Fiction
- AS TIME GOES BY, by Mary Higgins Clark. Secrets emerge when a television journalist searching for her birth mother covers the trial of the widow of a wealthy doctor.
- THE BEAST, by J. R. Ward. Book 14 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
- THE NEST, by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. Siblings in a dysfunctional New York family must grapple with a reduced inheritance.
- FOOL ME ONCE, by Harlan Coben. A retired Army helicopter pilot faces combat- related nightmares and mysteries concerning the deaths of her husband and sister.
- THE 14TH COLONY, by Steve Berry. Covert operative Cotton Malone must thwart an agent loyal to the former Soviet Union.
- MILLER’S VALLEY, by Anna Quindlen. A young woman comes of age during an assault on the land and the people she loves.
- FAMILY JEWELS, by Stuart Woods. In the 37th Stone Barrington novel, the lawyer becomes entangled in a mystery involving a wealthy woman’s ex-husband.
- THE NIGHTINGALE, by Kristin Hannah. Two sisters in World War II France: one struggling to survive in the countryside, the other joining the Resistance in Paris.
- 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 SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR, by Helen Simonson. Life in Sussex, England, at the beginning of World War I.
Nonfiction
- THE RAINBOW COMES AND GOES, by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt. Mother and son discuss their relationship and difficult family history.
- THE SLEEP REVOLUTION, by Arianna Huffington.What scientific research reveals about the dangers of sleep deprivation, and tips for achieving better sleep habits. By the founder of The Huffington Post.
- 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.
- THE THIRD WAVE, by Steve Case. In the current era, entrepreneurs will use technology to revolutionize various sectors of the economy.
- BOOK OF AGES, by Jill Lepore. Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister, Jane Franklin Mecom (1712-94), married at 15, bore 12 children and led a life of hardship. But she was also a shrewd political commentator, and her correspondence with her brother stretched across more than 60 years. Originally published in 2013.
- LOOK ME IN THE EYE, by John Elder Robison. A life with Asperger’s syndrome; first published in 2007.
- DEAD WAKE, by Erik Larson. The last voyage of the Lusitania, the passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo in 1915.
- DISRUPTED, by Dan Lyons. A longtime tech writer, age 52, takes a job at a startup called HubSpot.
- ALEXANDER HAMILTON, by Ron Chernow. A biography of the first Treasury secretary, a major author of the Federalist Papers and an advocate of strong central government. Originally published in 2004 and the basis of the Broadway musical.
- BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America.
Paperback fiction
- ONE WITH YOU, by Sylvia Day. Fighting for the love to which they have committed could set Gideon and Eva free, or break them apart; the finale of the Crossfire series.
- ME BEFORE YOU, by Jojo Moyes. A young woman who has barely been farther afield than her English village finds herself while caring for a wealthy, embittered quadriplegic.
- THE MURDER HOUSE, by James Patterson and David Ellis. When bodies are found at a Hamptons estate where a series of grisly murders once occurred, a local detective and former New York City cop investigates.
- LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE, by Jessica Knoll. The life of a successful New York magazine writer is shaken when secrets from her past are revealed.
- THE GUILTY, by David Baldacci. Will Robie, the government’s ace assassin, learns that his estranged father is charged with murder, but his investigation is unwelcome.
Paperback nonfiction
- DEAD WAKE, by Erik Larson. The tragic final voyage of the luxury ship Lusitania, sunk by a German submarine in 1915.
- ALEXANDER HAMILTON, by Ron Chernow. First published in 2004, this biography of a founding father was turned into the Broadway hip-hop musical Hamilton.
- THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
- H IS FOR HAWK, by Helen Macdonald. A grief-stricken British woman decides to raise a goshawk, a fierce bird that is notoriously difficult to tame.
- I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and teenage activist recounts her path to learning.