Fiction
COME RAIN OR COME SHINE, by Jan Karon. Dooley, the adopted son of the Mitford character Father Tim Kavanagh, marries his childhood sweetheart.
MAKE ME, by Lee Child. In his 20th appearance, Jack Reacher takes on a missing-persons case.
THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB, by David Lagercrantz. Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are back in this continuation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series.
GO SET A WATCHMAN, by Harper Lee. In the mid-1950s, a grown-up Jean Louise Finch returns home to find that her adored father is not as perfect as she believed.
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.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in the environs of London.
X, by Sue Grafton. A variety of X's lead Kinsey Millhone onto the trail of a cold case.
FATES AND FURIES, by Lauren Groff. A marriage viewed from two perspectives.
PURITY, by Jonathan Franzen. A recent college graduate, a German Julian Assange-like activist, an investigative reporter and an heiress in flight from her past strive for integrity and wrestle with secrets.
DEVOTED IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. Lt. Eve Dallas races the clock to save a woman kidnapped by a couple on a murder spree; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
Nonfiction
KILLING REAGAN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of The O'Reilly Factor recounts the events surrounding the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981.
WHY NOT ME?, by Mindy Kaling. Personal essays from the comedian and actress.
FURIOUSLY HAPPY, by Jenny Lawson. A humorous treatment of the author's life with depression and anxiety disorder.
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story by the national correspondent of the Atlantic, framed as a letter to his teenage son.
BEING MORTAL, by Atul Gawande. The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life and how they can do better.
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, by David McCullough. The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.
PLUNDER AND DECEIT, by Mark R. Levin. The talk-radio host urges young Americans to resist the statist masterminds who, he says, are burdening them with debt and inferior education.
ACCIDENTAL SAINTS, by Nadia Bolz-Weber. A comic turned pastor documents encounters with grace.
1944, by Jay Winik. A pivotal year that saw D-Day, the liberation of Paris, Franklin Roosevelt's re-election and the Battle of the Bulge.
KILLING THE MESSENGER, by David Brock. A former right-wing operative describes his transformation and passionately defends Hillary Clinton.
Paperback fiction
THE MARTIAN, by Andy Weir. After a dust storm forces his crew to abandon him, an astronaut embarks on a dogged quest to stay alive on Mars.
MEMORY MAN, by David Baldacci. With the blessing and curse of perfect recall, a former police detective seizes a chance to solve his family's murder.
EVE, by Wm. Paul Young. In this novel based on the Creation narrative, a young woman washes up on a shore between this world and the next.
GREY, by E. L. James. A Fifty Shades of Grey sequel, told from Christian's point of view, revisits the tortured romance between the controlling billionaire and the unassuming Ana.
GRAY MOUNTAIN, by John Grisham. A laid-off lawyer, in a bid to reclaim her corporate perch, moves to an Appalachian mining town where her legal-aid work starts to rile Big Coal.
Paperback nonfiction
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursues gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. The Nobel Peace Prize-winner and teenage activist recounts her path to learning.
A WALK IN THE WOODS, by Bill Bryson. A journey to rediscover America by trekking the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail.
IT IS ABOUT ISLAM, by Glenn Beck. The talk-radio host looks to Muslim teachings for the roots of Islamic extremism.
KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. The television host recounts the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Source: New York Times
Editorial on 10/11/2015