Fiction
- MR. MERCEDES, by Stephen King. A driver plows into a crowd at a job fair, killing eight. The killer then taunts a suicidal ex-cop, who must stop another even deadlier attack.
- SKIN GAME, by Jim Butcher. Chicago wizard Harry Dresden is forced to help an enemy break into a high-security vault; the 15th Dresden Files novel.
- THE HURRICANE SISTERS, by Dorothea Benton Frank. Three generations of women endure a stormy summer in South Carolina's low country.
- THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.
- A SHIVER OF LIGHT, by Laurell K. Hamilton. In the ninth Meredith Gentry paranormal romance, Merry must save herself and her triplets from Taranis, King of Light and Illusion.
- MIDNIGHT IN EUROPE, by Alan Furst. A Spanish lawyer working in Paris on the eve of World War II joins a mission to help the Republican troops.
- THE ONE AND ONLY, by Emily Giffin. A woman who has grown up and made her life in a small football-obsessed Texas town begins to expand her horizons.
- THE SMOKE AT DAWN, by Jeff Shaara. In the summer of 1863, the stage is set for a confrontation at Chattanooga, Tennessee, that could determine the fate of the divided nation; the third book in a series about the Civil War.
- SAVE THE DATE, by Mary Kay Andrews. A wedding florist tries to shore up her career with Savannah's society event of the season. But she has competition and complications.
- CHINA DOLLS, by Lisa See. Three Asian American women meet in San Francisco in 1938 at the Forbidden City nightclub.
Nonfiction
- ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. Ben Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon and now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems in health and education based on capitalism, not government.
- CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by Thomas Piketty. A French economist's analysis of centuries of economic history predicts worsening inequality and proposes solutions.
- THE CLOSER, by Mariano Rivera with Wayne Coffey. A memoir of life and baseball by the great Yankees pitcher.
- THINK LIKE A FREAK, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. How to solve problems creatively from the authors of Freakonomics.
- UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his plane went down over the Pacific.
- FLASH BOYS, by Michael Lewis. The world of high-frequency computer-driven trading, from the author of Liar's Poker.
- FINDING ME, by Michelle Knight with Michelle Burford. The story of a woman kidnapped in Cleveland in 2002 who escaped in 2013.
- NO PLACE TO HIDE, by Glenn Greenwald. The journalist, part of the Guardian team that won a 2014 Pulitzer Prize, presents new material about NSA surveillance and describes his work with Edward Snowden.
- SPECIAL HEART, by Bret Baier with Jim Mills. A Fox News anchor on the challenges his family faced in caring for his son, who has congenital heart disease.
- DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell. How disadvantages can work in our favor; from the author of The Tipping Point.
Paperback fiction
- GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer?
- ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Kline. A historical novel about orphans swept off the streets of New York and sent to the Midwest in the 1920s.
- AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED, by Khaled Hosseini. A multigenerational family saga, centering on a brother and sister from a remote, impoverished village in Afghanistan.
- THE LONGEST RIDE, by Nicholas Sparks. The lives of two couples converge unexpectedly. While 91-year-old Ira is visited by his beloved wife (who died years earlier), Sophia, a college student, is enthralled by a young cowboy.
- THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
Paperback nonfiction
- HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A father recounts his 3-year-old son's encounter with Jesus and the angels during an emergency appendectomy.
- THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. The University of Washington's eight-oar crew and their quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
- LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson.The only survivor of a Navy SEALs operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle and his escape. First published in 2007.
- OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed; it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
- LET'S EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS, by David Sedaris. A humorist returns with more wry takes on contemporary life.
Editorial on 06/22/2014