Fiction
INTO THE WATER by Paula Hawkins. In this psychological thriller by the author of The Girl on the Train, women are found drowned in a river in an English town.
16TH SEDUCTION by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. In San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club face their toughest case yet.
AGAINST ALL ODDS by Danielle Steel. A mother must learn to let her adult children make their own decisions.
THE FIX by David Baldacci. Detective Amos Decker (Memory Man) witnesses a murder-suicide that turns out to be a matter of national security.
GOLDEN PREY by John Sandford. Lucas Davenport, now a U.S. Marshal, pursues a thief who robbed a drug cartel and killed a child in Biloxi, Miss.
THE THIRST by Jo Nesbo. Retired Inspector Harry Hole is drawn back to the Crime Squad by the case of a serial killer who targets women who use Tinder and apparently bites them to death.
SINCE WE FELL by Dennis Lehane. A woman struggles to understand who she really is, first searching for her father, then coping with a breakdown.
MEN WITHOUT WOMEN by Haruki Murakami. Seven stories by the Japanese writer.
THE BLACK BOOK by James Patterson and David Ellis. After a raid on a brothel that serviced Chicago’s elite, the madam’s black book has disappeared.
A DOG’S WAY HOME by W. Bruce Cameron. Separated from the man who rescued her as a puppy, a dog sets out across 400 miles of wilderness.
Nonfiction
OPTION B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant. Sandberg’s experience after her husband’s sudden death and Grant’s psychological research combine to provide insight of facing adversity and building resilience.
ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY by Neil deGrasse Tyson. A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the universe and the forces and laws that govern it.
SHATTERED by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. An examination of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
DEMOCRACY by Condoleezza Rice. The former secretary of state argues that the promotion of democracy should shape America’s foreign policy.
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by David Grann. The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. The fledgling FBI intervened, ineffectively.
HILLBILLY ELEGY by J. D. Vance. A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working class through his childhood.
THE AMERICAN SPIRIT by David Mc-Cullough. A collection of speeches by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, focused on American values.
THIS FIGHT IS OUR FIGHT by Elizabeth Warren. The Massachusetts senator offers a program for Democratic resistance to President Trump.
JACKIE’S GIRL by Kathy McKeon. Recollections from Jackie Kennedy’s longtime assistant.
TEAMMATE by David Ross with Don Yaeger. A life in baseball, by the (now retired) Chicago Cubs catcher.
Paperback fiction
THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood.
THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur.
LILAC GIRLS by Martha Hall Kelly.
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr.
Paperback nonfiction
THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE by Diane Ackerman.
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly.
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot.
ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder.
THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson.
Source: New York Times