Fiction
NORSE MYTHOLOGY by Neil Gaiman. A retelling of Norse folklore.
LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders. Visiting the grave of his recently deceased young son in 1862, Lincoln encounters a cemetery full of ghosts.
BANANA CREAM PIE MURDER by Joanne Fluke. Hannah Swensen, bakery owner and amateur sleuth of Lake Eden, Minn., returns from her honeymoon to confront an actress’ mysterious death.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
ECHOES IN DEATH by J. D. Robb. Lt. Eve Dallas of the NYPD investigates a fatal home invasion. By Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
HEARTBREAK HOTEL by Jonathan Kellerman. Psychologist Alex Delaware and the LAPD’s Lt. Milo Sturgis investigate a mysterious death.
HUMANS, BOW DOWN by James Patterson and Emily Raymond with Jill Dembowski. After the Great War, a woman is determined to save humanity before the victorious robots wipe it out.
A PIECE OF THE WORLD by Christina Baker Kline. Imagining the life of the central figure of Andrew Wyeth’s iconic painting Christina’s World.
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles. A Russian count undergoes 30 years of house arrest.
THE WHISTLER by John Grisham. A whistle-blower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the mob and Indian casinos.
Nonfiction
PORTRAITS OF COURAGE by George W. Bush. Sixty-six color paintings and a four-panel mural, accompanied by brief biographies, show members of the military who have served since 9/11. By the former president.
HILLBILLY ELEGY by J. D. Vance. A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working class through his childhood in the Rust Belt.
KILLING THE RISING SUN by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of The O’Reilly Factor recounts the final years of World War II.
THE BOOK OF JOY by Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. Two spiritual leaders discuss how to find joy in the face of suffering.
HOMO DEUS by Yuval Noah Harari. A provocative look into the future by the author of Sapiens.
BIG AGENDA by David Horowitz. A battle plan for the Trump White House.
THE MAGNOLIA STORY by Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with Mark Dagostino. The lives of the couple who star in the HGTV show Fixer Upper.
THIS LIFE I LIVE by Rory Feek. The songwriter describes his difficult childhood, love for his wife, and her death from cancer in 2016.
SAPIENS by Yuval Noah. How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species.
WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR by Paul Kalanithi. A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.
Paperback fiction
THE SHACK by William P. Young.
A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur.
BIG LITTLE LIES by Liane Moriarty.
LILAC GIRLS by Martha Hall Kelly.
Paperback nonfiction
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly.
THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE by Diane Ackerman.
DERELICTION OF DUTY by H. R. Mc-Master.
LION by Saroo Brierley.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON by Ron Chernow.