Best-sellers
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 WHISTLER by John Grisham. A whistle-blower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the mob and Indian casinos.
CROSS THE LINE by James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross and his wife Bree team up to catch a killer causing chaos in Washington, D.C.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
NO MAN’S LAND by David Baldacci. John Puller, a special agent with the Army, searches for the truth about his mother, who disappeared 30 years ago.
SMALL GREAT THINGS by Jodi Picoult. A medical crisis entangles a black nurse, a white supremacist father and a white lawyer.
THE CHEMIST by Stephenie Meyer. A specialist in chemically controlled torture, on the run from her former employers, takes on one last job.
NIGHT SCHOOL by Lee Child. Jack Reacher, still in the Army, becomes involved in an investigation with elite agents from the FBI and CIA.
TOM CLANCY TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE by Mark Greaney. Jack Ryan Jr., working for a secret organization, seeks to prevent complicated terrorist strikes set in motion by a hacker. Clancy died in 2013.
THE WRONG SIDE OF GOODBYE by Michael Connelly. Detective Harry Bosch aids a billionaire in search of a possible heir.
Nonfiction
PRINCESS DIARIST by Carrie Fisher. Recollections of life on the set of the first Star Wars movie by the actress and writer, who died in December.
HILLBILLY ELEGY by J. D. Vance. A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working class through his childhood in the Rust Belt.
THE BOOK OF JOY by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams. A discussion between two spiritual leaders about how to find joy in the face of suffering.
THE UNDOING PROJECT by Michael Lewis Norton. How psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky upended assumptions about the decision-making process and invented the field of behavioral economics.
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.
THE MAGNOLIA STORY by Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with Mark Dagostino. The lives of the couple who star in the HGTV show Fixer Upper.
BORN TO RUN by Bruce Springsteen. The singer-songwriter’s autobiography.
SETTLE FOR MORE by Megyn Kelly. The former anchor of Fox News’ The Kelly File discusses the personal and professional challenges she has faced.
TALKING AS FAST AS I CAN by Lauren Graham. Essays by the star of Gilmore Girls (both the original and the mini-series) and Parenthood.
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.
Paperback fiction
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur. A collection of poetry about love, loss, trauma and healing.
A DOG’S PURPOSE by W. Bruce Cameron. From stray mutt to golden-haired puppy, a dog finds himself reincarnated over the years as he searches for his purpose in life.
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.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins. A psychological thriller set in the environs of London is full of complications and betrayals.
THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho. A Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
Paperback nonfiction
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly. The story of four of the black female mathematicians whose work at then-segregated NASA was key to launching John Glenn into space.
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.
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman. How we make choices in our business and personal lives.
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.
QUIET by Susan Cain. Introverts, approximately one-third of the population, are undervalued in American society.