Fiction
TWO BY TWO by Nicholas Sparks. A man who became a single father when his marriage and business collapsed learns to take a chance on a new love.
THE TRESPASSER by Tana French. In the sixth Dublin Murder Squad novel, Detective Antoinette Conway confronts a case that is more complicated than it appears.
COMMONWEALTH by Ann Patchett. Five decades in the lives of two families—parents, children, siblings, stepchildren—remade by divorce.
WOMAN OF GOD by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. The story of a woman doctor who, after a life of service and suffering, becomes a Catholic priest.
HOME by Harlan Coben. Myron Bolitar and his friend Win locate a boy who was kidnapped 10 years earlier; the 11th Myron Bolitar novel.
TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT by Maria Semple. A calamitous day in the life of a cynical Seattle transplant from the author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette.
TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS by Debbie Macomber. A woman starts a blog about her attempt to reach out to a grumpy neighbor at Christmastime, and finds herself falling for him.
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.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
WINTER STORMS by Elin Hilderbrand. In the final book of the Winter Street trilogy, a huge snowstorm bearing down on Nantucket threatens the Quinn family’s Christmas after a year of significant events.
Nonfiction
BORN TO RUN by Bruce Springsteen. The singer-songwriter’s autobiography.
KILLING THE RISING SUN by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of The O’Reilly Factor recounts the final years of World War II.
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.
LOVE WARRIOR by Glennon Doyle Melton. After her husband confesses to multiple infidelities, a woman who has overcome bulimia and alcoholism struggles to grow—and so does he.
THE GIRL WITH THE LOWER BACK TATTOO by Amy Schumer. Humorous personal essays by the comedian, actor and writer.
HERO OF THE EMPIRE by Candice Millard. Young Winston Churchill’s adventures in Africa during the Boer War, including an escape from captivity in 1899.
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES by Peter Wohlleben. A forester presents scientific research on the way trees interact with one another.
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.
WHEN NOBODY WAS WATCHING by Carli Lloyd and Wayne Coffey. How the champion soccer player turned her career around in 2003.
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America.
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.
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.
MISSING by James Patterson and Kathryn Fox. Craig Gisto and his high-tech team investigate the disappearance of a research company CEO and race to find a stolen baby.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur. A collection of poetry about love, loss, trauma and healing.
THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M. L. Stedman. An Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife decide to keep a baby who has washed ashore.
Paperback nonfiction
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.
THE WITCHES by Stacy Schiff. An account of the Salem witch trials of 1692, which resulted in the hanging of 19 people.
SULLY by Chesley B. Sullenberger III and Jeffrey Zaslow. A memoir by the pilot who performed the successful emergency landing of a plane with 155 passengers on the Hudson River in 2009.
YOU CAN’T TOUCH MY HAIR by Phoebe Robinson. Essays by a stand-up comic on topics like race, gender, dating and feminism.
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT by Daniel James Brown. The story of American rowers who pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.