Fiction
APPRENTICE IN DEATH by J. D. Robb. Lt. Eve Dallas of the NYPD calls on the technological expertise of her husband, Roarke, when three skaters at Wollman Rink are shot by a sniper. By Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
RAZOR GIRL by Carl Hiaasen. Ex-cop Andrew Yancy from Bad Monkey gets involved in a kidnapping gone wrong.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
A GREAT RECKONING by Louise Penny. An instructor at the police academy is found murdered, perhaps by one of the cadets favored by Armand Gamache, the retired homicide chief of the Sûreté du Québec.
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.
RUSHING WATERS by Danielle Steel. Six people cope with a hurricane in New York City.
HERE I AM by Jonathan Safran Foer. Private and public crises converge for four generations of a Jewish family.
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles. A Russian count undergoes 30 years of house arrest in the Metropol hotel across from the Kremlin.
TRULY MADLY GUILTY by Liane Moriarty. Three couples at a backyard barbecue gone wrong.
DOWNFALL by J. A. Jance. Joanna Brady, sheriff of Cochise County, must cope with pregnancy, the recent deaths of her mother and stepfather, a coming election, and the mysterious discovery of the bodies of two women at the base of a nearby peak. The 17th novel in a series.
Nonfiction
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.
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.
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America.
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.
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly Morrow. The story, based in part on interviews, of the black women mathematicians who were hired as “computers” by the precursor of NASA during World War II.
BEST. STATE. EVER by Dave Barry. Florida may be the Joke State, but Barry explains why he loves it.
ARMAGEDDON by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. The political strategist offers a game plan for how to defeat Hillary Clinton.
THE PIGEON TUNNEL by John le Carré. A memoir by the great spy novelist.
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.
THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M. L. Stedman. An Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife decide to keep a baby who has washed ashore.
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.
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.
Paperback nonfiction
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.
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 BOYS IN THE BOAT by Daniel James Brown. American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson. A law professor and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.
THE NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander. A law professor takes aim at the “war on drugs” and its impact on black men.