Fiction
CIRCE by Madeline Miller. Zeus banishes Helios’ daughter to an island, where she must choose between living with gods or mortals.
AFTER ANNA by Lisa Scottoline. A woman marries a widower and reunites with her teenage daughter who is murdered soon after, and the husband is put on trial for it.
I’VE GOT MY EYES ON YOU by Mary Higgins Clark. A high school guidance counselor tries to uncover the identity of her sister’s murderer.
THE THIEF by J.R. Ward. The 16th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Sola Morte falls for a man who sells weapons to a group of vampire warriors.
SHOOT FIRST by Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington searches for the person who plotted to kill the woman behind a cutting-edge software startup.
THE FEMALE PERSUASION by Meg Wolitzer. The relationship between a college freshman and a famous feminist reveals the challenges of inter-generational feminism.
THE SIXTH DAY by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison. The fifth book in the A Brit in the FBI series. After the German vice chancellor dies, special agents investigate one of Dracula’s descendants.
LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng. An artist upends a quiet suburb outside Cleveland.
BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate. A South Carolina lawyer learns about the questionable practices of a Tennessee orphanage.
RED ALERT by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. The fifth book in the NYPD Red series. Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie Mac-Donald investigate the death of a documentary filmmaker and an explosion at a charity benefit.
Nonfiction
FASCISM: A WARNING by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward. The former secretary of state examines the legacy of fascism in the 20th century and its potential revival.
RUSSIAN ROULETTE by Michael Isikoff and David Corn. Details of the 2016 presidential election, with an emphasis on Russia’s possible involvement.
ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY by Neil deGrasse Tyson. A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the universe.
I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK by Michelle Mc-Namara. The late true-crime journalist’s search for the serial murderer and rapist known as the Golden State Killer.
FACTFULNESS by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund. A look at our biases and the argument for why the world is in a better state than we might think.
EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
NATURAL CAUSES by Barbara Ehrenreich. A look at aging, the ways people try to control the inevitable, and strategies for accepting mortality.
SECRET EMPIRES by Peter Schweizer. The author of Clinton Cash describes what some politicians might do to enrich themselves while in office.
TIGER WOODS by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian. A deeper look at the personal and professional triumphs and disasters of the champion golfer.
FIRE AND FURY by Michael Wolff. A journalist offers an inside account of the first year of the Trump White House.
Paperback fiction
READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur.
THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS by Rupi Kaur.
CAMINO ISLAND by John Grisham.
THE LYING GAME by Ruth Ware.
Paperback nonfiction
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by David Grann.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME by Stephen Hawking.
EVICTED by Matthew Desmond.
ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder.
BEING MORTAL by Atul Gawande.