Fiction
THE RECKONING by John Grisham. A decorated World War II veteran shoots and kills a pastor inside a Mississippi church.
FIRE AND BLOOD by George R.R. Martin. Set 300 years before the events of A Game of Thrones, this is the first volume of the two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros.
EVERY BREATH by Nicholas Sparks. Difficult choices surface when Hope Anderson and Tru Walls meet in a North Carolina seaside town.
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens. A woman who survives alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect. 5. TARGET: ALEX CROSS by James Patterson. Alex Cross returns for the 26th book in the series bearing his name.
THE NEXT PERSON YOU MEET IN HEAVEN by Mitch Albom. The sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven follows Annie on her heavenly journey.
PAST TENSE by Lee Child. Jack Reacher explores the New England town where his father was born.
LONG ROAD TO MERCY by David Baldacci. Atlee Pine, an FBI agent who is haunted by the childhood kidnapping of her twin sister, must choose between protecting her career or the United States’ democracy.
NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty. A romance writer becomes fascinated by the owner and director of a health resort.
ELEVATION by Stephen King. A man who is losing weight without getting thinner forms an unlikely alliance with his neighbors who are dealing with prejudices.
Nonfiction
BECOMING by Michelle Obama. The former first lady describes her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House, and how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.
THE POINT OF IT ALL by Charles Krauthammer, edited by Daniel Krauthammer. A collection of essays, speeches and unpublished writings by the late conservative columnist.
EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists leaves home for university.
KILLING THE SS by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. A look at the post-war manhunt for members of Hitler’s inner circle.
LEADERSHIP by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The challenges that shaped the leadership abilities of four presidents.
BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS by Stephen Hawking. A collection of essays from the late scientist’s personal archive that address 10 imponderables. 7. THE FIFTH RISK by Michael Lewis. How the Trump administration staffs its federal agencies.
SHADE by Pete Souza. Pictures of former President Obama are juxtaposed with tweets, headlines and quotes from the Trump administration.
BEASTIE BOYS BOOK by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz. The story of the New York band who achieved hip hop stardom.
FEAR by Bob Woodward. Debates and decision-making within the Trump White House.
Paperback fiction
THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris. A concentration camp detainee tasked with permanently marking fellow prisoners falls in love with one of them.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur. A collection of poetry about love, loss, trauma and healing.
A DOG'S WAY HOME by W. Bruce Cameron. A dog sets out across 400 miles of wilderness to find the man who rescued her as a puppy.
ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by Gail Honeyman. A young woman's well-ordered life is disrupted by the I.T. guy from her office.
ONE DAY IN DECEMBER by Josie Silver. A woman spends a year searching for a man in London she believes, after a single glance, is her true love.
THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS by Rupi Kaur. A second collection of poetry from the author of Milk and Honey.
CRAZY RICH ASIANS by Kevin Kwan. A New Yorker gets a surprise when she spends the summer with her boyfriend in Singapore.
THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah. Two sisters in World War II France: one struggling to survive in the countryside, the other joining the Resistance.
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr. The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II
LESS by Andrew Sean Greer. To avoid an ex-boyfriend's wedding, a failed novelist attends literary events around the world.
Paperback nonfiction
SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari. How Homo sapiens became Earth's dominant species.
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 INNOCENT MAN by John Grisham. Grisham's first nonfiction book concerns a man wrongly sentenced to death.
DESTINY AND POWER by Jon Meacham. A biography of George H.W. Bush.
MY OWN WORDS by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams. A collection of articles and speeches by the Supreme Court justice.
SHOE DOG by Phil Knight. A memoir by the co-founder of Nike Inc.
WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo. Historical and cultural analyses on what causes defensive moves by white people.
ANDREW JACKSON AND THE MIRACLE OF NEW ORLEANS by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. Major General Jackson takes on the British in Louisiana.
HOMO DEUS by Yuval Noah Harari. A provocative look into the future by the author of Sapiens.
THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk. How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
Source: The New York Times
Editorial on 12/30/2018