Hearst’s trial.
THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE by Thomas L. Friedman. How globalization, climate change and the accelerating pace of technology are reshaping the world.
Paperback fiction
THE SHACK by William P. Young.
A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur.
BIG LITTLE LIES by Liane Moriarty.
A DOG’S PURPOSE by W. Bruce Cameron.
Paperback nonfiction
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly.
THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE by Diane Ackerman.
ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder.
LION by Saroo Brierley.
WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.