BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

  1. 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.
  2. THE BEAST, by J. R. Ward. Book 14 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
  3. THE NEST, by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. Siblings in a dysfunctional New York family must grapple with a reduced inheritance.
  4. 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.
  5. THE 14TH COLONY, by Steve Berry. Covert operative Cotton Malone must thwart an agent loyal to the former Soviet Union.
  6. MILLER’S VALLEY, by Anna Quindlen. A young woman comes of age during an assault on the land and the people she loves.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. THE SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR, by Helen Simonson. Life in Sussex, England, at the beginning of World War I.

Nonfiction

  1. THE RAINBOW COMES AND GOES, by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt. Mother and son discuss their relationship and difficult family history.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. THE THIRD WAVE, by Steve Case. In the current era, entrepreneurs will use technology to revolutionize various sectors of the economy.
  5. 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.
  6. LOOK ME IN THE EYE, by John Elder Robison. A life with Asperger’s syndrome; first published in 2007.
  7. DEAD WAKE, by Erik Larson. The last voyage of the Lusitania, the passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo in 1915.
  8. DISRUPTED, by Dan Lyons. A longtime tech writer, age 52, takes a job at a startup called HubSpot.
  9. 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.
  10. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America.

Paperback fiction

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE, by Jessica Knoll. The life of a successful New York magazine writer is shaken when secrets from her past are revealed.
  5. 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

  1. DEAD WAKE, by Erik Larson. The tragic final voyage of the luxury ship Lusitania, sunk by a German submarine in 1915.
  2. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, by Ron Chernow. First published in 2004, this biography of a founding father was turned into the Broadway hip-hop musical Hamilton.
  3. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
  4. 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.
  5. I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and teenage activist recounts her path to learning.

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