BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

  1. NYPD RED 4, by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. Detective Zach Gordon and his partner, members of an elite task force that protects the rich and famous, pursue a cold-blooded killer.

  2. BLUE, by Danielle Steel. A woman whose life has been shattered befriends a homeless boy.

  3. MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON, by Elizabeth Strout. A woman struggles with memories of her impoverished and disturbing childhood and its effect on the present as she attempts to reconcile with her mother.

  4. 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.

  5. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in the environs of London.

  6. THE BANDS OF MOURNING, by Brandon Sanderson. A sequel to Shadows of Self; a Mistborn novel.

  7. 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.

  8. THE FORCE AWAKENS, by Alan Dean Foster. A new threat arises; an adaptation of the screenplay of the latest Star Wars movie.

  9. THE SWANS OF FIFTH AVENUE, by Melanie Benjamin. A novel based on the friendship between Truman Capote and Babe Paley and her coterie, which began in the 1950s and ended 20 years later in scandal.

  10. ROGUE LAWYER, by John Grisham. Attorney Sebastian Rudd hates injustice and the system and defends unpopular clients.

Nonfiction

  1. 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.

  2. DARK MONEY, by Jane Mayer. An account of how the Koch brothers and other super-wealthy donors deployed their money to change American politics.

  3. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America; winner of the National Book Award.

  4. THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING, by Bill Bryson. An American expatriate travels around his adopted country, Britain.

  5. THE NAME OF GOD IS MERCY, by Pope Francis with Andrea Tornielli. In a conversation with a Vatican reporter, the pontiff explores the cornerstone of his faith.

  6. THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE TRIPOLI PIRATES, by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. The war against the Barbary pirates in 1801.

  7. KILLING REAGAN, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of The O’Reilly Factor recounts the events surrounding the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981.

  8. BEING MORTAL, by Atul Gawande. The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life and how they can do better.

  9. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, by David Mc-Cullough. The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.

  10. CURE, by Jo Marchant. A science writer assesses the influential role of the mind in our overall health.

Paperback fiction

  1. THE REVENANT, by Michael Punke. Left for dead after a mauling, the master tracker Hugh Glass is consumed by a singular desire for revenge.

  2. THE MARTIAN, by Andy Weir. Separated from his crew, an astronaut embarks on a quest to stay alive on Mars.

  3. MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, by Elena Ferrante.The first installment in the author’s Neapolitan series about the lifelong friendship between two women.

  4. A LITTLE LIFE, by Hanya Yanagihara. Four college friends, one with a traumatic past, move to New York in search of fame and fortune.

  5. BROOKLYN, by Colm Toibin. An unsophisticated young Irishwoman leaves her home for New York in the 1950s.

Paperback nonfiction

  1. 13 HOURS, by Mitchell Zuckoff with members of the Annex Security Team. An account by American security personnel of their battle against the terrorists during the attack on the State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.

  2. THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight.

  3. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.

  4. I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and teenage activist recounts her path to learning.

  5. THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, by Erik Larson. A story of how an architect and a serial killer were linked by the World’s Fair of 1893.

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