Best-sellers
Fiction
THE 19TH CHRISTMAS by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. In the 19th installment of the Women's Murder Club series, detective Lindsay Boxer and company take on a fearsome criminal known only as Loman.
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens. A woman who survives alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
WHAT HAPPENS IN PARADISE by Elin Hilderbrand. In the sequel to Winter in Paradise, Irene Steele visits the island of St. John to get to the bottom of the mysterious life and death of her husband.
NINTH HOUSE by Leigh Bardugo. After surviving a multiple homicide, Galaxy Stern comes face to face with dark magic, murder and more at Yale University.
THE INSTITUTE by Stephen King. Children with special talents are abducted and sequestered in an institution where the sinister staff seeks to extract their gifts through harsh methods.
THE WATER DANCER by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A young man who was gifted with a mysterious power becomes part of a war between slavers and the enslaved.
THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett. A sibling relationship is impacted when the family goes from poverty to wealth and back again over the course of many decades.
THE TESTAMENTS by Margaret Atwood. In a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, old secrets bring three women together as the Republic of Gilead's theocratic regime shows signs of decay.
CHILD'S PLAY by Danielle Steel. A prestigious New York lawyer learns that the life she constructed for her children and herself isn't exactly what she thought it was.
THE GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes. In Depression-era America, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books throughout the mountains of Kentucky.
Nonfiction
BLOWOUT by Rachel Maddow. The MSNBC host argues that the global oil and gas industry has weakened democracies and bolstered authoritarians.
TALKING TO STRANGERS by Malcolm Gladwell. Famous examples of miscommunication serve as the backdrop to explain potential conflicts and misunderstandings.
WITCH HUNT by Gregg Jarrett. The Fox News commentator offers his analysis of the Mueller Report.
THE UNITED STATES OF TRUMP by Bill O'Reilly. The conservative commentator weaves interviews and personal history to portray the power and influence of the 45th president.
THE BOOK OF GUTSY WOMEN by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton. Profiles of women from around the world who have blazed trails and challenged the status quo.
TOUGH LOVE by Susan Rice. The former national security adviser and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations gives an insider's perspective on some of the country's most pivotal moments of the 21st century.
EDUCATED by Tara Westover. The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
INSIDE OUT by Demi Moore. The Hollywood star chronicles the rocky relationships, body image issues and public perceptions that affected her attempts to balance family and fame.
DEEP STATE by James B. Stewart.The New York Times columnist gives a deconstruction of the various accounts of what happened leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
LETTERS FROM AN ASTROPHYSICIST by Neil deGrasse Tyson. In a hand-picked collection of 101 letters, the celebrity astrophysicist answers a vast array of questions from science to faith and Pluto.
Paperback fiction
THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah.
THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris.
REDEMPTION by David Baldacci.
THE 18TH ABDUCTION by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood.
Paperback nonfiction
ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder.
SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.
BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah.
THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk.
WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo.
Source: The New York Times
Editorial on 10/27/2019