Fiction
THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah. A former prisoner of war returns from Vietnam and moves his family to Alaska, where they face tough conditions.
FIFTY FIFTY by James Patterson and Candice Fox. Detective Harriet Blue tries to clear her brother’s name and save a small Australian town from being massacred.
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn. A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.
AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE by Tayari Jones. A newlywed couple’s relationship is tested when the husband is sentenced to 12 years in prison.
LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng. An artist upends a quiet suburb outside Cleveland.
RASPBERRY DANISH MURDER by Joanne Fluke. After her husband disappears, Hannah Swensen Barton searches for a killer while trying to fulfill holiday baking orders.
BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate. A South Carolina lawyer learns about the questionable practices of a Tennessee orphanage.
STILL ME by Jojo Moyes. Louisa Clark moves to New York and is torn between high society and the life she enjoys at a vintage clothing store.
THE HUSH by John Hart. Johnny Merrimon fights to keep the 6,000 acres of once-sacred land in North Carolina he inherited.
ORIGIN by Dan Brown. A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.
Nonfiction
FIRE AND FURY by Michael Wolff. A journalist offers an inside account of the first year of the Trump White House.
I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK by Michelle McNamara. The late true-crime journalist’s search for the serial murderer and rapist known as the Golden State Killer.
SKIN IN THE GAME by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. An argument for taking on risk.
EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
OBAMA by Pete Souza. More than 300 pictures of the former president by his White House photographer, with behind-the-scenes stories.
ENLIGHTENMENT NOW by Steven Pinker. A case for using reason, science and humanism to counter pessimistic views of Western civilization.
ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY by Neil deGrasse Tyson. A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the universe.
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by David Grann. The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians.
THE LAST BLACK UNICORN by Tiffany Haddish. The comedian recounts growing up in South Central Los Angeles and finding success after a period of homelessness.
BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah. A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of The Daily Show.
Paperback fiction
THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS by Rupi Kaur.
READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur.
SMALL GREAT THINGS by Jodi Picoult. 5. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME by André Aciman.
Paperback nonfiction
HORSE SOLDIERS by Doug Stanton.
BEING MORTAL by Atul Gawande.
THE POWER OF HABIT by Charles Duhigg.
EVICTED by Mathew Desmond.
THE NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander.