Fiction
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
INSIDIOUS by Catherine Coulter. Two cases—one concerning an attempted poisoning in Washington and another about the hunt for a serial killer in Los Angeles—are the focus of Coulter’s 20th FBI thriller.
TRULY MADLY GUILTY by Liane Moriarty. Tense turning points for three couples at a backyard barbecue gone wrong.
BULLSEYE by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. While the president of the United States is in New York to meet with his Russian counterpart, Detective Michael Bennett must stop a team of assassins.
THREE SISTERS, THREE QUEENS by Philippa Gregory. The ties and conflicts among three royal women in the court of Henry VIII.
THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware. A travel writer on a cruise is certain she has heard a body thrown overboard, but no one believes her.
SWEET TOMORROWS by Debbie Macomber. The journeys of the characters at the Rose Harbor Inn come to a close in this last book of the series.
THE BLACK WIDOW by Daniel Silva.Israeli art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon recruits a doctor from Jerusalem to help capture a secret ISIS terrorist in France.
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 GIRLS by Emma Cline. In the summer of 1969, a California teenager is drawn to a Manson-like cult.
Nonfiction
HILLBILLY ELEGY by J. D. Vance. A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working class through his own childhood in the Rust Belt.
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.
ARMAGEDDON by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. The political strategist offers a game plan for how to defeat Hillary Clinton.
HILLARY’S AMERICA by Dinesh D’Souza. The conservative author and pundit warns of disaster if Hillary Clinton is elected president.
CRISIS OF CHARACTER by Gary J. Byrne with Grant M. Schmidt. A former Secret Service officer claims to have witnessed scandalous behavior by the Clintons.
LIARS by Glenn Beck. The author says progressive politicians gain power and control by exploiting Americans’ fears.
HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter. The libretto of the award-winning musical, with backstage photos, a production history and interviews with the cast.
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America.
GRIT by Angela Duckworth. A psychologist says passion and perseverance are the keys to success.
AMERICAN HEIRESS by Jeffrey Toobin. The story of Patty Hearst’s kidnapping in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army, her crimes and her trial.
Paperback fiction
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in the environs of London is full of complications and betrayals.
SEE ME by Nicholas Sparks. A couple in love are threatened by secrets from the past.
AFTER YOU by Jojo Moyes. In a sequel to Me Before You, Louisa Clark tries to put her life back together after the death of Will Traynor.
A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman. An angry old curmudgeon gets new next-door neighbors, and things are about to change for all of them.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur. A collection of poetry about love, loss, trauma and healing.
Paperback nonfiction
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT by Daniel James Brown. American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON by Ron Chernow. First published in 2004, this biography of a founding father was turned into the Pulitzer Prize-winning hip-hop musical Hamilton.
OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed.
THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls. The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved from one bleak place to another.
IT GETS WORSE by Shane Dawson. More humorous essays from the film director, Internet personality and author of I Hate Myselfie chronicle some mortifying moments in his life.